Life, 1911-11-09 · page 30 of 44
Life — November 9, 1911 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three brief humorous anecdotes typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's satirical humor: **"A Fair Guess"**: A child's confused response to a math question—satire of vague teaching methods. **"The National Game"**: A man compares baseball to household objects and marriage, suggesting baseball's domestic familiarity. The joke likely plays on marriage's complications (diamonds, struggles, difficulty "getting home"). **"Her Only Correction"**: Dark humor about a widow remarrying before her late husband's monument is erected. She requests the inscription end with "Alone"—ironically, she's no longer alone, making the addition grimly comedic. The page also contains period advertisements: Grosvenor's Fir-Felt-O slippers and Donchester dress shirts that "will not bulge." These ads reflect early 1900s consumer culture and men's fashion concerns about appearance. The cartoons represent Life's formula: brief, domestic-focused jokes targeting educated middle-class readers familiar with home life, courtship, and social conventions.
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A Fair Guess Said the teacher to Johnnie, “ What is half of one-third? And John, unaccustomed to such Vague things and obscure, “T don't be so awfully much.” Woman's Home Companion. The National Game Aa SS Her Only Correction A young widow went to select a monu- = eS ment for her recently deceased husband. After duc consideration she picked out a stone and ordered the following in- jaced upon it: 18 MORE THAN 1 CAN BEAK ‘The man who was to erect the monu- ment was a little tardy in doing it and the widow remarried before it was done. This fact worried him, as he feared that he might have to change the wording of the inscription. So he called upon the lady and told her that he was now ready to do his work, and after some hesita- tion asked her if she wished to change the wording of the inscription in any way. She politely replied: “No, just as I gave it, only add at the end the word “Alone. "—Ladics’ Home Journal. She was a bright girl and her escort, who was also her intended, lighted to find how quickly she grasped the points of the game. She got on so well that he ventured a light witticism on the subject. “Baseball reminds me of the hold,” he remarked; “there's the plate, the batter, the fowls, the flies, ¢ “And it reminds me of marriag retorted; “first the diamond wher was de- house- All Net In the bankruptey court I once heard a witness asked the amount of his gross income. “Me gross income, is it? I'd have ye know that I h I'm a fishe: is all net,” was the astonishing reply Sure an’ no gross man, an’ me income hits, then the men going out, © difficulty they have income. And he sat and thought. -Boston Transcript Al's ow the Haz Loves ME, ard); “ site Sie Loves M + published every T Possessions. $5.00 a yeary to Canada, date of publication, No eantribution 1 for the tus or mancrerurn fw ‘. Lire is for sale by all Newsdeslers € International News Company, Bream Ra Ask Your Dealer for. GROSVENOR’S ._ Brentano's, 37 Ave. de l'Ope! F E.C., Leadon; 148 Rue da Fasoun 2 efmany. Scutrarapten FIR-FELT-O Just the thing to slip on for breakfast in the morning. It is made of fine all wool Firfelt felt with velvet finish, silk bound trimming, leather sole and cushion inner-sole. It is supplied in all delicate shades and repre- sents the perfection of daintiness, style and com- fort requisite in the boudoir, home or bedroom slipper. If your dealer cannot supply you, send us his name and we will send the slippers upon receipt of price, $1.50. State © and width of street shoe. Write Dept. I for Style Book. Worcester Slipper Company J.P. GROSVENOR, Prop. WORCESTER, MASS. Orw.ereracomy, Te DYONCHESTER These men are equally well dressed—equally refined in appearance. The difference is that one has a bulging bosom shirt, and the other wears the DONCHESTER, the Cluett Dress Shirt that will not bulge. $2 do $3, Send for Donchester booklet comicbooks Mean