Life, 1911-12-07 · page 20 of 112
Life — December 7, 1911 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **primarily advertisements** (Waltham watches, 20th Century Limited train service) alongside literary content rather than political cartoons. The main satirical content is a humorous piece titled **"Summer and Winter"**—a school debate where students list contrasting activities. The joke relies on children's earnest, overlapping arguments (you can fly kites in summer; you can use pickerel traps in winter) that circle back to similar conclusions. It's gentle domestic satire about youthful debate logic. Below that is **"Envious Vanity,"** a cautionary poem about a camel who asked Allah for horns but lost his ears instead—a moral fable warning against coveting others' attributes. The final anecdote satirizes corporal punishment: a politician defends flogging children, claiming it helped him. When someone asks "It cured you, sir?"—the implication being he still needed "curing" (suggesting the beating didn't work)—it's gentle mockery of the speaker's logic. These are light, non-political humor pieces typical of Life's social satire.
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