Life, 1911-12-14 · page 7 of 40
Life — December 14, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical pieces: 1. **"Daughter Laughter"**: A brief joke about a man amused by his daughter's wild laughter, establishing her as an uninhibited character. 2. **"Took a Heart Capsule"**: Commentary on the 1920s New York election, noting that "Heart" capsules (apparently a medicinal product) were sometimes useful for political emergencies—a veiled reference to political expedience or desperate remedies. 3. **"The Lawyers and the Sherman Law"**: Satirizes lawyers' inability to give clients definitive legal advice regarding the Sherman Antitrust Act, mocking their tendency toward uncertainty with phrases like "I don't know." The large illustration depicts a domestic scene where a man hides behind a tree while a woman stands on a porch, captioned "I TOLD HIM IT WASN'T TO USE TO ARGUE WITH A WOMAN"—satirizing gender relations and the futility of arguing with women, a common joke trope of the era.
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Daugbter Laughter ITH iereasing amusement he laughed Because of his daughter’s wild laughter; He said: “Though I seem to be daughed, I'm sure that my daughter is daughter.” Took a Hearst Capsule HE gist of the fate election in New York was that a little more Hearst seemed to the voters an expedient alleviation of so much Murphy. Some very dangerous drugs are sometimes useful in medicine, and some very dangerous men come in handy, sometimes, in political emergencies The Lawyers and the Sherman Law T is likely, human nature being what it is, that the reason why the top lawyers have felt so particularly bad about the Sherman law has been that they have been unable to give their clients such assurances as they wished to receive, or such answers as were adapted to make legal advice re- spected. An opinion that says “ You can’t” js not as val- unable to a client as one that says “ You can,” and of all answers that it is hard tor a conscientious lawyer to charge for, the hardest must be, “I don't know.” W HO would have thought that China would wake up on Christmas morning and find a Republic in her stocking ? Mf Hn Wit WMT, P) ‘ll “Tt TOLD HIM IT WASN'T NO USE TO ARGUE WITH A WOMAN” y | 1 cae fo comicbooks.com