Life, 1912-05-23 · page 33 of 44
Life — May 23, 1912 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **"A Love Letter"**: A genteel parody of grammatically-correct courtship. A country schoolmaster proposes marriage using elaborate grammatical terminology ("conjunction," "subjunctive," "dative"). The joke is the absurd formality and pretension of expressing affection through linguistic jargon—satirizing overly intellectual or affected speech in romantic contexts. **"The Literary Courtship"**: A brief comic snippet about a couple who shared literary interests, now interested in practical home-building, mocking romantic idealism versus real-world concerns. **"In Line for a Raise"**: A man jokes about sensing wolves surrounding him—revealing he once opened dining-room doors at a hotel, comparing the sensation to feeling threatened. This is mild workplace humor. The page also features substantial **car and correspondence-school advertisements**, indicating this is a commercial magazine issue mixing editorial humor with paid promotions. No specific political references or caricatures are evident.
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. bottles A Set of These 1 Aluminum Tumblers 4 Cups Bactosed in 1 for $1.00 Prepaid Fach eup holds atx ounces and the four nest within Each other: beld saugly by a collar sad Gust proot cover, Highly polished. strong and light. Unequaled for automobile use, Nepales) ae wale Philadelphia Agente Wanted A Love Letter (From a Country Schoolmaster to the Lady of His Afections) Dear Madam: If there by yet no proposition toward a conjunction with you, be pleased to accept of this interjection of my pre- tences; for I do pronouns ad verbum, that I desire to be adjective to you in all cases, for positively I declare that, comparatively speaking, I should be superlatively happy might I engender with you in all moods and tenses. 1 hope you will not think me so singular as not to desire to have the plural num- ter in my family, or that I am too masculine to be neuter in regard to the feminine; wherefore, dear Madam, let us have our affections in common of two. Far be it from you to decline this conjugation, though I am not the first person, nor the second, nor the third, that have solicited you to be subjunctive to his love. I presume you will not be in the imperative, whilst I pass from the optative to the potential, and that you will permit me to make a conjunction with you. This will make a participle of happiness, if you please actively to give your voice to be passive herein; he you but supine, and I'll be deponent. Thus you will find it the optative part of my soul to be a lawful concord with the genitive; my whole income shall be a dative to you for the present; nothing shall be accusative against you for the future, and your dear name shall ever be vocative till Death, the great ablative of all things, part us. 1am, dear Madam, Your most obsequious adorer, Pauw Pepacocve. A and _B Four or Five- passenger Newport mod. $2750. Fully equip! THe UNIVERSITY OF Gncace HOME -x< orrespondence-S TT dy | ept. wots "O50 thay thas do park werk for STUDY free eens soth Year U.of C. (Div ¥) Chicago. Ill. “They started The Champion Light Car One Mercer owner has said: “If my car had ccst $5000, it couldn't possibly be any better.” And prior to his purchase of a Mercer this man owned several of the highest priced cars manu- factured. When you geta Mercer you are not buying a car with a “social prestige’ reputation only, but you get real motor car value from start to finish. From the viewpoint of power, speed, strength, durability, flexibility, graceful appearance, and easy-riding qualities, the Mercer measures up to the standard you have expected of cars sell- ing at $4000 and over. The secret of Mercer success in competition is an ever regard for quality in material and workmanship. Each and every car produced has the same ‘‘make good” qualities as the famous Mercer Raceabouts. Catalogue on Request MERCER AUTOMOBILE COMPANY 1400 Whitehead Road’ Trenton, N.J. New York - 1802 Broadway Philadelphia. “- 620 North Broad St The Literary Courtship in a purely platonic * together.” "|“THE NEAREST GARAGE” tory of garages compiled for ‘sulomobiliste. covering the ter- ‘Washington, D.C. Invalu- able to uhe autoie, t botn in tne cliy and country, ene 266; 40 publisher for copy of directory. GEORGE T HOPEWEL! blisher 3S/Broedway Fiusbiag, N.Y. “Now they are interested in a book that tells how to build a $1,000 house.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. R surrounded by wolves?” No; but I know the sensation. I used to open the dining-room doors at a summer hotel."—Washington Herald. 1085 IN LINE FOR A RAISE comicbooks.com