Life, 1912-11-14 · page 42 of 44
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements and book listings**, not political satire. The notable humor appears in a brief anecdote titled "Her Natural Protector": A woman tells her friend about a frightening nighttime incident—she heard noise, turned on lights, and found a man's legs protruding from under her bed. The friend assumes it's a burglar. The punchline: it was actually her husband, who had also gotten up to investigate the noise. The joke plays on **domestic gender roles of the era**: it's presented as darkly humorous that the husband is portrayed as a protective figure ("natural protector"), yet the wife found him hiding under the bed—an undignified position that undermines the masculine ideal. The humor derives from this deflation of male authority in the household. The page otherwise advertises candy, cocoa, a public-speaking correspondence course, and lists recently published books on topics ranging from Robin Hood to Egyptian history to women's advancement.
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Her Natural Protector “O Clara, we had a dreadful scare this morning; a burglar scare!" said Mrs, Fink. “ There was a frightful noise about two o'clock, and I got up. I turned on the light and looked down, to see a man's legs sticking out from under the bed. “Mercy, how dreadful! The burg- Jar’ " “No, my dear, my husband's. He had heard the noise, too.” —VYouth’s Companion. 5 Books Received Bold Robin Hood, and His Outlaw Band, by Louis Rhead. (Harper & Bros. $1.50.) Joseph Pennell’s Pictures of the Pan- ama Canal. (J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.25.) Egyptian Days, by Philip S. Marden (Houghton Mifflin’Co. $3.00.) A Picked Compan: y Mary Hallock Foote. (Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.30.) A History of the Presidency. by Ed- ward Stanwood, Litt.D. (Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.75.) A Doctor's Table-Talk, by James G. Mumford. (Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.25.) Forfeit, by Clara Lathrop Strong. (Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.25.) Licky and His Gang, by Grace § well Mason. (Houghton Miffiin $1.00.) The Advance of Woman, by Jane Johnstone Christie. (J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.) The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth, by Isador H. Coriat, M.D, (Moffatt, Yard & Co. 75 cents.) Why I Left My Husband, by Virginia T. Van De Water. (Moffatt, Yard & Co. $1.20.) The Seer, by Perley Poore Sheehan. (Moffatt, Yard & Co. $1.20.) Noted Speeches of Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Henry Ci by Lilli. Marie Bri; (Moffatt, Yard & Co. 75 cents.) The Woollen Dress, by Henry Bor- deaux. (Duffield & Co. $1.25.) Sex Educetion, by Ira S. Wile, M.S., M.D. (Duffield & Co. $1.00.) True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World, by A. W. Greely, Major- General, U. . . (Chas. Scribner's Sons. $1.50.) 15 Minutes a Day!”.,,. 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A Stitch in Time, by a Roosevelt Hos- pital Graduate Nurse and a Grateful Patient. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Left in Charge, by Victor White- church, (Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.20.) The Blackberry Pickers, by Evelyn St Leger. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.) The Soddy, by Sarah Comstock. (Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.30.) |. Object—Matrimony, by — Montague Glass. (Doubleday, Page & Co. $0 cents.) Madame Mésange, by F. Berkeley Smith. (Doubleday, Page & Co. $9 cents.) The Fall of Ulysses, by Charles Dwight Willard. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.00.) In the Courts of Memory, by Madame De Hegermann Lindencrone. (Harper & Bros, $2.00.) comicbookreeh