Life, 1913-02-20 · page 36 of 48
Life — February 20, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with some humorous content**, typical of Life magazine's format. The main humor pieces are brief anecdotes: 1. **"A Slight Error"** — A historical story about King Louis XI of France mistakenly ordering his provost to execute the wrong person (a monk instead of an officer). The satire mocks bureaucratic incompetence and blind obedience to authority. 2. **"Queer Fellows"** — An Oxford character laments that modern undergraduates are idle and don't hunt or fish like their predecessors, speaking in exaggerated dialect. It's gentle mockery of nostalgic complaints about youth. 3. **Two brief jokes** about diamond rings, baby naming, and ghosts on payday—typical period humor about courtship, family disputes, and pay schedules. The page is dominated by **product advertisements**: Heisey glassware, Vogue fashion forecasts, Rad-Bridge playing cards, Cortez cigars, and Chartruse liqueur. These reflect early 20th-century consumer goods and leisure interests.
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LIFE: WARE The Heisey patented sanitary Syrup Jug is Easy to fill—Easy to clean—always inviting and refreshingly appetizing in appear- ance. The patented cover snaps off or on instantly. Heisey’s()Glassware allows you the choice of many orna- mental as well as useful pieces. It is for sale by the best crockery and department stores, An interesting book of designs will be sent on request. A. H. Heisey & Co. Dept 62 Newark O. Defined Again Love is what makes a man spend ninety dollars on a diamond ring for a girl while he tries to keep warm in last summer's low-cut shoes. —Cincinnati Enquirer. “Have you decided on a name for the baby as yet?” “Not as yet. My family has named one member of a commission and my wife's family has named another. These two are to agree on a third and the three of them are to decide on a name.” —Lonisville Courier-Journal. NNNNKANN: A Slight Error Louis XI. of France, one day observ- ing among the crowd who assembled to sce him dine, an officer whom he disliked, made a private sign to Tristan L’Herm- ite, his grand provost, to put him out of the way. Tristan, well accustomed to the signal, but unluckily mistaking the man alluded to, accosted a well-fed monk, who stood in the same line with the captain, allured him into the palace yard, thrust him into a sack, and threw him into the Seine. Next day Louis hearing that the pro- scribed officer had been seen posting towards inders, reproached Tristan with this negleet “To Flanders!” said the grand pre- vost; “your Majesty must be in an error. The monk has got half way to Rouen by this time. I sent him adrift, tied up in a sacl “What mon “Him your Majesty pointed at.” “Hah!” said the King, with his usual oath, “you have drowned me the best priest in the kingdom. It cannot be helped now, so we will have a half a dozen masses said for his soul; but it was that dog of a captain, not the poor monk, that I meant.” Queer Fellows One very well-known character at Ox- ford used to say that modern undergrad- uates were sadly inferior to their prede- cessors, who had constantly employed him when they went out with gun or rod. “There's a very idle set of gentlemen at the University nowadays. They never shoots; they never goes a-fishing. They does nothing—nothing but read, read, read, from morning till night —Tit-Bits. ne: Why do they say that the ghost walks on pay day? Sreve: Because that's the day our spirits rise—Cincinnati Enquirer. AM Psi MMA v AAA TARND FORECAST SPRING FASHIONS Now on Sale At All Newsdealers fae carries more advertisis oe edvertiving, than ony | VELOUR PLAYING CARDS Hemseisch and backs patented. Four coiers each: red bive, brown, green. Zic per pack. Gol edge. i8e._ Dealers every where or sent postpaid on receipt of price. Send for Catalog lea. of Bridge. A: & CO., 144 Peart 8. New York YNANNAANKANANAN ANNAN! Go FOR , 23 CIGARS “MADE AT KEY WESTHE HAS STOOD THE TEST OF AGES AND IS STILL THE FINEST CORDIAL EXTANT At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafes. ‘0.. 45 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Sole Agents for United States. 388 rr SSSSNNNSNSSNNNNSNSAN HNAANSANNANA HANNA NNN NN HANNA NUNN SNH NNAANNANANANANNNLABANKANNNAN: SNXKNANAKANA NANA NAN NNN MEN NN NNNN NH NAN LN NN NNN HNN NHNHN WN HN VN HN: comicbooks.com