Life, 1913-04-10 · page 32 of 48
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This page is primarily **advertising with brief humorous anecdotes**, typical of Life's mixed content format. The top section, "Our Foolish Contemporaries," contains short jokes mocking everyday pretension: 1. **"A Linguist"**: A Black barber-shop porter gives a speech using many "big words," then is caught looking them up in a dictionary—not to use them again, but to *translate* his own speech back into plain English. The joke satirizes the gap between attempted sophistication and actual understanding. 2. **"Too Much for Him"**: A college student failed entrance exams, prompting his father to refuse funding. The son threatened to quit school and work at home instead—whereupon Dad suddenly agreed college was "cheaper." This mocks parental economic priorities over education. The remainder consists of product advertisements: Old Town Canoes, Blue-jay Corn Plasters, Egyptian Deities cigarettes, and Chicago Pennant Company leather goods. These ads were Life's revenue source. No political cartoons appear on this page; it's a hybrid advertising/humor compilation typical of early 20th-century magazines.
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