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This page from Life combines satirical humor with advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazines. **Main Content:** The "Don't Miss This" piece satirizes the confusing logistics of mothers and daughters separating—a humorous complaint about the emotional complexity of family separation. The joke relies on wordplay between "Mrs." and "Miss" to create deliberately tangled scenarios. **Other Humor Pieces:** - "An Adaptable Prodigal" recounts a true anecdote about a North Carolina man who inherited money multiple times, squandered it repeatedly, then developed a coping strategy: accepting his poverty. - Three pieces about romantic/marital love ("Rational Love," "In the Singular," "An Endearing Act") offer witty observations and punchlines about courtship versus marriage, satirizing both romantic idealism and domestic routine. **Advertisements:** Harris Oils (motor lubricants) and Abbott's Bitters dominate the page visually, representing typical commercial content of the era. The overall tone is light domestic satire targeting middle-class concerns about family, love, and marriage.

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“LIFE: Don’t Miss This Ifa woman has one daughter, who goes away, the Mrs. misses the Miss and the Miss misses the Mrs. If it is two daughters and both are away the Mrs. misses the Misscs and the Misses miss the Mrs. If she has three daughters and two are at one place and one at another the Mrs. misses the Misses and the Miss misses the Mrs, and the Misses. If she has four daughters and two are at one place while the other two are away from home, and separate, the Mrs, misses the Miss and the Misses and the Miss, the Miss and the Misses miss the Mrs., and the Miss misses the Miss and the Misses and:the Mrs. —Ladies’ Home Journal. A WISE MAN'S MAPPIN SELT; ALL OTMER MAPPLN, FICIAL. Is IN MIM S 1S SUPER- Moliére. Ideal Hot Weather Lubricants HARRIS On account of their purity and freedom from soot- producing carbon, they insure a cool, clean and efficient motor. HARRIS OILS are SERVICE OILS—HIGH DUTY OILS. They are refined from Premium Pennsyl- vania Crude stock by a process evolved from 28 years of experience. “A Little Goes A Long Way and Every Drop Counts."” Good garages carry “America’s Leading Lubricants.” A. W. HARRIS OIL CO. 326 S. Water St., Providence, R. 1. 143 No. Wabash Ave... Chicago, Ill. makes an ideal appetizing tonic, Beets in stampa CW. Abbott An Adaptable Prodigal A man who lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, fell heir to about fifteen thou- sand dollars and immediately spent it in high living. A second and a third good- sized sum of money came to him; and cach time he played prodigal son until he was without funds. One day Josephus Daniels, now Secre- tary of the Navy, met this man on the street in Raleigh. The prodigal was in rags, looked hungry and was evidently in very hard luck. “Tt seems to me that you must have a tough time,” said Daniels. “How do you stand it after the good living. luxu- ries and fine clothes you have been ac- customed to?” “Mr. Daniel the man replied. “Tl tell you how I do it: I have made ar- rangements to get along without what I can't get.”"—Saturday Evening Post. Rational Love The rational rather than the romantic view of marriage is the one most in favor with the young people of the twentieth century,” said Dr. H. Lucas Wentworth, the well-known eugenics ex- pert, in an address in Cleveland. “The rational view will make for hap- picr marriages. And this rational view is beautifully illustrated in two questions— a little dialogue—running thus : “*Will you always love me?* “Will you always be lovable?"" —Chicago Record-Herald. In the Singular George Ade, at the Chicago Athletic Club, listened to a youth's passionate panegyric on love. Wait till you've married her,” said Mr. Ade. “Wait till you've been atar- tied to her fifteen or twenty years. Then you'll be like Sinnickson. “ Sinnickson’s wife looked up from a novel the other evening and said, dreamily : “'T've been thinking, dear, courtship—those ecstatic days!’ “Humph,’ said Sinnickson, shaking his fat, bald head, ‘that cestatic daze, you mean.’” —Washington Star. An Endearing Act Wire (pleadingly): I'm afraid, Jack, you do not love me any more—anyway, not as well as you used to. Husmaxo: Why? Wire: Because you always let me get up to light the fire now. Husrano: Nonsense, my love! Your getting up to light the fire makes me love you all the more. —New York Call. of our Gane: He claims he is a descendant from a great family. Steve: Yes, and he is still deseend- ing.—Cincinnati Enquirer, A teaspoonful of Abbott's Bitters with your G Mica Sample of bitters by tt & Co, Baltimore, Mad. Froit mail, EVERYMAN Copyright, 1912 Essential in the Dress of re a Gentleman is th VintZup Holds Your Sock Smooth as Your Skin & and is well worth asking for by name. It is the mr thoroughbred garter for the man who is careful about Tl the details of good dress and mindful of his comfort. ed Lisle, 25cents — Everywher Silk, 50 cents mi GEORCE FROST CO., Makers, BOSTON an ARE YOU GOING a TO MOVE? Io If you are, or if you have done = so recently, don’t forget to om notify LIFE of your changed ar address. ad The Post-Office will not forward th a periodical as it will a letter. pe Therefore each week’s delay th means a copy of LIFE lost. sa Don’t wait until you have — moved before you notify -us. When ordering a change give the old as well as the new address. Notice must reach us by Thurs- day to affect the following week’s issue. Subse: may inion yey ent 17 West Thirty-first Street New York comicbooks.com