Life, 1913-09-04 · page 30 of 40
Life — September 4, 1913 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical humor pieces and advertisements typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **"A Peacemaker"** jokes about a boy running to prevent a fight—he's one of the combatants himself, creating absurdist humor about conflict resolution. **"A Distant Prospect"** satirizes tourist guides' exaggeration, with a Scottish guide claiming he can see farther than America—even to the moon. **"London Suffragettes"** references the contemporary women's suffrage movement. A character dismisses suffragettes as weak for needing "dynamite" to "subdue a few men," mocking both the activists and their opponents' inflammatory rhetoric about bombing campaigns. **"In London"** satirizes suffragettes again: a neighbor's child asks to borrow a bomb-recipe because the mother's attempt "only smelled bad and wouldn't bust"—dark humor about actual bombings by militant suffragists. **"Discovered"** is a humorous piece suggesting ancient complaints about corruption and disrespectful children, implying human problems are timeless. The page reflects pre-WWI anxieties about women's activism and political violence.
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A Peacemaker The proprictor of the leading drug store in a small Kentucky town was coming out of the front door of his place not long ago, when a small boy came tearing round the corner at top gait with his head down and butted squarely into him, “Hey, kid!” demanded the druggist. “What's the matter?” “I'm tryin’ to keep“two boys from gettin’ into a fight,” panted the youngster. “Who are the boys?” asked the druggist. “I'm one. of "em." —Saturday Evening Post. A teaspoonful of Abbott's Bitters with your Grape Fru i" ideal appetizing tonic. ‘Sample of bit Cites by mail, 2 Stain stampa. CW. Abbott & Co,, Baltimore, Md. A Distant Prospect “You have a very fine view from here, my friend,” said the tourist. “Aye,” replied the guide, sometimes see a long way. “Ah, I suppose you can see America n it's clear?” “ Farther than that,” without a smile. “ What?" “Yes; if you will just wait a while you'll see the moon."—Sketch. “we can wh replied the guide, “So you don’t approve of those Lon- don suffragettes?” “don't know much about them,” re- plied Miss Cayenne; but I can’t help feeling that a woman who can’t subdue a few men without the use of dynamite is something of a failure. —Washington Star. FREE 'T@ [THIS WONDERFUL [DT DISH WASHER = FOR THIRTY DAYS This is the ‘Kitchenette Family Yishwasher—the machine | that all wash and sierilise ree hes rd by any family in a tes. No need to put your hands in ter ‘ohid. can use aad Ie Srasteed 5 Kvery Housekeeper should have one Tonce. We dam ant you to boy it ag oe dar. ht 3m yc wat tao ef easy pases pana. TF CARY-DAVIS 00, eae end te complete iafermation atout he Kitchenette Family Didvusher, wih fall (Risiare of jour tre wa oer Clhe utmost in subtle fra rance EGYPTIAN DEITIES “Che Utmost in Cigarettes” Cork Tips or Plain. it |THE BAFFLING vere PHENOMENA OF THE 20TH CENTURY PSYCHO! ws 2 Doyou wanttobe Astonished! Perplexed! —Mystified ! Then investigate this tithe Myetery. ycho are Trae. With your 60: Out volition oa your part, It will write int gent answers to your spoken Questions. Sometimes tell your most secret thoughts, give advice oa love and business draw pictures, and ‘do other woaderfal things, These ‘very interesting questions Ia psychic phenomena. Is this force magaetiso, electricity, odyc. of ts R''spirits”"? Oplalons difler, theories ce Rate arney ete, reel, een, Sree Jearat, agazioc ec. Nodhing mere Cane tor Piyebo than that i « woodertal eeleatifc PSYCHO M’F'G COMPANY (Dept. G) or. mental In London The doorbell rings. The mistress of the house answers it. A small child, the child of a near neighbor, is dis- covered on the doorstep. Tue Mistress: What is it, Cissy? Please, ma'am, mother wants to know if you'll be so kind as to lend her your recipe fr makin’ bombs. The last one she made only smelled bad and wouldn't bust ! —Cleveland Plain Dealer. 2020 Ridge Avenue, Phitadeiphia Discovered The Father of Paragraphers. Prowl- ing through a museum in Constantinople the other day, a professor from the Iowa State University noticed a curious stone and, with the intelligence common to lowans, read it at a glance, thus: We have fallen upon evil times, And the world has waxed very old and wicked Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents, Author, the King of Chaldea. Date, 3800 B. C. Then why does that excited little printer’s devil tear our copy from us, page by page, as fast as we can scribble it, and rush clattering away to the composing room in a-cloud of dust, with sparks flying out? The true secret of timeliness is to wait 5,713 years. —New York Tribune. Comfort Without Extravagance Hotel Woodstock, New York. “Sue told me to kiss her on either cheek.” “And you——” Hesitated a long time between them.” —Lehigh Burr. A Happy Marriage Depends ely on a Knowledge ra ¢ whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health. This knowl- does not come in- telligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary, every-day sources. SEXOLOGY (Mustrated) by William H. Wailing, A.M., M.. wholesome way it ie % owicdge a Mother Shontd Inipart to 1 Medical Rnoatedge a Wite Should Haver, DAUshter. 11 In one volume, Illustrated, $: ‘postoald. ce for “Other People's Opinss Paritan Pub. Co. 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. GARAGES For Automobiles and Motorcycles $30 and Up Easy to put up. Portable. All sizes. Postal brings latest illustrated catalog. THE EDWARDS MFG. CO., 336-386 Eggleston Ave., Ciaciaaati, 0, EDWARDS FIRE- PROOF STEEL comicbooks.com