Life, 1914-03-12 · page 9 of 44
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**Top Cartoon ("Lapse of Memory"):** An old gentleman asks a young boy about his birthday, which the boy says was "a year next Saturday"—a nonsensical answer suggesting the child has been coached with a false answer (noted in the caption's parenthetical warning). The joke satirizes either parents' dishonesty with children or children's unreliability. **Bottom Cartoon ("Roman History"):** Depicts a Roman general (Brutus) instructing his sons in military etiquette before battle. The satire likely mocks formal military protocol as overly concerned with manners rather than practical warfare. **Text Sections:** Include commentary on telephone costs and a correction regarding New Haven Road wage cuts, suggesting this issue addresses labor and infrastructure issues contemporary to publication.
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LD GENTLEMAN: Well, my boy, and when does your birth- day come? LAPSE OF MEMOKY Boy (who has been cautioned not to fish for presents): Oh, it passed by a long time ago; a year next Saturday ROMAN HISTORY BRUTUS RFHEADS HIS SONS FOR A BREACH OF MILITARY ETIQUETTE The Price of Talk ALK is not so cheap in this coun- try as has heen claimed. Long distance talk over our telephones costs more, much more, than in any other country of the world, although talk in Congress still seems to be reasonably cheap, with few bidders, Perhaps if it cost a little more to talk in Congress and a little less to act, telephone talk all over the country would not be so itant. It took Congress ars to get enough light on the some situation to stop the gouging of the hope that the telephone question will not be such a puzzler. express companies. Let us An Enor WWE recently gave the impression in Lire’s that the New Haven Road had cut the wages of its employees, T! troubl columns institution is having without adding imagi- enoug We has been no cut nary ev are glad to say’ there a large number or of any of the em- ployees of the road.