Life, 1914-10-22 · page 34 of 44
Life — October 22, 1914 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short humorous jokes and sketches typical of early 20th-century American satirical magazines: **The main cartoons/jokes satirize:** 1. **Social pretension and money** — A character offers financial advice he can't follow himself 2. **Educational gaps** — A new boss lacks basic grammar despite college education 3. **Drinking culture** — A man misunderstands "water wagon" temperance language 4. **Class and appearance** — A poor man can't afford clothes matching his tailor's philosophy that "clothes make the man" 5. **Chinese immigrants** — A racist poem mocking a Chinese man's queue (traditional braid) being cut and dyed blue, with exaggerated "Chinese" speech patterns 6. **Tall tales** — An implausible story about surviving a shipwreck with a catfish 7. **Social awkwardness** — A new church usher misspeaks to a lady The page also features ads for Hampshire Paper Company stationery. Most humor relies on wordplay, malapropisms, and social observation rather than political commentary.
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“LIFE: AAMT S415§ OSB Baiccs: Say, can you lend me five or ten Braces: No—— Buiccs: ——minutes? T think T can show you how to make some money. Buaces: ——trouble at all. You can have twenty if you want. —Stanford Chaparral. First Stsxoc: new boss? SeconD Stexoc: Great! He don’t know no more about grammar, spellin’, an’ punctuation than I do; he’s jest out “er college!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. How do you like your “You didn't stay very long on the water-wagon.” “ Not ver, T thought you said you would not drink a drop?” “Got my phraseology mixed. Meant that I wouldn't drop a drink” —Washington Star. The Crow: 1'VE MAD MEN PLANT CORN FOR ME, RUT THIS 18 THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER HAD ONE DIG ME WORMS Bill Rendered Dutton: You should pay more at- tention to your personal appearance, old chap. Remember that the clothes make the man, Dr Broke: Yes; but for me the man refuses to make any more clothes. —Boston Transcript. Whueue! They had cut off a Chinaman’s queue. And were painting his head a bright blueue ; So the Chinaman said, As they daubed at his head: “When I sueue yueue, yueue'll rucue what yucue dueue.” —Current Opinion. “Excuse me, sir.” said the seedy fone in the hotel lobby, “but tho stranger to me, your face seems familiar. Have you any relatives in Atlanta? “Not one,” was the veply. “ Years ago I floated down the Chattahoochee River on a raft, leaving all my relatives behind. The raft was wrecked in a storm and I had to swim ashore, with a forty- pound catfish in tow. I traded the fish for a week's board, put an ad. in the ‘Lost’ column, recovered my wrecked raft and started a lumber-yard.” —Atlanta Constitution, Tr was Smith's first Sunday as usher in church, and he was a bit flustered. Turning to a lady who entered, he said: “This way, madame, and I'll sew you into a shect."—Boston Transcript. ec 5 cents. Great Woes SASS SS ts APNE: ees newsdealers in Great Rritain and may be obtained from td al cities of the wi Breams Buildings, London, ill be returned unless accel louse, ign trade supplied from a not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of SSS ae subscribers of any change of address. nied by stamped and addresses Not a lady’s paper, not business paper. but social stationery for men @ We have a sample packet we should like to mail you @ Ask us for it The Stationery of a Gentleman HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY South Hadley Falls Massachusetts FIGHTING THE FLAMES comicbooks.com