Life, 1915-04-08 · page 34 of 44
Life — April 8, 1915 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief humorous anecdotes and a cartoon: **"Up To Them"**: A child refuses to say his nightly prayers because the list of relatives has grown too long and he's tired. He compromises by saying he'll only pray for some people—others "will have to save themselves." The joke satirizes both childhood logic and perhaps the exhausting nature of obligation. **"Diplomacy"**: An English politician cleverly avoids answering a reporter's question about foreign policy by leading him on an elaborate detour through a hotel, ultimately whispering that he knows nothing about it. The humor lies in the absurdity of such elaborate evasion for a non-answer. **"Swell Dog"**: A brief exchange where one husband complains his wife's dog barks at him; the other replies his dog doesn't even notice him. Dark marital humor. **The cartoon "If Eve Had Been—Progressive"**: Shows a woman in modern dress refusing to let her husband wear an "immodest suit" in public—inverting traditional gender roles in dress codes for satirical effect. The page also contains a Cascade Whisky advertisement.
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Little James, aged six, had been taught to pray each night for all his relatives and friends, and consequently. the list had grown quite large. So one night, when it came time for the customary prayers, he refused to say them. “Well, well, James!” said his mother. “Why won't you say them? All good little boys say their prayers” “Yes, but I'm too tired.” "Ob, excu: now, that’s a good bo} “Well,” relented James, “I guess I'll have to But, anyhow, I'm not going to pray for everybody. I'm going to cut a lot of ‘em out. Some of ‘em will have to save themselves.” —Harper's Ma my, that’s. no Come Tux Justice: Ten for exceedin’ the speed limit. Comin’ back this way? Tue Vier: No Tne Justice: Then it’s twenty. Diplomacy A well-known English politician was much annoyed by reporters. One day he was enjoying a chat at a London hotel, when a strange young man came up who seemed to have something of importance to communicate, and lead him across the room, Arrived in a corner, the stranger whispered: “I am on the staff of an evening paper, and I should like you to tell me what you think of the government's foreign policy.” Mr. Dash looked a little puz- zled; then he said: “ Follow me.” Lead- ing the way, he walked through the reading room, down some steps into the drawing room, through a long passage into the dining room, and drawing his visitor into the corner behind the hat- rack, he whispered: “TI really don’t know anything about it."—Weckly Telegraph. Swell Dog “My wife's dog has a habit of bark- ing at me every time I come home,” said one husband. "You're luck: “Mine doesn’t n replied the other. ice me that much.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer, IF EVE HAD BEEN—PROGRESSIVE —Washington Star. Lire is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Rritain and may be obtained from boot sellers in all the principal cities in the world. The foreign trade supplied from Lirt’s London Office, Kolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed itself responsible for the loss or non-return of uate ¢ United State wance. Al Great Britain, t does not hol pyrighted. w, London, tert ond ill Britain apply to Live, 114 Sout Areal, old fashioned sour mash—copper distilled, perfectly puri- fied and honestly aged. That's why Cascade has a distinguished per- sonality of its own. Original Bottling Has Old Gold Labet GEO. A. DICKEL & CO., Distillers NASHVILLE, TENN. >, envelope. Liv licited” contributions. Prompt “ POSITIVELY REFUSE TO ALLOW MY fication should be sont by subscribers of any change of address PRD WRC OR = HUSBAND TO APPEAR 1N PUBLIC IN SUCH A SNOCKINGLY 1MsMoDEST SUIT”