Life, 1915-05-13 · page 12 of 52
Life — May 13, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"Guide to June"** - advice column encouraging readers to plan ahead for the month, emphasizing weddings and domestic life. 2. **"Cabot Was Sane"** - brief article about a Boston lawsuit involving the Cabot and Heminway families, discussing a will contest. It mentions "Lawyer Whipple" arguing the case and notes the proceedings involved disputes over family honor and inheritance. 3. **"A Soldier and a Bullet"** - commentary on a German-American soldier killed in France during WWI. The piece argues the soldier died due to German invasion/military decisions, not American bullets, expressing hope American munitions will protect against future invasion. 4. **Cartoon** (bottom right) - shows a man asking to see "Mr. Jones," with the caption suggesting confusion about which "Jones" (implying multiple criminal variations: "Lobster Jones" or "Horse Thief Harry"). The humor plays on common criminal nicknames and identity confusion.
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“LE PESE Guide to June ALK up five months, beginning with January, turn sharply to your right, and there is June. June is noted for its roses and honeymoons. There are more desolated households in June, on account of out- going brides, than at any other time. Also more house- holds where mamma experiences a grand feeling of relief sand papa hopes that now expenses can be cut down. To enjoy June properly, take an early start. Begin to make your plans about it in March. Get rid of your moral courage, your character and your regular business. Then, grabbing all the money there is in the cash drawer, enter June with confidence and give yourself up to it with the complete serenity of hopeless irresponsibility. Cabot Was Sane N the great Boston lawsuit to break the will of Louis Cabot, the will was sustained. Lawyer Whipple, the favorite attorney for offense in first-family fights in Boston, lost his case. The Cabot family came out well; so did the Hemin- way family. A will fight is a mean business, but there was no more than a minimum of meanness brought out in this contest. Evidence was given of a great deal of kind, patient and loyal behavior by decent people, and even the testator came out an honorable man, albeit considerably City Boy: EY, poccone iT! 1 AIN'T A FLowER! distressed in his nerves. A Soldier and a Bullet ERMAN-BORN American letter-writer to the Evening Post says that he has heard from his mother that his brother, killed in France in February, “died with an American bullet in his heart”. He com- plains, not of his brother’s death, but about the American Lullet. “I have another brother,” he says, “fighting for his country’s cause, a father of three little ones waiting for his return; is he, too, going to be killed by a United- States-made bullet?” It is quite possible. The Germans came seli-invited into France, and it is not for them to be critical about the details of the hospitalities offered them. It strained French resources to receive and entertain so many visitors, The French had to get supplies where they could, and it was quite a scramble to get enough. They bought bul- lets, no doubt, in the open market, and if they got some American bullets, why not? Let us hope there will always be American bullets available for countries fighting against invasion and sub- jection by their powerful neighbors. The reason why the good German letter-writer’s brother is dead is that he was a German invader fighting in France. His errand was so to crush France that she could never again get in Germany’s way. No doubt it was not his fault that he was on that errand, but it was the German “I WISH TO SEF MR, JONES.” mind that sent him that is guilty of his death, not the “WHICH JONES—' LOBSTER JONES’ OR ‘HORSE THIEF American bullet that killed him, Harry’?” - Va se comicbooks.com