Life, 1915-06-10 · page 36 of 48
Life — June 10, 1915 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page collects humorous anecdotes and advertisements typical of Life magazine's satirical content. **"Our Foolish Contemporaries"** presents brief jokes mocking various social types: - **"Sharpening Himself"**: A Northern tourist mistakes a Southern farmer's description of a pig "stropping himself" (sharpening bristles on a tree) for actual self-improvement—satirizing rural dialect and Northern condescension toward the South. - **"Faithful to His Memory"**: An Irish servant woman (Bridget) remarries quickly but claims to mourn her first husband, finally able to afford proper mourning clothes only through her new husband's generosity—mocking working-class hypocrisy and Irish stereotypes. - **Officer anecdote**: Plays on hazing traditions at correspondence schools, joking about a confused student instructed to "haze himself." The **"Egyptian Deities"** advertisement (top right) appears to promote cigarettes using exotic imagery—common marketing of the era. The page also advertises period products (Allen's Foot-Ease powder, Chartreuse liqueur) and includes a **caution box** warning readers against Life subscription fraud schemes.
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1060 OUR. FOO CONTEMPO ARIES EGYPTIAN DEITIES iad ass —— When the train stopped at the little Southern station the tourist from the ip eras one North sauntered out and gazed curiously PREFER Deities at a lean animal with scragay bristles, chorcumetl which was rubbing itself against a scrub ayo oak. “What do you call that?” he asked curiously of a native. “Razorback hawg, sub.” What is he doing rubbing himself inst that tree?” le's stropping hisself, suh, just stropping hisself.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. A Sherbet ts made tasty and delightful by using Abbott's Uicters. Sample of bitters by mail, 25 cts. In atamps. C. W. | Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md Orricer: Wot's the meanin’ 0° this? Extaxrasseo Younc Man: Well, it’s like this, I'm taking a course in a cor- respondence school, and yesterday those confounded sophomores wrote to me and told me to haze myself. —Harper’s Magazine. ALLENS FOOT-EASE The Antiseptic Powder to Shake Into Your Shoes Over 100,000 packages are being used by the German and Allied troops at the front. It rests the feet, prevents friction, blis- ters, Corns and Bunions and ma’ ing or standing easy. Don't go California Expositions without asup- ply of Allen's FootEase. It gives instant relief to tired, aching feet and prevents swollen, hot feet. Sold everywhere, 2Sc. Don't accept any substitute. FRE TRIAL PACKAGE vent by mail, Address, ALLEN 8. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N. ¥. “ont What Rest and Comt Faithful to His Memory After a period of six months of widowhood, Bridget consented to again enter the married state. Some weeks after she was led to the altar her old mistress met her in the street dressed in the deepest mourning. “Why, Bridget,” she exclaimed, “ for whom are you in black?” “For poor Barney, me first husband, mum. When he died Oi was that poor Oi couldn't afford to buy mourning, but Oi said if iver Oi could Oi would, and me new man, Tim, is as ginerous as a lord."—Argon green ana yellow The superb liqueur of the ages. Unvarying in char- acter—unsurpassed in ex- cellence. The Monks’ Famous Cordial At hrst-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés. Ritjer & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Sole Agents for United States CAUTION Lire employs no direct travelling repre- sentatives; it does not offer prizes, college courses or other inducements for agents to canvass for subscriptions. Anyone solicit- ing subscriptions on any such basis should be turned over to the authorities as a swindler, Be sure to place your order with a reliable bookseller, news agent or solicitor, if you do not mail it to Lire direct. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York cr