Life, 1915-07-15 · page 36 of 48
Life — July 15, 1915 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with interspersed humor snippets** rather than political cartoons. The main illustrated content shows "The Bostonian's Bull"—a joke about a Boston businessman on a train who recites the nursery rhyme "This little pig went to market" to a stranger's children by touching their mother's foot protruding from behind a curtain. The punchline: the mother coldly shuts him down, finding his familiarity inappropriate. Other humor items mock social pretension and relationships: - "Mother Hates Falsehoods" uses exaggerated parental threats (a one-eyed moon-man) as satire of Victorian child-rearing - A gender-relations joke where a woman refuses a man after learning couples eventually look alike - "A Bit Tired" uses a tramp's pun about his coat's insomnia The page is dominated by **product advertisements** (Egyptian Deities cigarettes, White Rock water, P&O cruise lines, Shirt Garters) typical of Life's business model. No significant political content or identifiable caricatures appear.
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