Life, 1915-08-26 · page 36 of 48
Life — August 26, 1915 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page contains four brief humorous anecdotes typical of early 20th-century American magazines: **"Reassuring Mother"**: A mother interrogates her son about a new school friend, asking if the boy uses "naughty words." Edmund assures her he doesn't—and won't teach him any. The joke satirizes anxious middle-class parenting and moral propriety concerns. **"Round"**: An extremely obese woman struggles boarding a streetcar. When the conductor suggests she try entering sideways, she replies she has no "sideways"—a self-aware fat joke relying on body-shaming humor typical of the era. **"Encouraging" and "Pitiless"**: Two brief vignettes about morality: one depicts a wife reluctantly accepting gambling winnings while moralizing against the habit; the other shows a tramp's sob story failing to move a hardened listener. The page also advertises a novel called *Me: A Book of Remembrance*, described as an anonymous woman novelist's rapid memoir about navigating the business world as a young, romantic woman from Canada.
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388 Reassuring Mother Edmund had just begun to attend the public school, and had found a new friend, a child of whom Edmund's mother had never heard. “Who is this Walter he a nice little boy?” “Yes, ma'am, he is!” replied Edmund, enthusiastically. “Does he say any pursued his mother. “No,” replied Edmund, with d I'm not going to teach him any!” —Youth’s Companion, Rotund An elderly woman who was extremely stout was endeavoring to enter a street car when the conductor, her difficulty, said to her: Try sideways, madam; try sideways.” The woman looked up breathlessly and said: “Why, bless ye, I ain't got no side- "Louisville Herald, she asked. “Is words?” ghty noticing ways! KEEPING HIM WAITING Encouraging “Here, my dear,” said the husband, producing his purse, “here's fifty dol- lars I won playing cards in the smoking room last night. You may have it to buy that dress you wanted.” Reluctantly the conscientious wife took the'money, then eaid, with’an expression of rigid rectitude: “T simply shudder at the thought of using money gained in such a way. Henry promise me that after you have won enough for me to buy the hat to go with the dress you will never again touch those awful cards. I don’t want my husband to become a gambler.” —Topeka Journal. Pitiless “Some men have no hearts,” said the tramp, “I've been a-tellin’ that feller I am so dead broke that I have to sleep outdoors.” 2 “Didn't that fetch him?” “Naw. He tol’ me he was a-doin’ th same thing, and had to pay the do for tellin’ him to do it. -Christian Register. KNICKER: live in a subm Bocker: in a seaside hotel How do you suppose men rine? Didn't you ever have a room n the United States, Great Britain, Possessions,’ $s.00 a year in advance. Additional p the Postal U: nN, $1.04 a year; to Canad: i 10 cents. Rack numbers, after three months fr: Issues prior to 1910 out of print. nd illustrations in Lite. are Lire is published Canada and Briti foreign countries rent copies. cents. The tert ‘ery Thursday, simultaneous! Reprint Rights in Great ¢, London, HW’. C. Britain opply to Live, 114 Southampton Ri day a few months ago a woman novelist of national reputation found herself in a New York hospital with three or four weeks of convalescence ahead of her. ing there, looking up at the ceiling, she went back over the period when, alone, almost penniless, seventeen and ablaze with life, she set out from Canada to fight her way in a business world of men and to seck adventure in a world wherein everybody, especially men, seemed to her marvelously romantic figures. A great deal happened to her, and in a very great hurry; and the con- valescent, running back over that thrilling, colorful time, began to set it down on paper. It was a tour de force—one hundred thousand words written in two weeks, And she called it A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE The book is anonymous, of course. It is a breathless story of love, adventure and daring. It is worth a dozen sociological volumes as a revelation of what the eager, attractive, romantically innocent girl mects who goes forth into the business world of men. It is a literary gem as a perfectly transparent self-revelation of character. The personality revealed on every page is one of almost uncanny fascination. She is, as the book shows, the daughter of an English-Irish artist and a mother who had spent her early days traveling about the country of her birth as a dancer and tight-rope walker. She has that peculiar sensitiveness of the artist which catches and records those over- and under-tones of prosaic life that constitute romance. She has the childlike, often the appalling, simplicity and frankness of a race far removed from the Anglo-Saxon. Otherwise she could not have had the experiences she had, nor written them in the manner of “ ME. Price $1.30 net, postage 10 cents Published by THE CENTURY CO., New York City Lire is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Britain and ‘sin all the principal cities inthe world. Lirt's London Off No contribution y be The foreign t Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, rill be ned unless accompanied by stamped and addre elf respomsible for the loss or non-return LEND A WAND Reproduced in full color and attractively mounted on white stock, 12 x 16 inches. Sent prepaid upon receipt of 25 cents. LIFE PUBLISHING COMP/ 17 West 31st St, New York comicbooks.com