Life, 1915-09-09 · page 34 of 44
Life — September 9, 1915 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains four unrelated humor pieces and a Perrier water advertisement: **The cartoons/jokes** satirize everyday social situations: 1. A physician and chronic hypochondriac debate medical expertise—the invalid, with 25 years of experience being sick, dismisses the young doctor's three-year degree. 2. A man interrupts a woman's reading, tired of "automobile jokes" (likely contemporary humor about cars). 3. A British professor misunderstands rural American dialect, asking to "buy some" cornbread from a woman who finds his formal phrasing amusing. 4. An opera impresario notes that a prima donna won't "squander" her five-thousand-dollar-per-night talent on singing her own children to sleep. 5. A German cartoon (with hyphen reference) appears to make a political joke, though context is unclear. The humor relies on class differences, linguistic misunderstandings, and human vanity rather than specific topical references. The **Perrier advertisement** invokes Pascal and French sophistication to market sparkling water as the refined choice.
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SSAUT SCISSORS (SC AvT NULLUS Evenly Matched “You haven't any serious or organic trouble,” said the young physician, cheer- fully. “You are a little nervous and run down, that's all, Take more exercise, cat Jess and forget your troubles.” The hypochondriac snorted. “Young man,” he demanded, his voice shaking, “how long have you been a doctor?” “1 took my degree three years ago,” answered the medico. “And [am an invalid of twenty-five years’ experience. Who are you to dis- agree with me? "—Brooklyn Eagle. “Towarp the end of the ride,” she was reading aloud, “they came to a ford-——” “Oh, skip that!" he exclaimed, patiently, “I'm getting tired of those automobile jokes."—Buffalo Courier. , ims Briefly Put An English professor, traveling through the hills, noted various quaint expressions. For instance, after a long ride the pro- fessor sought provisions at a mountain hut. “What d’ yo’-all want?” called out a woman, “ Madam,” said the professor, “can we get corn bread here? We'd like to buy some of you.” “Corn bread? Corn bread, did yo" say?" Then she chuckled to herself, and her manner grew amiable. “ Why, if corn bread’s all yo’ want, come right in, for that's just what I hain't got nothing else on hand but.”"—Boston Herald. Frugal Tue Impresario: Certainly, madam, I can supply you with a second prima donna to sing your children to sleep. But you sing so perfectly yourself. Tue Prima Doxxa Assouta: But my singing is worth five thousand dollars a night, and I couldn't think of squander- ing that amount on the children. —Houston Chronicle. “THAT'S A VERY PRETTY HYPHEN, HERR, BUT IT MIGHT GET YoU INTO TROUBLE, you know * Live is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Bi i Additional postage foreign countries in the Postal Crion, $194 a years to Canada, sz cents ree’ months from date of publication, Canada and British Possessions.” $5.00 a year in advance. t copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, after t Issues prior to 1910 out of print. t and illustrations iw Live are Britain apply to Lire, 114 Southampton Row, The enthusiasm for France inspired by Lafayette is re-inspired by Perrier. tL For Reprint Rights Obtainable at all high-class Hotels, Restaurants and Grocers, WILLIAMS & HUMBERT, Agents, 1158 Broadway, New York. Fxg Lire is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Britain and may be obtained from book sellers in all the principal cities in the world, The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office. Rolls House. Breams Buildings, London. F.C. No contribution will be returned uniess accompanied by stamped and addres lope. Live docs not hold itself respomsible for the loss or non-return of unto fed. contributions. ronitt notification should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. ingle cure Great HEN Pascal said that the stream is always purest at its source, he unwit- tingly wrote a testimonial in advance for Perrier. Every drop of sparkling Perrier Water is bottled at the gushing, bubbling Perrier Spring. And there is something irresistibly appealing to refined taste’ in the fact that the brilliance of Perrier is entirely a natural brilliance. To quench hot weather thirst drink The Champagne of Table Waters. Perrier is bottled at the Springs in the South of France amidst the glorious French vineyards, There is no saltiness in Perrier, the great reason why it combines so perfectly with Wines and Spirits N.B.—A glass of Perrier alone or with a slice of lemon in the early morning is invaluable in gout Bubbling and uric acid troubles—the bugbear of middle-age. own with its Carbonic Gas. —___) ; Dee ree et acu SA TA LIT comicbooks.com