Life, 1916-04-13 · page 34 of 46
Life — April 13, 1916 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes humor with advertising. The main satirical content includes brief jokes under "Aut Scissors Aut Nullus": **"The Raffle"** mocks the naiveté of a nine-year-old girl who sees extensive handcrafted work being raffled for charity and expresses concern that the crafter receives nothing—missing the point that raffles are fundraising, not commercial transactions. **Other jokes** mock women's appearance and marital prospects with the casual misogyny typical of early 20th-century humor magazines. The page is otherwise dominated by **period advertisements**: Perrier sparkling water emphasizes its French origins and natural carbonation, while Ovington's showcases decorative home goods (lamps, candlesticks) marketed to wealthy New Yorkers as status symbols. The illustration of a girl reading appears unrelated to the surrounding text. No specific political references are evident—this is general-interest satirical content and luxury advertising for Life's affluent readership.
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sAUT SCISSORS AvT NULLus The Raffle Nellie, aged nine, was learning to cro- chet. One day she saw a large crocheted quilt, which was to be raffled off, han; a store window. She read nouncement and looked at the quilt with azement. What an endless amount of SSeS work it sce “ Mothe © cried on entering her home, “there's a crocheted quilt in Mack's window with a big card on it that says it is to be raveled out at ten cents a chanec All that work for nothing!” —Harper's Hoxus: Why do those two girls hate you so? Pocus: I once told them they looked alike-—London Op: “Wity do you Sistine Willie?” “T don't exactly dislike her, but it’s perfectly plain to me why she never got married."—Detroit Free Press. WIS POCKET PICKED eis p y 1 i r n Inited States, Great Britain Canada and British Posses foreign countries in the Pe rent copies. 10 ce Ba issues prior to 1910 The tert and illustrations in L apply to Lure, Rolls House, Breams Bui “waar is THe saTTER, sony?” “V'VE JUST READ THAT Why So Many Balls Were Los A young married couple who lived resp a famous golf-course were entertaisin, an elderly aunt from th : country. “Well, Aunt Mary, how did y this afternoon?” asked the hy the first day. “Oh, [enjoyed myself replied Auntie with a be went for a walk actos seemed to be a great ma and some of them s most eccentric mann no notice. And, by on, “I found such little round wh th home to ask you what the And the dear old lady pr her handbag about a dozer 5 of the & Spend 85 09 In Naval Terms “This is the rhinoceros mored hide “Um. And what's ih The girafi A MILLIONAIRE IAS HAD “Gee! He’ Lire is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Brit ‘sell in all the principal cities in the world. Lire's London Office, Rolis House, Breams Buildings, London, nu will be returned unless accompanied bs t does not hold itself responsible for th ns. bscribers of a erriey RENCH NATURAy TABLE WATER T is a pleasing conceit to say that Nature £77, deliberately chose the purple vineyards of Southern France as the birthplace for Perrier— the most appropriate source imaginable for & water of such matchless natural sparkle and delicacy. Perrier is bottled at the Springs in the South of France amidst the glorious French vineyards. Obtainabie at all high-class Hotels, Restaurants, and Grocers. Perrier, Lt. SIS Longacre Bldg. Cor. Broadway & 42d St., New York. Bubbling with its — own carbonic gas. with two ery tal dogs, § 'NOWN for more than half a century among New York's smartzst people for Its China and q Glassware, this house has now LWI—French also acquired a country-wide dele Lamp — Ex reputation for the striking origi- og ocbice eases nality and attractiveness of Its } a glfts—Ovington’s Ingenuitles. wood, 16 in. Send for tie Ovineton Gilt Book. OVINGTON’S 34 Filth Avenue New York 1, so = Pere in SeondDes fish, Sant Des Mio sas ‘laa Tinta, n (without Bowers), 85. Waxed L W2—Rlack Glass Candlesticks —aquare: shaped. 74 be. high, #9 pale. It woul had woul brica time rapic comicbooks.com