Life, 1916-07-27 · page 24 of 32
Life — July 27, 1916 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains three humorous short anecdotes and advertisements. **The "Small Breakage" and "A Route to New Jerusalem" items** are brief jokes about incompetence: a golf beginner's poor play, and a religious tract society unable to deliver materials to a non-existent location—satirizing bureaucratic absurdity. **"Ecclesiastical Dues Enforced"** satirizes Scottish Presbyterian practice. A farmer deliberately gives a smaller donation (a two-shilling piece instead of his usual penny—note the reversal), but the church beadle coerces repayment by literally extending the collection plate directly in front of him after three weeks, humorously illustrating institutional pressure to maintain donations. **"A Bit Slow"** jokes about a man's new incubators failing to produce eggs after two weeks—mocking naive expectation of immediate results. The remainder of the page consists of advertisements for Perrier water and Arrow collars, standard for period magazines. No political figures or cartoons appear here; the humor is observational and domestic.
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:AUT SCISSORS .AuT NULLuS Small Breakage A beginner on a brand-new golf course in the southwest of London was hav a particular! ‘ying erience on a hole laid across a well-meaning but exasperat- ¢ ploughed field. When he did not miss the ball he bit the ground behind it. His caddie, summing up the position with his cold, professional eye, remarked to word! It wouldn't was playin’ with —Tit-Bits. A society for dissemina literature once sent a bundle of tracts zer for placing in the A Route w Jerusalem.” He returned them with the message: “We cannot place the tracts, as New Jerusalem is not on our sys —New York American. rent copies, 10 cents, Back numbe 25 cents, Issties prior to 1910 out of text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lave, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. England. = The euthnsiasm for France ispived “by afavette ts veancprred SPARKLING TABLE WATER which France has lavished upon the world she has now added that characteristically French product—Pemer Water. It possesses natural brilliance and sparkle, and unrivalled subtle delicacy. A glass of Perrier alone or with a slice of lemen in the early morning is invaluable in gout and uric acid troubles. Obtainable at all high-class Hotels, Restaurants ‘and Grocers Pexnter, Lo Longacre Bldg. Cor Broadway & 42d St. New York 1 the priceless artistic and epicurean gifts fir Menge iee: RIEK Ecclesiasticat Dues Enforced “T canna get ower it,” a Scotch farmer remarked to his wife. “I put a twa-shill- in’ piece in the plate at the kirk this stead 0° ma usual penny eadle had noticed the mi: eC, and in silence he allowed the farmer to miss the plate for twenty-three consecu- tive Sundays. On the twenty-fourth Sunda the farmer again ignored the plate, but the old beadle stretched the ladle in front of him and, in a loud, tragic whisper, hoarsely said: “Your time's up noo, Sandy.” —Chicago New: A Bit Slow “How are the incubators getting along?” asked a friend of his neighbor who had recently bought some. “Why, all right, 1 suppose; but al- though I have had them for two weeks now, not one of the four has laid an egy yet."—Ladies’ Home Journal Lunpun’s home seems badly neglect- “Well, his wife is interested in prison reform, better roads, pure politics, and clean plays."—Pittsburg Post. yal be obtained from sin all the_ pri ti 1d. The foreign trade supplied frost s London Office, i and addressed Lire does not hold itself onsible for the loss or rn of une contributions, Prompt notification should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. LIGHT. STARCHED COLLARS in. a variety of very acceptable styles made in the reliable Ar- row way teach: b forgot INC... MAKERS, TROY, N.Y.