Life, 1916-08-10 · page 30 of 38
Life — August 10, 1916 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and humor page** from Life magazine (likely early 1900s, given references to South African War and trolley-cars). The "Our Foolish Contemporaries" section contains brief satirical anecdotes mocking: 1. **Kindergarten joke**: A trolley conductor kissing a schoolteacher—the children assume any man entering a trolley must be the conductor, a commentary on class and occupational stereotypes. 2. **Military chaplain joke**: A recruit mistakes Field Marshal Kitchener for Joshua, conflating Biblical and contemporary military history—satirizing soldiers' ignorance or the chaplain's anachronistic language. 3. **"Sea-serpent party" joke**: Mocking political idealists who claim to form selfless organizations while being transparently self-interested—"sea-serpent" means mythical/nonexistent. The page also includes product advertisements (Garstairs Rye whiskey, Mothersill's seasick remedy, Egyptian Deities cigarettes) and a cartoon about job rejection. No specific political figures are identifiable in the imagery.
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Who Was It? The kindergarten had been studying the wind all week—its power, effects, ete. —until the subject had been pretty well exhausted. To stimulate interest the kindergartner said, in her most enthusi- astic manner: “Children, as I came to school to-day in the trolley-car, the door opened and something came softly in and kissed me on the cheek. What do you think st was?” And the children joyfully answered, “The conductor!" —Harper's Magazine. A teaspoontal of Abbott's Bitters with your Grape makes an ‘appetizing tonte. Zcts. In stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. At a military church service during the South African War some recruits were listening to the chaplain in church saying, “Let them slay the Boers as Joshua smote the Egyptians,” when a recruit whispered to a companion: “Say, Bill, the old bloke is a bit off; doesn't he know it Kitchener who swiped the Egyptians? "—Tit-Bits, BACAKDE Makes The Perfect Cocktail, Mickey or Highball, Try Itt of Your Head should be covered withanatural growth of hair, and it can be —if roots are not d me dead. can be removed and grey hair arrested through our Physical Culture Exer- cises and local treatment for the scalp. Write for information Grace-Mildred Culture Course Dept. 33, 624 S. Michigan Blvd., Chicago The name proves the quality Frait Sample of bitters by mall, Dandruff | 1k >i > fs ald Clever “To knew a man who was very much afraid he would be loved, not for him- self, but for his advantages, so he put it to the test.” “ How did he do that?” “Wrote an anonymous letter to the girl he loved asking her to marry him.” —Baltimore American, “Wutat I propose,” said the man who gets very much in earnest, “is a political organization that will be free from all selfish interest, laboring only for the highest ideals— “1 know,” interrupted the rude per- son. “You're going to start one of those sea-serpent parties.” “Why do you refer to it as a sea- serpent party?” “Because there ain't mal."—Washington Star. no such ani- GORDON ions: Gin. BEVERAGES piece of ice in Fill glass with Fiz: GIN . drink of Go-don Water and serve. HIGHBALL, ormula for another beverage will follow next week. ] Wd In the protective bottle—‘‘a good bottle to keep good whiskey good.”’ Deities to any other cigarette. B5¢ hargy 20s Makers of the Highest Grade Tarkish and Egyptian Cigarettes in the World WILSON- ROCHE 211 tater-Southern Bs. | MOTHERSILL’S | | SEASICK REMEDY The Thing for Trainsickness AT ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS HEN Napoleon Bonaparte turned from Elba he found all his copies of Lire waiting for him at his newsdealer’s. apoleon was @ genius and had given the dealer @ standing order. re- “YOU REJECTED Too? TO KNOW WHAT THEY WANT.