Life, 1916-08-17 · page 28 of 38
Life — August 17, 1916 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three brief humorous anecdotes typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines: **"Quite Accustomed"** jokes that marriage itself is a "hot-water cure" for dyspepsia—implying marital stress causes digestive troubles. **"Is and Has Been"** plays on British formality: an Englishman, served bean soup, pedantically insists on knowing what it *is* currently, not what it *has been*, missing the obvious pun entirely. **"Good Advice"** features a Sunday school lesson where a child concludes that preachers should give shorter sermons (referencing the biblical Eutychus who fell asleep during St. Paul's lengthy sermon and died). The page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, featuring White Rock water and an "All-One" adjustable golf iron prominently. The cartoons are mild domestic and workplace humor reflecting period anxieties about marriage, British eccentricity, and clerical verbosity—nothing politically charged or requiring specialized historical knowledge beyond recognizing these as common satirical targets of the era.
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Quite Accustomed Two citizens were toddling up the street one day recently, earnestly en- gaged in exchanging their experiences with dyspepsia. “And did you ever try the hot-water cure?” asked the thin one. “Did 1?” repeated the melancholy one, who had also something of the sav- ing grace of humor in his make-up, as many melancholy men have. “I should say I did. Why, man, I've been married fifteen years."—Argonaut. Is and Has Been An Englishman went into a restaurant in a New England town and was served for his first course with a delicacy un- known to him. So he asked the waiter what it was, and the waiter replied: “It's bean soup, sir.” Upon this the Englishman rejoined in high dudgeon, “I don’t care what it's been; I want to know what it is.” —Wisdom. Lire is published every Thursday, si Canada and Br Possessions. $5.00 a year in adva Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year; to Canada, 52 cents. Single cur- rent copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, 25 cents, issues prior to 1910 out of print. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint apply to Live, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, L. taneously in the United States, Great Britain, ae *" Jae The responsible ; families of = have White Rock water lon their tables erica |g THE PROPERTY MAN Good Advice A minister was questioning his Sun- day-school concerning the story of Eu- tychus, the young man who, listening to the preaching of the Apostle Paul, fell asleep, and, falling out of a window, was taken up dead, “What,” he asked, this solemn event?” The reply from a little girl came: “Please, sir, ministers should learn not to preach too long sermons.” —Tit-Bits. do we learn from Apt Comparison “Prof. Diggs is an authority on the Chaldeans.” “Indeed?” “Yes. He knows as much about those ancient people as Mrs. Diggs knows about the Smiths and Joneses who live next door."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Viotet: Adéle is such an economical little body La Rose: Ah, yes! She'll trudge for miles from one law office to another to save ten dollars on a divorce. —Boston Globe. 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, E. C. y ion will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed docs not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of nso ions ‘ation should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. Simplify your game. Play better golf. Familiarity means certainty. With the “All-One” Club you get 3 to 5 times the practice which you now get with any one Club—and practice makes perfect. The “All-One™ Iron is instantly adjustable to the three face angles shown above. One turn of locking collar releases head; another turn locks head in desired position. It is firm and tight; will not rattle. In every position it is as fine and true a Club as you ever swung. Every shot in the game can be played with the “All-One” Club. The Driving-Iron position makes an excellent putter. Use the “All-One™ Club exclusively or only on the fair green. Either way you will play better golf. A handy Club for guests, for travelling or when caddies can't be hed. “More Clubs Make More Difficulties"—says Chick Evans. Reduce your diffi- culties and improve your game with the “Alll-One.” Price $6. Sold by the tllowing dealers and many others, ot shipped prepaid in the U. S. upon receipt of pace by ‘ GOODRICH SALES CO., 7 So. Dearborn St., Chicago NEW YORK: Von Lengerke & Detmold; New York Sporting Goods Co.; Abercrombie & Fitch; Frank Slazenger & Co. PHILADELPHIA: Edw. K. Tryon Co. CHICAGO: The Golf Shop; Von Lengerke & Antoine comicbooks.com