Life, 1916-11-09 · page 23 of 40
Life — November 9, 1916 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("If She Had Kept Her Word to All of Them"):** A bride has apparently promised to marry multiple suitors. As the minister attempts to marry her, someone—described as "some friend of the minister"—deliberately pulls a fire alarm to interrupt the ceremony. The joke satirizes a woman who made conflicting romantic commitments, and the chaos that results. **"Postage Stamps" Article:** A humorous, tongue-in-cheek explanation of postage stamps and stamp collecting (philately). The author mockingly compares early collectors to Philadelphians, jokes that stamps stick to vest pockets better than mail reaches destinations, and sarcastically suggests women don't understand postal economics. The humor is light social commentary. **Bottom Cartoon ("After Forty Years"):** An elderly clerk, after four decades of employment, receives patronizing advice to read newspaper articles about career success—ironically recommending loyalty to one's employer, which he has already demonstrated exhaustively. The satire targets corporations' hollow appreciation for long-serving workers and the uselessness of generic self-help advice.
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IP SHE HAD KEPT HER WORD TO ALL OF THEM “ TUST as the minister was about to kiss the bride, some- one turned on the fire alarm.” “Some friend of the minister, I presume.” Postage ‘Stamps POSTAGE stamp is a brilliantly colored steel engrav- ing of some person or scene prominent in the history of the nation issuing the stamp, and has been a great boon to stamp collectors, otherwise known as philatelists. The nearest things to philatelists before postage stamps were invented were Philadelphians. The postage stamp is coated with a fine quality of fragrant mucilage on the re- verse or rear side, and when the stamp is placed in the vest pocket the mucilage enables it to stick to the pocket with more enthusiasm and pertinacity than would be thought possible by one who had never witnessed a meet- ing between a postage stamp and a vest pocket. A two- cent postage stamp will carry a letter three thousand miles in five days. This almost equals the record of some hus- bands, who can carry a letter two or three years for noth- ing. Many women cannot understand why, if a letter can be carried from Boston to San Francisco by affixing a two-cent stamp, a letter cannot be carried from Boston to Portland, Maine, for one cent, or even six mills. Postage however, were not invented to satisfy woman's but to alleviate the keen desire of the philatelists to start philatelling. K.L. R. If the Great Were Grateful Kies would give daily thanks that they do not have to earn their salaries. And philosophers that the world does not yet see through Old Twenty-dollar-a-week Clerk: you OUGHT TO READ them. THESE WONDERFUL ARTICLES IN THE SUNDAY PAPER—THEY And editors that their predictions are so soon forgotten. TELL YOU HOW TO SUCCEED BY STICKING TO YOUR JOB AND And statesmen that their constituencies are too busy. BEING FAITHFUL TO YOUR EMPLOYER, AFTER FORTY YEARS comicbooks.com