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Life — November 23, 1916 — page 30: Life, 1916-11-23

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This page is primarily **advertisements interspersed with short humorous pieces**, typical of Life magazine's format. The main content includes: 1. **"Little Speeches for Great Moments"** — A satirical monologue by a striking worker (signed "D.B.") who cynically admits his wage demands are purely selfish, just as capitalists' motives are. He acknowledges the public will pay the cost and his employer faces inconvenience, but he's using union machinery to demand higher wages anyway. This mocks both labor strikers and capitalists by presenting them as morally equivalent and self-interested. 2. **"She Knew Him"** — A domestic comedy dialogue about a married couple where the wife suggests that *mystery and uncertainty* preserve romantic interest. She claims thirty-five years of marriage haven't let him know her too well, implying she deliberately withholds information. The humor derives from the wife's calculated emotional manipulation presented as relationship wisdom. The remaining content is **product advertising** (Hansen Gloves, Bell-Ans indigestion remedy, Dunlop golf balls, Horlicks Malted Milk).

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HANSEN GLOVES The Gift With the Personal Touch “THERE is 2 sort of sintimacy a- bout a pair of gloves that car- ries an appeal both practical and sentimental. And there is special value in the gift of a Hansen, the this a glove of individual service, "Glove Christmas.” cone pair of an assortment. Free book shows many styles dealer is not supplied, write. Mike Send IF your O. C. Hansen Manufacturing Co. 102W Detroit St. Milwaukee, Wis. i YH. Little Speeches for Great Moments On Striking for Higher Wages D® PUBLIC: In striking, as I do to-day, for higher wages, it gives me great pleasure to announce that my moti are purely selfish and personal, just as are the motives of the capitalists whom I oppose and of the private individuals whom I serve. 1 know that if I win my fight, and re- ceive a higher wage, that the public will ultimately pay the bill, and that my employers will merely be put to the temporary inconvenience of raising the cost of living. Nevertheless, like every other human being, I want more money, and since I have at last per- fected the machinery of union labor, I mean to get it as everyone else has got ten it, namely, by main strength. If 1 had been born into the capitalistic class, I would be just as determined to hold on to the money that I had taken from labor. I thank you. D.B. you have made a great success film- ing Shakespeare.” » but T think T can do better ‘m going to try an original play.’ —Louisville Courier-Journal. | proves it. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package 25c at all druggists. DUNLOP GOLF BALLS best for sand greens! Duntoos bold their paiet and say clean apd white on this severe service. St tescded reer the trete Your golf professional can supply DUNLOPS $9.00 perduzen — 75c each THE DUNLOP RuBBER Co., LTo. Birmis Eng. She Knew Him HAVE often wondered,” he said, “what your thoughts are.” They were sitting together quietly in the evening hour. She appeared to be amused, “Evidently, then,” she replied, “ you do not believe what I say.” “Oh, no, I wouldn't go so far as that. You may not choose to say what you think.” “Isn't it better,” she said, “that it should be this way? If we perfectly knew and faithfully and fully under- stood each other, there would be no curiosity. Now, is not curiosity the basis of our real interest in each other? You see, at any turn in the road there may be a new experience, and this keeps us—well, guessing.” He regarded her anxiously. “Do you feel that way about me?” he asked. “Not necessarily,” she hastened to reply. “My observations were merely intended to serve as an: illustration. Couldn’t we reverse the idea? You are interested in me now because you are curious to know what I am going to say next. If you really knew you would have no interest.” He reflected. “And yet,” he said at last, “there are some people I have come to know so well that all curiosity about them has gone—yet I am still fond of them— and I have found them out, too!” She smiled. “That is a dangerous experiment— that is, so far as you are concerned.” “How do you know me well enough to know that? We have only been married thirty-five years?” She tapped him on the cheek with her ivory paper-cutter. “Silly!” she exclaimed. “I know you well cnough to know that it wouldn’t do even now for me to let you know too much. It might pos- sibly do for some others, but not for me. I wouldn't trust you.” STITCH in time saves nine, and an order nin time to your newsdealer may s% you the mortifica- tion of being told by him that he has sold out his entire supply of Lire. Original Malted Milk Nourishing Delicious seceeble © powder dissolves in water. Needs no cooking— Rie ‘Milk, Malted grain extract in powder. For Infants, Invalids and growing children. Pure nutrition, tpbuilding the whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers, and the aged. The Original Food. it Sor all ages More nourishing than tea, coffee, ete. In the home, or at Hotels and Cafes Substitutes cost YOU Same Price.