Life, 1916-11-23 · page 34 of 40
Life — November 23, 1916 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page combines advertisements, humor pieces, and satirical content typical of Life magazine's format. **"The Whole of It"** is a whimsical philosophical essay personifying a doughnut hole—a cipher that gains value through contrast with the solid doughnut. It's a meditation on absence and emptiness having meaning, using doughnuts as metaphor for life's substance versus emptiness. **"Do You Get Me?"** is a cartoon showing a domestic dispute—a woman appears agitated while a man sits deflated in a chair, titled with a phrase suggesting miscommunication or failure to understand. **"Dead Bodies"** recounts an anecdote about Bernard Shaw, the famous Irish playwright and vegetarian. The humor derives from Shaw's wit: when an American visitor hesitantly greets him, Shaw sarcastically assures the nervous young man that despite his vegetarian reputation, he keeps "plenty of dead bodies" for his wife—a joke about his wife eating meat while he abstains. The page is primarily **advertising-driven**, featuring Crème Yvette liqueur prominently, with lighter satirical content interspersed.
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( Pronounced E-ver ) “For Smart Desserts” “Tell me, please, how you do it— “Your ices and sorbets are always a surprise!” ‘And true it is with the hostess who knows the secret of Créme Yvette. Something new, something unusual, something charming, in the way of frappes, sorbets, ices, and frozen desserts of all kinds, is always easy when you have Creme Yvette, with its cool violet color and subtle violet taste to help you. Try it today and see! Créme Yvette is sold at 60c and $1.50 per bottle, at fancy grocers and wine dealers, Book of signed recipes by well- known Chefs sent free. Write for it today. New York Dead Bodies YOUNG American who returned from London recently corresponded with Bernard Shaw, and happening to meet him at a Fabian gathering he shyly made himself known to the great man. The latter invited him to lunch. Over- whelmed with pleasure and the diffidence of youth, the American hesitated a mo- ment to phrase a suitable reply, and Mr. Shaw pretended to believe it was because of his reputation as a vegetarian. “ You need not be afraid, “we always have plenty of dead bodies for my wife to eat.” The Whole of It AM the hole in the doughnut. More jokes have been made about me than about ] any other airy nothing except a kiss. I am a cipher and the doughnut is a digit, but the cipher gives value to the digit. If the doughnut were a solid cake it would not be half so attractive. The hole doubles its area of flakiness. The hole furnishes a handle to the delicacy. Into the hole the lips make pleasant plunges after the crisp crumbs. Our favorite authors are like doughnuts, and know how to minglé substance with evanescence, caRe with hole. Our favorite friends present the same engaging variety. Whoever invented the doughnut was a culinary philosopher. He deserves a statue, or at least a bust. In view of the glad repletion due to him, the latter would be the suitable memorial. “Do You Get Me?” Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Life? Have you learned the greatest lesson of all—to be calm when you are wrongfully accused? Do you try each day to bring some brightness into the lives of others? Have you, and are you cultivating, a real sense of humor? Do you make a rule never to cause others trouble on your account? Are you, in short, getting the most out of your Life? If you are not, send at once for a Lire binder, so that you can keep your loose copies where they are properly kept and can be referred to and looked over. Price $1.50 in the United States. Foreign $1.75. Address Life, 17 West 31st Street, New York Eas! Scare: A aes Es reser F