Life, 1917-02-22 · page 36 of 42
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This page from *Life* magazine features humorous anecdotes mocking social behavior of the era: **"Slightly Disheartening"**: A bachelor explains his bachelorhood by recounting a failed proposal. When he finally gathered courage to propose to a young woman, her shocked response—"Good Lord! Who'd have us?"—devastated him. The joke: her rejection was so emphatic it discouraged him from romance entirely. **"Safe"**: A servant complains about a broken lamp to a country doctor, who replies they needn't worry since the constable is safely bedridden with lumbago. The satire targets rural medical practice and suggests the doctor is unconcerned about law enforcement being incapacitated. **"Schrecklichkeit"**: A woman hit by a motorcar complains the driver has an English name but "German conduct" (referencing "Schrecklichkeit"—German frightfulness). This likely dates post-1914, playing on anti-German sentiment during WWI. The page is primarily satirical commentary on contemporary social mishaps, complemented by period advertisements for champagne, cruises, and digestive remedies.
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(oe) ARI I Ine H CONTEMPORARII ES ee Slightly Disheartening The pretty girl of the party was ban- tering the genial bachelor on his reasons for remaining single. “No-oo, I never was exactly disap- pointed in love,” he meditated. “I was more what you might call discouraged. You see, when I was very young I be- came very much enamored of a young lady of my acquaintance; I was mortally afraid to tell her of my feeling, but at last I screwed up my courage to the pro- posing point. I said, ‘Let’s get_mar- ric “And she said, ‘Good Lord! have us!’"—Everybody's. Who'd ‘ A teaspoontal of Abbott's Bit makes an Ideal appetizing tonte. ‘Bets. in stampa, C, W, Abbot & with your Gi ple of bit Ielmore, Safe Servant: I can't get this light to burn, sir. Country Doctor: Oh, never mind. We're only going home, and I've got the constable safe in bed with lumbago. —Liverpool Globe. "ere tail- Schrecklichkeit Lapy (sho has been damaged by mo- tor-car) ; I sez to the shover, I sez, “ You may ‘ave an English nime, but your con- duck’s Tooton.”"—London Punch, WOMAN ™: shows from enlist times, man has specialized woman for By VANCE THOMPSON scx slone and woman has striven to escape from that thralldom. ‘The most searching and com. prehensiveaccount yet made of he causes‘of the Feminist Move- ment and its means of success, written in Vance Thompson's pungent and strongly individual style. Price, $1.25. Postage extra, At all booksellers, or from E. P, DUTTON & CO,, 681 Fifth Ave. New York BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes| Indigestion. One package | proves” it. 25¢ at all druggists. | _ GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER SO cents the case of 6 glass stoppered bottles C. O.: You are charged with being drunk and disorderly, using abusive lan guage too, and striking an N. C. O., re- fusing to obey an order, and breaking six panes of glass in the guard-room, Have you anything to say? Deravttee: Well, sir, it was my birth- day, and all of us are liable to be only human at sich times, sir. —London Opinion. Under the American Flag A Few Good Rooms are still to be had on our second and last 24 day cruise SAILING MARCH 10 visiting Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, LuxuriousS.S.“Tenadores.” Sails a week sherinauguatica Dey Is gone during Lest. Returns a week before Easter Act now as many who tried to obtain eleventh hour reservations for our first cruise were disappointed. Write, Telephone or Wire AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY 66 Broadway, New York Phisadcipata Cewland. CAscage San Francisco Aidany Se bev Las dncvies Fe Boston jreit Deuies to any other cigarette. 25¢ Sirargypss Makers of the Highest Grade Tarkish = and Eqyplion Cgaretes in theirs |) | Great Western | @ Champagne | “Brut Special 1903" “*Special Reserve" i (absolutely brut) “Extra Dry" (medium) Produced by the old French slow method of fermentation in the bottle taking from six to seven years of time. Great Western is the Only American Champagne ever awarded a Gold Medal at Foreign Expositions. Paris Exposition, 1900, France Paris Exposition, 1889, France Bruxelles Exposition, 1910, Belgiea Vieuna Exposition, 1873, Austria Bruzelles Exposition, 1897, Belgiom Paris Exposition, 1867, Write for our tree Hinstrated Bookie which tells haw Champagne ts wade | Piessent Valley ey Wine Company Oldest and largest para of Champagne in Americs | Well Recommended “Have you the firmness that enables you to go on and do your duty in the face of ingratitude and ungenerous erit- icism?” “T ought to have. I once cooked for a camping party."—Washington Star. I'm in here for having five Convict: coc witea: Folder , : ri joying your b. Visitor: How are you enjoying y liberty ?—Boston Transcript. comicbooks.com