Life, 1917-05-31 · page 32 of 38
Life — May 31, 1917 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple elements: poems, advertisements, and brief humorous anecdotes typical of Life magazine's satirical format. **"From a Land Lady"** is a poem satirizing upper-class women who, during World War I (likely), abandoned leisure activities (bridge, golf, dining) to engage in agricultural work—plowing fields and raising livestock for the war effort. The satire suggests both admiration for their sacrifice and gentle mockery of their sudden transformation into farmers. **The anecdotes** offer light humor: an Irish laborer volunteering to bury dead beer; a joke about a one-legged athlete who "purposely" lost his leg to avoid handicaps; a wife preparing ammunition (her husband's golf club bills arriving instead of her spending) for marital argument. **Advertisements** dominate the lower half, promoting Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Cape Cod vacations, Horlick's Malted Milk, and Club Cocktails—typical early-20th-century consumer goods. **The final satirical note** jests that Kaiser Wilhelm has already arranged a Holland palace and standing orders for *Life* magazine—mocking his presumed inevitable defeat and exile while suggesting even enemies appreciate American humor.
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From a Land Lady Ask me no more to take a hand At bridge; all card games I've for- I am a lady of the land. Each morn I don my agricultural kit, My gabardine, stout boots and gaiters And trench the soil, preparing it For ‘taters. Ask me no more a round to play; To golf I am a stranger now. My hands, fair hirelings, guide to-day The plough. My hobbies are pigs, fowls and bees; My sowing is confined to seeds; My chatter is of pedigrees And breeds. Ask me no more to dine or sup Where we can sce the latest fashions. All such delights I've given up. My rations Upon my industry depend On how I fill the shining hours ; \nd so, T may remark, my friend, Do yours. —Smilax, London Opinion. | In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE.| Sexvant (to Irish laborer): Here is heer, Pat, if you care to have it. But I'm afraid it’s quite dead. Pat: Oh, dead it is. Well, then, darling, it's meself who is just the bey to bury it—Tit-Bits, Every Breeze an Ocean Breeze Cape Cod Where you'll enjoy a Quiet Restful, Healthful Vacation A Summer Playground without a peer Bathing in ocean, or inland lakes Fishing that’s worthy of a king Motoring over superb ros Golf that delig! “ Quaint Cape Cod" Glesteated booklets, write Vacation B 171 Broadway, Room 471, New York, New York, New Haven & & HarordR RR. PREFER Deities any other cgorate 29 © Making It Easier Colonel Hal Corbett, formerly of Ken tucky but now practicing law in New York, went to an athletic tourney over on Long Island ly in the spring. One of the contestants showed tremendous speed and agility, notwithstanding the fact that he was a one-legged man. “1 wonder how that young chap lost his leg?" said a friend to Corbett, “T figure that he didn’t lose it—that he had it cut off purposel, said Corbett. “In the name of heaven—why “So it wouldn't get in his way hamper him when he was out winning track events,” said Corbett. —Saturday Evening Post. te made tasty and deliubtfal by uelne Abbott's ple of bitters by mail. 23 cts. In stamps. C.M Abbott & Co., Baltimore. Md. Ready for Him “I'm just waiting for my husband to complain about my extravagance this month.” “ Ready ch? “You bet Iam. By mistake his golf club checks came to the house, and I've got ‘em."—Detroit Free Press. to give him an argument Original Malted Milk Nourishing Delicious Digestible The powder dissolves in water. Rich Milk, Malted For Infants, Invalids and growin: Pure nutrition, upbu Invigorates nursing mothe: rate | extract in pomder. ildren. ing the whole body. and the aged. Needs no “cooking—Kee| The Original Food-Drink for all ages. More nourishing than tea, coffee, etc. In the home, or at Hotels and C: Substitutes cost YOU Same P | Those who know most aboutcocktails are quick- ‘est to overcome any prejudice against the bottled product when they critically test Club Cocktails | Because you cannot hide the aroma, the master blending, and the ageing in the kindly : | wood which have smoothed and finished old andrare liquors in- toa final product of exception- al and distinctive excellence. |G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Hartford New York London Importers of the Famous BRAND'S A-1 SAUCE —__ T is reported that Wilhelm, the Prussian, has already prepared a palace in Holland to flee to when the end comes and that he has also been prudent enough to place a standing order with the local newsdealer so that he will be sure of his weekly copy of Lire. Herb Fath 1 comicbooks.com