Life, 1917-06-07 · page 10 of 42
Life — June 7, 1917 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page features a biographical article about an unnamed public figure (likely a lawyer or advocate based on the text) alongside two cartoon panels satirizing hasty marriages. The two-panel cartoon, credited to William Congreve's "The Old Bachelor," shows a man rushing to a "Marriage Licenses" office, then frantically departing with documents. The caption reads "Married in haste, we may repent at leisure"—a classic warning about impulsive matrimony. The upper illustration depicts people in an office or study setting, appearing to illustrate the biographical subject's professional life. The satire targets impetuous marriage decisions, using the frantic imagery to mock those who rush into wedlock without proper consideration, a common theme in early 20th-century American humor about courtship and domestic life.
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978 “LIFE years before the Civil War, to make a living. i, He made it; but that was one Wht (a of the less important of his “2/////" "Tae achievements. He practiced not 7 be only a profession but an art, and it was the art that brought him his great distinction. The art was discourse, for which he had a beautiful gift. And since he made his living by his profes- sion, he was able to devote his art considerably to public uses. It served him, of course, in his profession, for he excelled more as an advocate than strictly as a law- yer; but more and more as his years increased and his legal labors less- ened, he held his gift of speech in trust for the public and disbursed it generously on great occasions and small. To causes that appealed to him he seemed never to grudge time or strength or trouble. Whatever appealed to him as a duty that be- longed to him, he discharged if he could. There is no public talker in sight that is like him, and no prospect of any. He had old-fashioned scholar- 7 ship, and humor, and a powerful, A JUNE trained mind that enabled him to say what he would as he wished to say it. Along with great good will he had show to someone who is always He could handle what came to him, abundant courage. He seemed to look to us, And life was very kind to him. and delightful things kept coming. out on life with the confidence we But it is seldom kind to those who fear it. It is kind, sometimes, to masters, = but not merely because they are mas- ————— terful. Perhaps it is kindest to the MARRIAGE most intelligent, for intelligence is al- most as good as charity in its under- standing of things, its appraisal of men, its forbearance on orcasion, its urbanity; and yet when there is due warrant, beware of the dexterous sharpness of its assault. Mr. Choate was intelligent all through, Whatever passed through his mind came out adorned. He had beau- tiful brains, and a wonderful service he got out of them, not only for him- self, but for every country, every com- munity, every organization, firm, chari- ty or family that had a claim on him. It was a great benefit that he should have lived so long. His predecessor as our leading citizen, Mr. Bigelow, lived to be ninety-three. His successor “Married in haste, we may repent at leisure” is Mr. Root, to whom, long life! From“ The Old Bachelor,” William Congreve. E.S.M. comicbooks.com