Life, 1917-08-09 · page 36 of 42
Life — August 9, 1917 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains several brief humorous anecdotes and advertisements typical of early 20th-century satirical journalism. **"A Record Breaker"** jokes about a baby weighed on fishing scales, implying the newborn is unusually heavy—a gentle humor about new parenthood. **"Accounting for It"** presents a Jewish character (Levi Cohen) whose wife questions why he loses at horse racing but wins at cards, suggesting he's either unlucky or dishonest depending on the activity. **"As in Much Greater Cases"** depicts a father and son discussing a fight, with the father advocating reason while admitting he'd still resort to violence—satirizing adult hypocrisy about conflict resolution. **"Delicately Put"** shows a suitor reassuring a father-in-law that he appreciates the daughter's good qualities, with the father hoping she inherited them from him—gentle irony about family vanity. The page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, featuring Listerine antiseptic and Allen's Foot-Ease prominently. The humor is mild, domestic, and non-partisan—typical of *Life*'s family-oriented satirical content from this era.
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~ 236 FOOL!I Ss H , CONTEMPO ARIES DEITIES “The Utmost in Plan Ender A Record Breaker Bape ears ioe Along the Fox River, a few miles PREFER pena above Wedron, IIL, an old-timer named Andy Haskins has a shack, and he has made most of the record fish catches in that vicinity during forty years. He has a big record book containing dates and weights to impress visitors. Last summer a young married couple from Chicago camped in a luxurious lodge three miles above old Haskins’s place. A baby was born at the lodge, and the only scales the father could ob- tain on which to weigh the child was that with which Andy Haskins had weighed all the big fish he had caught in ten years. The baby tipped the séales at thirty five pounds!—New York Globe. Accounting for It Levi Cohen was looking very dejected. That morning he left the house with five pounds in his pocket to try his luck at the r. 4 , alas! he had returned at nightfall footsore and weary, ing in his possession but a half As in Much Greater Cases 2 fat lady among the freaks was penny. “Johnny, it was very wrong for you giving the living skeleton a little No wonder his better half was in a and the boy next door to fight.” friendly ai . “Subscribe for Lir bad temper. “ How is it,” she snapped, “We couldn't help it, father.” she said, “and you'll langh “that you're so unlucky at the races, and “Could you not have settled your dif and if you laugh, you're bound yet you always win at cards?” ferences by a peaceful discussion of the grow fat.” responded Levi, matter, calling in the assistance of . it's this way: I don’t prejudiced opinion, if need be shufile es. Tit-Bit “No, father, He was sure he whip me, and [ was sure I could whip In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE him, and there was only one way to find —Washington Star. Sure of Getting His “The first shall be last and the last Delicately Put shall be first,” quoted the devout citizen. “Ido hope you appreciate that in mar- “It makes no ditference to me how rying my daughter you marry a lars you arrange ‘em. replied the expert hearted girl? I'll get mine either way. “Ido, sir! And [ hope she inherits those qualities from her father.” —Washington Star, —Passing Sh LISTERINE. NCTM § pain cere Mntiseptic: ay Pra lh | i THINGS THAT NEVER WERE He: XISSING’S AWFULLY JoLLy axp ALL THAT—BUT DOESN'T THIS SEE FULLY FLAT AFTER 7