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Life — November 22, 1917 — page 40: Life, 1917-11-22

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This Life magazine page contains several satirical pieces: **"Nothing Was Said"** (top left): A humorous poem by J.L. Harbour depicting a couple's conversation where neither directly states their feelings, instead using evasive language and contradictions. The satire mocks indirect communication and emotional avoidance in relationships. **"Walk on Your Head"** (center): A patent medicine advertisement featuring Francis Cashel Brown claiming his discovery rejuvenated him from age 67 to appearing 35. This satirizes the era's widespread quack health remedies and fraudulent medical claims that promised miraculous cures without explanation. **"The Renegade"** (right): A brief satirical piece about the German Kaiser (Wilhelm II) losing his temper at his wife in their palace, sardonically attributed to "Kaiser Wilhelm" as the source. It mocks the Kaiser's volatile temperament and authoritarian behavior. The page exemplifies Life's satirical approach to contemporary social absurdities, relationship dynamics, medical fraud, and political figures of the period.

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Nothing Was “Said” T is very lovely,” she admired. “Tam so glad you like it.” smiled. “How can I help it?” she bes “T don’t want you to help it,” laughed * And is it for me?" she queried “For whom else could it be?” he parried. “That is not saying it is for me,” she flung at him with a coy look “No?” he interrogated. “But is it for me?” she flushed. “T have not said “It is nothing to me,” she scorned. so?” he sneered she snapped. well; let it be so,” he * he evaded. quenched. “That is sfactory to me,” she monotoned, “ And to me,” he jumped. Jothing could suit me better,” she frowned. “Then we mect no more,” he strangled. “Very well,” she peeved, as she slowly, tortuously, sinuously, writhing- ly withdrew from the room, while he gasped and purpled: “Allis over between us!” JL. Harbour. B ZING a person of good taste, you will, in fashion, Be not the first to don the new, Nor yet the last to put the old aside. all time! Two years years young. \ lished. My wonderful health I've been since employing it. o T was an nts in men and wo rously sick, but, not being. a physician myself, antee I give is to relund your money. promptly. if you return t er of Caw’s Pen & Ink Co. for 4o years, and in offering my great discovery, I shali adhere to the well-known policy of the Caw’s full value. Remit by check, money order, bank draft or registered letter. FRANCIS CASHEL BROWN, Dept. 8, 76 Duane St., New York N. B. The way I know that my discovery has effected the above cures on myself and that my rejuvenation is permanent, is that it is a nature treatment and have Also the unmistakable feeling of buoy WALK ON YOUR HEAD I'm just a plain business man; never studied medicine nor anatomy; made the most remarkable health discovery of 1 believe I have old man afflicted with organic derangement, dyspepsia, insomnia, catarrh and general lassitude: to-day | am 67 fictions and “ oldness” are absolutely gone. ~My rejuvenation convinces me that I have discovered the most simple and effica- cious health restorer known to man, Nothing like it ever before pub- It is neither food nor drink; no concoction nor contrivance of any kind; no expense and no trouble at all. overy has given me the Vital Force, the Appetite, the Digestion, the Sleep, the abundant energy of an acrobat. ical examiner of one of America’s largest insurance companies 3 good a risk as a man of 35." My illustrated booklet tells the complete story of how, at 65 years. I found Youth and Better Health On receipt of Three Dollars ($3.00) T will, c in subst it's the most reasor ou a copy. Physicians and lay dy they ever he it cannot harm he book in ten days. npany to give d no other remedy ery organ and member of my body convinces me that I have stayed th There's, some: The Renegade The King of Rumania is a rene- xade Hohenzollern, —Kaiser Wilhelm H iser stamped into his wife's boudoir in the royal palace at Pots- dam and banged his helmet down on the marble-topped table with such ferocity that several pieces of marble were chipped off. “Now, Will.” remonstrated — the And, being a person of good taste, you are a yearly subscriber to Lire, and are about now compiling your list of per- sons to whom you are going to send a Aare zy ton Kaiserin, “please do be more gentle!” year’s subscription to Lire as a Christ- Herbert Tareyton London Smoking Mixture “Gentle be darned!" shouted the mas gift. % 1b. 50c Sampl uest Kaiser, fixing his wife with a cold, Pale-Topacco Co. , SBWestt5™ St New fork. hard eye. “How can I be gentle when 1 remember that Ferdinand of Ru- mania, that renegade Hohenzollern, still has a few square miles of terri- tory that we haven't conquered!” To Persons of Small Means, $1.50 To Well-to-do Persons, $3 To “Very Rich Maecenases,” $5 Le Rire aux Eclats W. Journal of Episodes of the Life at the Front The editors of this journal, conducted in French by French soldiers for French y soldiers, have sent to Lire a few files, consisting of ten numbers each, to be disposed HTL of to American collectors on the sliding scale of prices shown above, which includes S postage. The profits of the publication are used to purchase comforts for the soldiers at the front. The proceeds of the sale of these files will he sent by Lire. direct to the soldier- publishers, without expense or deductions. A file will be forwarded immediately cn receipt of any of the prices mentioned above. Make checks payable to Life Publishing Company 17 West 31st Street New York City