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Life — January 17, 1918 — page 32: Life, 1918-01-17

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This page contains **humorous anecdotes and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main comic content includes: 1. **"The Curate Did His Best"**: A joke about class distinction in the Church of England. A country clergyman asks a woman if her baby was baptized. She replies that the junior curate ("your young man") "did what he could"—implying the curate performed an incomplete or inadequate baptism. The humor lies in the snobbish presumption that lower-ranking clergy perform their duties poorly. 2. **"How It Worked"**: A domestic humor piece about a couple who agreed to point out each other's faults but stopped speaking after 29 days—satirizing marital conflict resolution. 3. **"Its Name"**: A children's joke where a kindergartener, asked her country's name, replies "Tis of thee" (from the patriotic song "America"). The page also contains period advertisements for **Clicquot Club Ginger Ale** and **Clysmic table water**, typical of early 20th-century magazine advertising.

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