Life, 1918-06-06 · page 30 of 40
Life — June 6, 1918 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **humor page** from *Life* magazine featuring short jokes rather than a single cartoon. The main illustrated item, "A Plank Movement," shows what appears to be soldiers carrying lumber, likely making a pun on the military term "movement." The jokes satirize **everyday ironies and social observations**: - A hotel clerk's rudeness is excused because he's enlisted in naval aviation - A witness's jail sentence was served whitewashing a cell for a dishonest lawyer (reversing victim/perpetrator roles) - A man refuses a vacuum bottle because he'd drink anything worth keeping immediately - A Scottish soldier delays introducing a pretty girl because she hasn't paid her car fare yet—emphasizing Scottish frugality as comedic character trait The "Souvenir" anecdote humorously recounts a soldier's near-miss with artillery during WWI. The humor relies on understatement and ironic juxtaposition rather than political commentary. The page is largely advertisements otherwise.
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Mistakes We Make Trate Lavy: That attendant over there doesn’t act as courteous and obsequious as he should. I wish to report him. Hotet. Cuerk: Then you'll have to write his commanding officer a letter, madam. He's in naval aviation, —Sun-Dial, Lawyer: Have you ever been in jail? Witsess: Yes, sir, once. Lawyer (triumphantly): Ab! For how long? Witvess: Long enough to whitewash a cell which was to be occupied by a lawyer who cheated one of his clients. —Literary Digest. Acext: This vacuum bottle will keep anything hot or cold for seventy-two hours. Mr, Tipetes: Don't want it. If I have anything worth drinking 1 don't want to keep it seventy-two hours. Souvenir Private Jenkins, home from France, was seated in the village inn one evening surrounded by a group of admirers, “1 suppose,” said old Farmer Wurzel, “ye had some narrow escapes out yonder.” “Well,” answered the Tommy, “ noth. ing to speak of much, but I remember one night I felt like a drink, so I goes down to the estaminet, I'd just got me ’and on the door-knob, when just thea old Fritz sent one of ‘is big ones over right on the house, and, believe me, it knocked the ‘ole blooming show down, and left me standing there, silly like, with the knob of the door in me ‘and.” —Tit-Bits, Thrift Sandy and John were sitting in a car when a pretty girl got in and smiled at the former, He raised his hat. “Do you know her?” asked the Eng. lishman, “Oh, yes, very weel,” the Scot replied. “Well, shall we go and sit over be- side her, and then you can_ introduce me?" asked his companion. Wait a bit,” returned the canny Scot, “She hasna paid her fare yet.” —Boston Transcript. A PLANK MOVEMENT —Pittsburg Chronicte-Telegraph, Lire is published every Thursday, simultancously in the United States, Great Britain, Lire is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Britain ay be obtained f Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. $5.00 a year sellers in all the principal cities in the world. The foreign trade su in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.03 a year; ify’s London Office. Rolls House, Breams Buildings. London, E. in to Canada, $2 cents. Single current copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, after three months ritions will be retu unl companied by stampe from date of publication, 25 cents, Issues prior to 1910 out of print. rkosee ee ald Mell reamoneihte forthe leteier' aes The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain sc of chene of daieis GNGWid Veeck WIG OMGe ten days. prise io ike da epply to Live, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England, issue to be offected, f . ofice ten days pri. What is the Stock Exchange? An interesting article re- viewing the early history of the New York Stock Exchange and describing the character of its or- ganization, has been re- printed from the Invest- ment Department of Scribner’s Magazine. For a free copy write C@D FRIENDS G@DD CIGARS CMD STORIES Investors’ Service Bureau SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE 594 FIFTH AVE. « NEW YORK COURSE KING OF TABLE WATERS