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This page from *Life* magazine contains several short humorous pieces and advertisements typical of early 20th-century American satire. **The cartoons and jokes** mock everyday social behaviors: umbrella borrowing (complaining that lending taxicab fare to suburbs is more burdensome than umbrellas), home-brew liquor during Prohibition (suggesting the recipe is worthless if it doesn't make people happy), and a workplace observation about "working men" merely existing rather than achieving. **The central illustration** titled "A Gift from the Gods" depicts a dramatic maritime scene where a crew member jumps overboard near Tahiti, apparently hoping to reach shore. The joke satirizes the crew's disappointment at missing port and the comical competition to retrieve the swimmer—capturing the absurdity of human desire conflicting with duty. **The advertisements** (Wardman Park Hotel, Hollenden Cleveland) represent typical period hospitality marketing. The page reflects *Life*'s formula: mixing observational humor about modern life with satirical commentary on human nature, all in accessible, witty formats for middle-class readers.

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from date of publication, 25 cents. Iss The text and illustrations in Lure are copyrighted, artly to Lire, Relis Howse, Breems Buildings, Fetter Len ANT SCISSORS i) Aut NuLLus The Luxurious Life “1 don't find so many people borrowing umbrellas and forgetting to return them,” marked the observant citizen. I believe the umbrella borrower was a less expensive friend,” rejoined the man who is always longing for the old days. “What you've got to lend now is taxicab fare all the way to the suburbs.” —Washington Star. Not Worth Trying Tips: Why not try a home-brew receipt? Tars: It’s this way. If 1 meet a friend under the influence of the forbidden, I'm fraid he isn't able to give the receipt cor- and when I meet a man who has had rer rectly, 3 a few drinks and doesn’t feel any happier, I'll be darned if I want the receipt. —Shoe Retailer. “Does he work?” “Only at being a working man.” —Buffalo Exp d British Possessions. Single current copies, 15 cents s prior to 1910 out of pri cents, Holidays for Everyone that way. to the best music in the Capital. just as at a beautiful Country Club. HARRY WARDMAN President Connecticut Avenue and Woodley WASHINGTON, De. jreat Britain, $5.00 a year so a yeai ablished every Thursday, simultaneously in the United State: Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. Additional’ postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, Back numbers, after three months in Great Britain England. For Reprint Righ , London, OLF for those who adore the game. Tennis for those who keep young Walking for many people for many reasons. Riding through woodland paths. Motoring for everybody. Dancing All these, within the City of Washington, ELMER DYER Park Hotel Road A GIFT PROM THE GoDs Single The foreign trade t HE people you want to meet in Cleveland have a habit of coming to THE HOLLENDEN CLEVELAND RATES with Bath $3.00 to $5.00 Double . $5.00 to $7.00 ) Twin Beds $6.00 Pursuit and Competition There were mutinous murmurs aboard a merchantman when word spread among the crew that the ship woul! not ter all, put in at Tahiti, but the mail over and go on. T. French soil, is a fittle island ¢ mid-Pacific, and the thirsty men aboord b been lying awake nights thinking of the drinks that lay ahead. T The disappointment was too much for}, one seaman, who, uttering a plaintive ery the sea and started to s the visible shore. The captain, much and a little envious, ordered the b: mer in the crew to go after him and him back before he reached land cited lookout kept all on deck post progress of the race. “He's gaining! He's gaining! dred yards—a hundred yards—fifty yards Five A yard to go. . Great} certain 1 on the wo hun-f In a dozen strokes hel! h more strokes! guns! What is it? What is it?” “Great guns, sir, he’s passed —American Legion It Wuen a man is short for a word he all psychology. h ways says ‘ “s London Office, Rolls Hou or, J. R. Tanguay, 386-388 $ unless accompanied by stan sible for the loss or cach this office two weeks prior to the dd ECOMIEHOOKS COM XUM