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This page contains several short humorous pieces typical of Life's satirical format: **"Enjoying Bad Health"**: A doctor-patient joke about a hypochondriac so obsessed with imagined illnesses that when the doctor mentions kidney disease causes *no* pain, the patient exclaims his symptoms match perfectly—the irony being his psychosomatic complaints are entirely self-invented. **"The Renewal of Love"**: A newlywed buys flowers to apologize after a quarrel, the joke being that reconciliation requires such grand gestures. **"The Flapper Who Never Bobbed"**: A woman resists the 1920s trend of bobbed hair; her companion warns against using brilliantine on certain days, likely a veiled reference to social propriety or dating conventions. **"Romeo's Ladder"**: Appears to be a visual gag (image not fully clear). The page is primarily filled with **advertisements**—Wetzel tailoring and Royal Mail cruise lines dominate—making this essentially an advertising-heavy issue rather than substantive satirical content by modern standards.

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Enjoying Bad Health A confirmed hypochondriac, meeting his personal physician on the street, said to him “Doctor, | have just come from a pop- ular medical lecture and [ am much afraid that I have kidney trouble.” “But, my dear fellow,” said the doctor, “The Hour Glass” Life’s but a glass of hours, and they Glide swift as Vanish like cowslips seen in May, indrops down a stem, None can cajole or cozen them, Protract, retard, elude, deny Even while I whisper, “I love; Amen!” Gone is the instant, soft as a sigh, Never to be again. Ab then, my dear, with those dark eyes, Altering like stars at every whim Or bubble thought that may arise And break upon the goblet’s brim; Which of the twain is slipping past ?— smiling, “the curious thing about that disease is that the victim does not ex perience the least pain or discomfort.” “By Heaven!" gasped the hypochon driac. “My symptoms exactly!” - Blatter (Munich). Time or your beauty? Who can say? I gaze, long, marvel; but at last Cannot bid either stay. —Weaiter de la Mare, in G. K.'s Weekly Favoritism “Why does the manager scem so par- tial to young Saunders?” “Because he's the only fellow on the staff who isn't taking correspondence les sons to become manager himself!" (London). The Renewal of Love Youxc Newtywep (to florist): Give me a dozen American Beauties; 1 want The Flapper Who Never Bobbed to forgive my wife for the quarrel we “VOUK RPRAIDS ARE TERRIBLY SLIP had this morning.—Collier’s, PERY, DOR FA. 1 DON'T THINK YOU OUGHT To USE BRILLIANTINE ON THE DAYS WHEN WE HAVE a As clear as a DATE PLeasune-stexee (at murder trial, to —Le Rire (Paris) usher): I say, is it po: lates here?—Punch, ROMEO'S LADDER si & for the day book on how to write t stories. le to get choco. —Milwaukee Journal, shed every Thursday ancously in the United States, na British Title registered in U ntributi ned unless accompanied by stomped and d enve e id itself responsible for the loss ¢ return of ted contributions of address should reach this o two weeks prior tions in Live ave copyrighted. For Repri How. tre, Rolls Breams Buildings, RQxAl “The Comfort Route” Utmost incomfort aboard famous arrangemen WEST INDIES Jan, 2158t—29 days Feb. 20th—30 days Two de luxe cruises sailing away from cold gray Winter to isles of tropical beauty —to historic, picturesque cities— to the romantic Spanish Main — Nassau, Havana, Jamaica, Panama, Curacao, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Fort de France, St. Pierre, Virgin Islands, Porto Rico, Bermuda — on the superb OHIO, 27,180 tons displacement. Rates, $250 up; or, including shore excursions, $350 up. Passengers may stop over at Bermuda and return by the ARAGUAYA BERMUDA men is recognized Islands of perpetual sprii “The Gulf Stream Playground” g —48 hours of delightful sailing on the luxurious throughout the ARAGUAYA, 17.500 tons displacement. The peacefulness of world. these “Enchanted Isles” affords a complete rest {rom the every- day rush. Scenic wonders, land and water sports provide a variety of delightful recreation. Regular sailings from New York, December to April — $70 up, round trip. Write for illustrated booklets The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. New York , Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, taco, Los Angeles, ‘ouvert, Montreal, Toronto, H Lorabteshed 1478 Qund 4 E Forty-Fourth Street NEW YORK prestige of “TZEL as tailors for gentle- Copyright, by Wetart comicbooks.com