Life, 1890-07-17 · page 11 of 16
Life — July 17, 1890 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine satirizes military cavalry training through silhouette illustrations. The top section, titled "The New Cavalry Company: Our Artist and His Kodak Camera," depicts various cavalry exercises and maneuvers in exaggerated, humorous poses—soldiers performing drills, wrestling on horseback, and conducting formations. The satire targets the perceived absurdity of traditional cavalry tactics in a modern era. The phrase "Our Artist and His Kodak Camera" suggests the magazine is documenting these training methods through photography, implying they're worth mocking as outdated. Below are two brief joke exchanges: one about a tourist and brakeman debating lunch timing, another defining ambition as "feeling that you want to do something that you know you can't." The cartoons mock ceremonial military practices as increasingly irrelevant.
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* LIFE - THE NEW CAVALRY COMPANY. OUR ARTIST AND HIS KODAK CAMERA, Sawer Exercise in Tuxxe Motions, “One.” Extract from Orders: R&CUrts WHEN JOINING WILL ACCUSTOM THEIR HORSES TO THR BUGLE AB SOON AS PossinLe.”” g 9, YS A RELIC OF THE FAST. A PULL-PLEDGED 1KUOreR. WRESTLING ON HORSEBACK. INK MOKNING AFTER DRILL Sergeant: Now, six, steapy, steady, THERE IS NO NRCESSITY OF YOUR LEAVING YOUR HORS WHEN YOU DRAW YOUR SAMRE, Dut Recart, Sergeant: Now, mex, Nesnen Ove, Keer YOUR HORSE'S HEAD UP. NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR THAT. AMBITION DEFINED. id skeet Do we stop here long enough for luncheon ? ee M* son, define ambition.” BRAKEMAN: We do, unless you insist on’eating a “Well, it’s always feeling that you want to do whole sandwich. something that you know you can't.’ comicbooks.com