Life, 1892-09-29 · page 7 of 16
Life — September 29, 1892 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 175 **Top Section ("The March of Science"):** Three panel cartoon showing skeletal figures labeled "The Undertaker" and "The K.D." This appears to be satirizing business practices—likely criticizing "hustlers" and financial manipulators. The text discusses how American businessmen ("the bulk") previously dismissed "hustlers" as unreliable but are now recognizing their success and shifting allegiance accordingly. The skeleton imagery suggests a darker critique of these financial practices. **Middle Section:** A separate cartoon shows a well-dressed man with a suitcase, appearing to represent a traveling businessman or con artist figure. **Bottom Section:** "Our Fresh Air Fund" lists charitable donations to various causes and individuals—a typical fundraising feature common in Life magazine of this era. The page primarily satirizes changing American business culture and attitudes toward financial operators.
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THE MARCH OF SCIENCE. amusing, and a man who devotes all his time to business must take his amusement with his business or not at all. Allthe time that the Hustler bas been piling up ‘glittering suc- cesses,” there has been an element in every community that has refused to be dazzled by him. It is now beginning to be realized by the bulk of those citizens who are neither ‘‘ hustlers" nor ‘solid men” that in the long run the latter have come out ahead, after the manner of the hare and tortoise. What the American in the bulk really worships is the ‘coming out ahead,” and now he is shifting his allegiance to the tortoise. There are not so many sarcastic paragraphs aimed at ‘old fogeys” as once there were. You read the names of more gray-haired, respect- able men of education and decent lives, on the lists of Boards of Directors. A notion is beginning to prevail that in the long run ex- perience and integrity make a good pair to back in the financial game. These are not new ideas—they are as old as the fine stock that origin- ally made the country ; but they have been a little obscured for twenty years. It would not be surprising if before long men and women began to believe ardeatly again in many things which used to make life genuine, if not beautiful. Droch. NEW BOOKS. DOWN THE DANUBE. By Poultney Bigelow. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company. A Young Man of the Period. By André Thueriet. Translation by Max Maury. Chicago: Laird and Lee. Strikers and Communists, By Allan Pinkerton, New York: G. W. Dillingham, Al Sout from Pudge's Corners. By Jessie F. O'Donnell, New York: G.W. Dillingham. cT hicnntos: AND I ACCEPTED HIM.” “ARE YOU SURE YOU LOVE HIM, DEAR?” “WHY, MAMMA, HOW OLD FOGEY YOU ARE! WHAT IN THE WORLD HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH IT?" OUR FRESH AIR FUND. Frevioaaly acknowledged,$11,910.80 | Proceeds of Fair, held ce Elizabeth. "39'| Marie, Louise, Edna and Constance. For the Fresh Air Fund Daughters of Providence, Scranton, W.U.E. and J. E., Prov- idence, R. I. A. Nathan Carruth. Through Larchmont culating Library... Through Larchmont’ Cir- culating Library Dona- | Total. $12,254.43 comicbooks.com