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# Page 266 from Life Magazine - Political Satire The main article "A Very Great Difference" compares a U.S. Senator (specifically a "Silver Senator") to a gas machine, criticizing the Senator's commitment to financial panic over the nation's wellbeing. The text argues the comparison, while harsh, becomes clear when observing Senate proceedings. The cartoon "In the Gloming" (left) depicts two men in formal dress in what appears to be a building's interior, with dialogue about kissing. This appears to be social/romantic satire unrelated to the Senator critique. The right side contains miscellaneous humor pieces: "An Autumn Reflection of a Woman" (poetry), "In the Cherokee Strip" (dialogue joke), and "His One Reader" (about Senator Peffer's speech-reading). The page mixes political commentary with lighter domestic and social humor typical of Life's satirical format.
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266 -LIFE- A VERY GREAT DIFFERENCE. T is cruel and unjust to compare a Silver Senator to a gas machine. The usual gas machine is constructed on business principles that were apparently un- known in that section of the country where the metallic orator was put together. Moreover, the most ordinary and unpretentious gas machine is a willing worker for the public good, whereas the spouting biped from the silver region is straining y nerve to keep the entire country in a prolonged financial panic rather than lose a dollar from his own pocket. But it is intellectually that the comparison is especially cruel. ‘The gas machine lays no claim to mental superiority, but if the dullest citizen will, fora few moments, watch one of these devices in operation, and then turn to the floor of the United States Senate, he will realize the brutality of the comparison, IN THE GLOAMING. Chollie (somewhat near-sighted): 18 THAT Voice (shouting): YOU, DAHLING ? Voice (whispering) : Chollie: Come DAHLING. ALL RIGHT! DEAR. DOWN AND KISS ME, “UP TO DAT AN AUTUMN REFLECTION OF A WOMAN. HEN the days are warm and jolly, Hearts forget their melancholy. When the breakers on the beach Only laugh, and never preach, Wisdom shakes the hand of folly. Matrons cold, discreet and stately, Maidens fashioned quite sedately, In the balmy August days, Lose their prim and proper ways ; Love of pleasure comes innately. Now these things have waned completely, And our bathing suit is neatly Folded in our trunk aw So we sigh, refiect and say— How could I act indiscreetly ? Mary Raymond Garrettson. IN THE CHEROKEE STRIP. ELLO, Bill; how do you hap- pen to be here? “Traded a return ticket to York for a farm.” “ What are you doing now?” “ Waiting for some other d—d fool with a return ticket.” “ New HIS ONE READER. HERE'S a man who reads all of ator Peffer's speeches —every word.’ “No; is there? is he?" “ Senator Peffer.” Who in the world comicbooks.com