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# Life Magazine, March 10, 1898 This page features a cartoon titled "Nowadays" showing two silhouetted businessmen in conversation. The dialogue reads: - "I have just taken my newly graduated grandson into business with me." - "How are you getting on with him?" - "Well, I see to please him." The satire mocks the generational shift in business dynamics of the 1890s. Rather than the traditional hierarchy where experienced businessmen trained younger generations with strict discipline, the cartoon suggests grandfathers now defer to their educated grandsons' preferences. This reflects anxieties about changing workplace authority and the perceived softening of business mentorship during America's transition to modern corporate culture. The joke implies the elder's loss of control over his own enterprise.
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VOLUME XXxXI. NEW YORK, MARCH 10, 1898. NUMBER 795. Fntered at the New York Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. Copyright, 1898, by Mircuxtt & MituER, NOWADAYS, “1 HAVE JUST TAKEN MY NEWLY GRADUATED GRANDSON INTO BUSINESS WITH ME." “HOW ARE YOU GETTING ON WITH Hin?” “WELL, | SEEM TO PLEASE HIM,"