Life, 1898-03-17 · page 19 of 20
Life — March 17, 1898 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The four-panel cartoon depicts drunken men making absurd New Year's resolutions. Panel 1 shows a man claiming he'll stop drinking whiskey. Panel 2 has another man drunkenly declaring he's "resoluting all the time." Panels 3-4 show escalating chaos: a man vomiting and swearing they won't "groan till we moan," followed by a courtroom scene with "Next case!" **The satire:** This mocks the widespread tradition of making (and immediately breaking) New Year's resolutions. The joke is that these men are so drunk and disorderly that their resolutions are meaningless—they're already failing them in real-time. The progression from drinking to vomiting to legal trouble illustrates how hollow such promises were for habitual drinkers, particularly working-class men frequenting pubs. It's cynical humor about human weakness and self-deception.
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