Life, 1899-04-06 · page 9 of 20
Life — April 6, 1899 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 301 This page contains three illustrated segments satirizing early 20th-century politics and society: **Top illustrations** ("Historic Flirtations"): Period-costume drawings depicting classical/historical romantic scenarios—likely allegorical commentary on diplomatic or political relationships of the era. **"A Good Way to Expand"**: Criticizes Congress's reluctance to properly fund and house U.S. Ambassadors abroad. The article mocks the contradiction: Americans expect diplomatic influence globally while refusing to provide adequate resources. The satire suggests this penny-pinching undermines American credibility and power projection. **"Requiescat Non in Pace"**: Reports on a figure's (appears to be H. Barnet's) death, noting his prominence in life contrasted with his quiet passing—suggesting his death received less public attention than his controversial career warranted. **Bottom cartoon** ("Hallucinations"): A domestic humor piece about marital miscommunication.
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SIZOFRIED AND THE RUINE MAIDENS. HISTORIC FLIRTATIONS. A Good Way to Expand. ECENT London despatches describe Mr. Choate as hard at work house - hunting. How can our British friends maintain their confidence in our destiny as co-regulators with thom of all . creation when they have in London an oi! example of tho incorrigible unwillingness HALLUCINATIONS. Jones: MARIA, I'M SURE THERE'S SOMETHIXG CRAWLING UP MY BACK. Mrs. Jones: ou, 1 GUESS IT's Just YouR Paxcy. “No, It's Too LivELy.” of Congress to do ordinary things in an ordinarily sensible manner? It is « ridiculous thing that as long as we sond an Ambassador to London wo should not buy him a fit house to live in and pay him a salary suffl- cient for his maintenance, Tho prosent prospect of permanency for the Republic warrants usin buying and furnishing a dozen suitable houses in different capitals of Europo for our embassies and legations. Wo can't do It, not because thero is any sound objection to it, or because it costs too much, but because no Congress bas collective gumption enough to see that the thing is proper to be done, and energy enough to accomplish it, And yet some persons believe that a government that won't house and pay its Ambassadors properly is suited to conquer distant islands and administer wisoly tho affairs of the folks who live in them! BENRY Il, AND ROSAMOND. Requiescat Non in Pace. HERE seems to be no permanent rest for the late H. C. Barnet. He died apparently from natural causes, but has since been suspected of having been poisoned, has been disinterred, and, his contents being analyzed, the suspicion has been confirmed. This would seem to be trouble enough for a dead man, but it wus not the sum of Mr, Barnet’s adversities, since it has tran- spired that since his death he has been drawn on a jury and fined one hundred dollars for not attending, In life he was. retiring and inconspicuous, but in death he has abounded in excitement and publicity. ND £0 poor, overworked Mr, Alger has gone to Cuba on a govern- ment transport to recruit his health, and at the same time to discover incidentally what chances that fertile isle offers to Americans who have made money out of canned beef, Lire is informed con- fidentially that he did not leave behind him his resignation as Secretary of War in President McKinley's Cabinet.