Life, 1899-05-04 · page 19 of 20
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This cartoon satirizes parenting and moral decline in the late 1800s. An adult (likely a father) confronts a young boy about smoking cigars. The child defensively claims he learned the habit from his father—suggesting parental hypocrisy and that adults model bad behavior they forbid children from adopting. The joke's caption emphasizes the irony: the curate (a clergy member, representing moral authority) is shocked the boy would smoke, yet the boy points out his father does the same. The final punchline—"You can just bet it would that; this is one of his cigars"—drives home the critique that parents cannot credibly teach virtue while practicing vice. This reflects period anxieties about moral education and generational decline, a common theme in *Life* magazine's social commentary during the 1890s.
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1809 - 35th - 1899 Annual Statement OF THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY. Chartered 1863. (Stock.) Life and Accident Insurance. JAMES G. BATTERSON, Pres't. Hartford, Conn., January 1, 1899, PAID-UP CAPITAL, $1,000,000. ASSETS, Real Estate, ac Cash on band and tn Bank, = Loans on bond abd mortwige, real estate, Interest accrued but not due, = Loans on collateral securtty, Yoans on this Company's Pollctes, Deferred Life Premiatns, Premiums due and ‘unreported on Life Potte! es, United States Bonds, = State, county, juntetpal ibonds, Ratiroad stocks and bonds, Kank stocks, Other stocks and Londs, Total Assets, - LIABILITIES. Reserve, 4 per cent., Life Department, - Reserve for Re-naurance, Accident Dep't, - Present value Installin Life Policies, Reserve for Ciatins restated for Employers, ~ Losses in pros exe Of adjustmen . Life Premiums pad In advance, Special Reserve for unpatd taxe Spectal Reserve, Llatditty Departmes 100, Reserve for anticipated change In rute of Interest, 400,000.00 Total Liabilities, - - + = §2t Excess Security to Polley-holders, = $4,105,817.10 Surplus to Stockholders, = = =~ §8,105,817.10 STATISTICS TO DATE. Live Deratxent. Life Insnrance tn force, = $97,852,821.00 New Life Insurance written in 1808, > 16.087.651,00 TH . i, RISING: GENERATION, Insurance on installment plan at commuted value, Curate (etth pathos): ow! pean cuttD, woULD rf Nor Maxx YOUR row rATHEN's MEANT BLFED IF ME| Returned to Pollcy-holderaln 1608. = .282.008.08 coup srz rou xow? Returned to Policy-tiolders since 1864, = Tommy: YoU CAN JUST BET IT WOULD THAT; THIS 18 ONE OP MIB CIOARS.—Fun. Acctvext DEPARTMEST. a Nomber Accident Claims id in 1898, Whole number Accident Claims patd, Portable Houses EuaGS Reticle ace bu Totals, Returned to Policy-holderw in 1808, = -§ 2,626,500.76 Returned to Pollcy-holders since 1864, - - 36,Y96,956.27 , BREMAN’ § THE ORIGINAL EDWARD Y. PRESTON, Sup't of Agencies. PE PS I N J.B. LEWIS, M. D., Surgeon and Adjuster. ) oom || Like Old Glory, and Sea-Sickness. A Ruy your children a Fey. House i your ¢ AT Others are Initattens, which has braved the battle hay can erect it, For particulars write to 2 Mershon & Morley, Saginaw, Mich. We sod the Breese fon more thas manutacture portable houses for Hunters’ 5 a bundred years, so Cubins, Summer Resort Cottages, and a dozen other purposes, E OLD CROW MERSHON & MORLEY LIFE BINDER, Ee RYE, CHEAP, STRONG AND DURABLE. Wil Hold a6 8 for about the same time, 26 Numbers, F very va Ax Irishman, in order to celebrate the advent of a] stood in the very van of all new era, went out onalittle lark. He did not get Mailed to any part of the United States for @ whiskcys and has withstood heme untll threo o'clock in the morning, and was| 81.00: the ascaults of the Goths and uncovering « bunch of soft goodn showed bi 2] vandels who vainly aspired uncovering a bunch of soft g js, shows | enamel triplets, Tho Irishman looked up at the clock, which . - to the honor of feader. said three, then at the three of a kind In the nurse's} Address Office of ‘‘ LIFE, . Quality will tell. arms, and sald: “Ot'm not superstitions, bat thank! Hivens that Ol didn't come homoattwelro” —, |__-« #9 West Thirty-first Street, — New Yorks H. B. KIRK & CO, N. ¥ —Exchange. SAGINAW, MICHIGAN © comicbooks.com