Life, 1899-07-27 · page 5 of 20
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# "That Cloak Episode" - Life Magazine Satire This illustration depicts a historical scene titled "That Cloak Episode," referencing Elizabeth Atterbury giving Sir Walter Raleigh a quarter of newly discovered America. The main cartoon shows an elaborately dressed noblewoman (likely representing Elizabeth I or a court figure) with a man in period costume beside a carriage. The accompanying text presents three brief moral dialogues: an old gentleman warns a boy that smoking and gambling lead to poverty; Uncle Sam advises a young "John Bull" (Britain personified) that friendship matters more than material similarity. The overall piece appears to satirize courtly pretension and colonial-era power dynamics while embedding practical moral lessons about vice and international relations.
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THAT CLOAK EPISODE IN MEMORY OF WHICH, ELIZABETH AFTERWARDS GAVE S11 WALTER ABOUT A QUAKTER OF THE NEWLY DISCOVERED AMERICA, LD GENTLEMAN (to little boy who is smoking a cigarette): My boy, don't you know that every one of those filthy weeds you smoke is a nail in your coffin? “Well, ‘tain’t none of your funcral, is ity” ? ITTTIS wrong to gamble, 80 they say, Or bo to any man a debtor, Yet ho who bets is any day ‘As good a8 ho who Is no better, W. H.C. Hale, NCLE SAM: Don’t you think I’m getting more like you every day? Joux Bui: You are, my boy, and I am only afraid of one thing. “What's that?” “We may grow so much alike that we will love the same things.” comicbooks.c