Life, 1899-11-09 · page 8 of 20
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# "The Plague of Frogs" - Life Magazine Cartoon This satirical cartoon depicts a chaotic scene at what appears to be a French café ("Café de 3 Balls") overrun by frogs of various sizes. The illustration references the Biblical plague of frogs from Exodus, repurposing it as social commentary. The signs visible—"Bill of Fare," "Frog's Legs," "Frog in the Throat," and "Use Havana"—suggest this is mocking French dining culture and the popularity of frog consumption. The cartoon likely satirizes either French culinary practices or perhaps the influx of French cultural influence in America during this period, treating French tastes as an invasive "plague" worthy of biblical comparison. The chaotic composition emphasizes absurdity and social disruption.
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368 Important Golf News. MONG the “sportiest” Inks that wo have seen are those of the Hoot-awa’ Golf Club, ‘The fourth hole (called Pilgrim's Progress) {8 particularly rich in natural sporty hazards, Directly in front of the toe and some fifty yards away stands tho residence of Mr. Michael O'Hoolihan ; somo thirty yards further is the bigh embank- mont of the railroad, the Intermediate space being oceupled as a hen preserve and horse pond. On: tho south sido of the railroad track aro situated tho extensive consorva- tories of Orchid Hybrid & Co., and ono hundred and twenty-fvo yards beyond, across a little silvery stream and just this side of a granite quarry, lies the green, Both sides aro thickly wooded, but a nice drivo of tu bundred and twenty-five yards, {f high, will surmount these difficulties. The fine growth of Scotch heather on the Unks of tho Billy-cock Golf Club is the envy *LIFE* of all visiting players, Tho secret of tho growth bas ut lust been divulged. It seems. that Mr, Philip Putter, one of the club's most enthusiastic mombers, spent a week last full on the St, Andrews links in bonnio Scotland, and the seeds of the heather find- ing lodgment under tho shelter of tho hobnails of his golf shoes were spread broadcast over tho home links when he ro- turned. A standing offer of twenty-five dollars por patr 1s now made for any old THE PLAGUE OF FROGS. Pair of shoes that have beon worn ovor Scotch links, A nico question was raised at the Wossex County Club the other day, A ladies’ threo- some, with one set of clubs and no caddies, was on the fifth green, and after waiting tho regulation twenty minutes for them to putt out, a member of a mixed foursome — fully equipped —drovo on to the green, After a long discussion of tho right of the foursomo to pass, the Green Committeo decided in favor of the threesome, as it transpired that one member of the foursome was a visitor who had been on the course before within thirty day: The Vital Point. AGGLES: What do you think of this discussion as to doctors intentionally killing off incurable patients? Wacotes: I don’t think it is nearly so important as their unintentionally killing off curable ones. ” FROG ITH THROAT 2 ‘THERE is in the extreme southern end of the South American Conti- nenta race of intellectually impoverished human beings. They are the Patago- nians, and they need civiliziog. - Why doesn’t some great nation attempt to civilize them? Well, for one reason, there’s no money in it. Still, this may not be the real reason. Nations are currently supposed to be actuated by higher motives than this.