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# Life Magazine Page 147 Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 1900s *Life* magazine humor. **Top cartoons**: Two nearly identical silhouettes show a man exclaiming about drinking "sweet Nature" and another saying "This one will—" The jokes appear to reference temperance debates or concerns about alcohol consumption—likely mocking either prohibitionists or drinkers. **"A Transformer"**: A brief dialogue joke about a man changing fashion styles in the city. **"Reflections of a Man with Whiskers"**: The main text piece features a wealthy man complaining about being called "notorious" and defending himself against criticism regarding his foreign philanthropy and involvement with a Republic (likely Venezuela, given the "three hundred per cent" mine reference). The piece satirizes wealthy philanthropists' self-justifications and American foreign business interests. The lower illustration depicts a domestic scene, likely humorous commentary on family life.
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"Ak, ecstasy! Merely thus to drink in deep breaths of sweet Netare —" H raises the question (which bas been fre- | quently put to President Hadley) whether a P| university can accept money asa gift that 1as been acquired by questionable methods. Droch, New Publications. Of Such ts the Kingtom. My Clara Vawter Hinstrated by Will Vawter. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company. A handsome little book for children, Thomas Paine, By Ellery Sedgwick. Boston: Small, Maynard und Company, \ a | i The latest of the Beacon Biographics. {] -Concisely writton and interesting. 4 i S ij J | “GEORGE, DID YOU Do THIS?" WHAT L WITH THIS DINKY FY ON MY BIRTIDAY ? GUESS AGAIN, CENT por 1 ‘LIFE: he House of a Hundred Lights, ly Frederle Ridgely Torrence. Bos: (on; Small, Maynard and Company. A cheap imitation of Omar Kay- yam, that sells for one dollar, aud is hardly worth while, Mary Paget, By Minna Caroline Smith, New Yor The Macmillan Company, A novel of Shakespeare's timo, in which the poet is dragged in as, one of the characters. Hather strained and not very interesting. Brook Farm. By Lindsay Swift, New York: The Mactulllan Company. This book contains much bith- erto unpublished — information about Brook Farm, Well written and interesting. Te stanza appeared in Lirr of September 28, 1899 : Yet stay, My lady love tnside, No reins —do thy endeavor. Get up! Along side streets now gilde, While | hug on forever ! While this is in the Auto. mobile Magazine for February, 1900 : My lady ought to be Inside — Auto! Do thy endeavor! Retolexs through lampte aitde While I hug on forever Which shows that the pla- giarist is still a-plagiarizing. TIN HATCHET YOU GAVE MF. A Transformer. «¢ TS he really such a great reformer ? “Oh, yes. No man in the city has done more than he to change the styles in vice.” Reflections of a Man with Whiskers. OME people call me famous; the British call me notorious; and while I am well known, and re- spectable, and married, 1 am not considered sacred. Iam unobtru- sive, live simply, and am at the head of a Repub- lic which has the misfortune to be rich in gold mines, Foreign philanthropists own the mines, which pay about three hundred yer cent. per annum, and they use invectives and couple my name with malodorous adjectives, when I make them disgorge ten per cent. for the Republic. When this debate is over, I guess 1'l! confiscate the whole shooting match. AM told I am not as comely as Adonis; my whiskers blow in the breezes of British persiflage; the Anglo-Saxon de- nounecs my table manners; he avers Tam a stranger to bath and pocket hand- kerchief, and he hints I am rude to the gentle hobo and mining stranger within my gates, I have digested these evidences of neighborly feeling, and as I felt & time might come when I would be picked on, and perhaps treated with discourtesy, I bought ammunition. The gold mine philanthropists, flerce British patriots from Jerusalem, Germany and London, have hinted that the Empire would be in danger until the Republic was turned over to them and 1 was