Life, 1900-10-11 · page 22 of 22
Life — October 11, 1900 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Cartoon ("Poor Father!"):** A dark domestic satire depicting a dying father who requests boiled pork before death. The mother refuses, saying she needs the pork for his funeral feast. The joke critiques working-class priorities and Victorian morbidity—the mother's concern for the funeral meal supersedes her husband's final wishes. It's labeled as satire by "Moonshine," a regular Life cartoonist. **Page Content:** Mostly **advertisements** (Lea & Perrins sauce, Martell's brandy, Evans ale, Bicycle playing cards, railroad travel, and banking services). These ads reflect upper-middle-class consumer goods and leisure activities typical of 1900 America. The cartoon's gallows humor—treating death and poverty with irreverent comedy—was characteristic of Life magazine's satirical approach to social commentary.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
October 11, 1900, - ‘ginal and Genuine worcester sire” Ladies, at luncheon parties and at all home- meals, will find a delicacy of flavor in all dishes savored with this sauce-for soups, fish, meats, gravy. game, salads etc. POQR FATHER! EMILY (who"has just come‘downstairs from a sick: boiled pork): PLRAse, MOTHER, RATHER Says hp wovld LIKE & BIT O° BOILED PORK AFORE ' DIES, MOTHER: GO AND TELL YER PATHER ‘2 CAN'T 1AVB ANY, spr POR THR FUNERAL, —Moonshine. Are you an Ale Drinker? Do you like a rich, mellow flavor, creamy head and. transparent clearness? THEN TRY ings in the world and 1 Only Ale Without Sediment— @ revelation’ to old-time ale drinkers. Any dealer everywhere tolll supply it. where the father Iles on the point of death, to mother cooking “‘AGenuine Old Brandy made from Wine.” — Medical Press Upndonl eo RP. } Red mond, v te »| Kerr&Co.)2 BANKERS, 41 WALL ST., x, ee come Members, ., Securities [ A} l HREE S . d touget cd wold 0a % N, St ~ commission, : Stock Exchange. iealoos e h-Grade Investment Securities, erent offers} \ HLLADEUPHIA ORESPONDERIS. AHAM, KERR & CO. AT ALL BARS AND RESTAURANTS. a a 1S OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., MEW YORK. Playing Cards You hold GOOD CARDS. “Card Games, and How to Play Them” a 120 page book mailed for six flap ends from Bicycle boxes, or five 2c. stamps. Dept. 27 THE U. S. PLavina Carp Co., Cincinnati, O. Faster than Ever to California CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY ‘THE OVERLAND LIMITED leaves Chicago 6.30 p. m, daily via Chicago- Union Pacific & North-Western Line, ar- rives San Francisco 5.15 afternoon of third day and Los Angeles 7.45 next morning. No change of cars; all meals in Dining Cars. Buffet Library Cars with barber. The best of everything. The Pacific Express leaves 10.30 p. m. daily, Tourist Sleepers daily to California and Oregon. Personally conducted excursions every week, Send 4 cents postage for ‘* Cali- fornia Illustrated” to