Life, 1900-11-29 · page 8 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 428 This page contains satirical commentary and humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons. **"A Shrewd Guess"** mocks Solomon's biblical assertion that "charity begins at home" by suggesting one's charitable impulses reveal family size—implying people are selfish about supporting dependents. **The automobile section** ridicules the nascent automobile industry's attempts to adapt horse-carriage designs to horseless vehicles. The satire points out that features like "liveries" (decorative trim suitable for horse carriages) are absurdly out of place on automobiles, showing how new technologies awkwardly retained outdated aesthetic conventions. **"A Word in Season"** discusses Standard Oil's market dominance, noting the world divides into those owning Standard Oil stock versus those excluded—a jab at monopolistic economic inequality. **"One Reason"** presents a brief joke about Tommy Taddells being grateful for the four-year gap before the next Presidential election.
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*LIPE Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! ‘HE Court is about to open. Next week's Lire will contain the pictures of the twenty fair maidens who are about to be put upon trial for their beauty before an intelligent jury, consisting of all of our readers who care to express an opinion. The detailed explanation of Lire's Contest of Beauty, the rules governing the same, and the faces of the twenty beauties will appear in our next week’s issue. Remember that the prize to the reader who proves successful will be Ose Hunprep Dotvars, and that the contest begins next week. A Shrewd Guess. J UCKTON: Wasn't it Solomon who said that “charity begins at home "’? Ne» I shouldn’t wonder, judging from the extent of his family. NE of the exhibits at the recent Automobile Show was an elaborate and heavy open car- riage, with a high front box surmounted and adorned by a coachman and footman in conven- tional liveries. The equipage was absurd, because it was a horse equipage without the horses. The automobiles must work out new fashions for them- selves. They-are wheeled vehicles, and shapes that are adapted to wheels must be retained, but the details that are adapted to horse traction must be modified. Liveries that are suitable to horse vehicles are unsuited to horseless ones. Tight breeches, top hats and boots are almost as much out of place on an automobile as they would be on a yacht. Automobile shapes are improving, but it is hard to tell yet into what they will finally work out. As for liveries, the PROF. PAPYRUS WAS CONSIDERED THE VERY BEAU IDEAL oF INTELLECTUALITY — UNTIL, 118 DEADLY RIVAL, PROF. ROENTOEN, TOOK A SNAPSHOT OF MIM, “ WHY Do YOU CALL THAT SPECKLED HEN MACDUPP AND THE PIG BAukis?”* “ BECAUSE MACDUFP LAYS ON AND BARKIS 18 SWILLIN’.”” flat caps that came from France begin to be identified with the horseless carriages, but what the horseless livery coat and trousers will be is a problem that awaits the attention of the great masters of form. A Word in Season. LAUDE: Claire, I'm much interested in the strides science is taking toward the manufacture of diamonds. Crarre: You are just wasting your time, Claude. What would I look like in home-made diamonds? HE world tends more and more in these piping times to divide itself between those who own Standard Oil stock and those who don’t. It is not an equal division, and it grows less equal every day as more and more of the earth passes under the Standard Oil dominion. One Reason. Wat special reason have we to be thankful this year, Tommy?" asked the teacher of Tommy Taddells. : there'll be no other Presidential election for four replied Tommy. [HERE is a mistaken impression in many quarters that no knowledge is fit to use till it has been filtered through a college professor.