Life, 1901-07-11 · page 15 of 20
Life — July 11, 1901 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** A satirical drawing of a man surrounded by cobra snakes, captioned "When Shall We Three Meet Again?" This appears to reference someone (possibly a public figure named Buckton) making romantic pursuits in old age—a social joke about elderly men's behavior. **"The Good Work" Story/Cartoon:** This is the page's primary satire, depicting a British military commander in South Africa during the Boer War. The commander orders the destruction of Boer villages, burning farmhouses, and denying shelter to civilians—brutal tactics of collective punishment. He then instructs his secretary to spin this as "vindicating" England's honor in dispatches home. **The Satire:** Life mocks British military brutality in the Boer War by having the commander candidly describe war crimes while simultaneously planning propaganda to justify them to the British public. The contrast between his actual orders (destroy everything, terrorize civilians) and his sanitized public messaging exposes the hypocrisy of imperial warfare conducted under claims of moral superiority. **Bottom cartoon:** Appears unrelated domestic humor about a dog's new collar.
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“WHEN SHALL WE TUREE MEET AGAIN?” «{PQUCKTON seems to be making desperate love all The Good Work. around this scason—and he’s over eighty.” “Yes, Old men will be old men.” . 5 the British forces put his head of his tent a Med to his orderly to have the Major commanding the advance division summoned. * he said, as that funetionary approached, “have my instructions been carried out?” ir,” replied the Major. ed an order that every Bocr village will be ither men, women nor children shall have shelter?” “ And did you burn down all those farmhouses that you told me about?” tt 'y one.” “And have you left nothing undone to impress upon these half civilized wretches that there will be no quarter of any sort as long as they try to protect their homes?” said the Commander-i ef, turni ix secretary “write out adespateh to the home papers, saying that it will be only a short time now before the honor of old England will be completely vindicated.” LIKES Ts NEW COLLAR, JonN?" | PROM DERRY comicbooks.com