Life, 1901-08-15 · page 7 of 20
Life — August 15, 1901 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 127 The top cartoon, titled "To Avoid Delay," satirizes overcrowded automobiles. It depicts a car so packed with passengers that people literally sit on top of the vehicle's hood and hanging off its sides, with more figures standing around it. The caption suggests that because streetcars are "too crowded for the 'mobile' Chaple," people resort to automobiles—which clearly creates an equally absurd overcrowding problem, just in a different form. Below are three humor pieces: "The Summer Girl" (a poem about a woman in fashionable dress), "No Difference" (a brief dialogue joke about dressmaker bills), and "The Dachshund" (a one-liner about the dog's peculiar proportions). These appear to be typical magazine filler content rather than political satire.
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TO AVOID DELAY. SINCE THE THOROUGHPARES ARE A BIT TOO CROWDED POR Tur “ MOMILE" CHAFPIE, WHY NOT RESORT TO THE OLD-FASHIONED SCYTHE BLADE h she means the virtuous unmarried. e are, of course, plenty of “less for tunate” women the world over; but in New England it seems the absence of masculine ality” and masculine ‘‘ muscle” has wrought peculiarly disastrous results, ‘The spinster, deprived of any “di , con- structive human expression,” has become a sickened extremist, ‘‘ unbalanced and astray.” Contemned for centuries, she has found no noble escape either in work or pra “Her religion was wholly mascu- line, and God was always ‘He.’ Why our inapility to give exact expression in words to the unknown should ha harder to bear in Vermont than in + or Bavaria, does not clearly appear. limitations of language have failed to chill the religious fervor of the world. A more depressing view of humanity was never put into print. What avails it te told that the vy England woman ab: from the trivial falsehoods which lend ity to conversation ; that her eyes are preternaturally bright, and that she ¢ “You bet! black-jack-diamond a time,” when asked if she has joyed herself? There are truthful women and bright-eyed and—let us cheerfully hope—women who er. e been wome} neve time said “ black-jack-diamond kind of a in all their decorous li But as the article asserts—the spinster of England is unhinged mentally and phy ally; if she walks crookedly and thinks crookedly ; if she is at once too modest to assert her femininity along normal and innocent lines, yet so advanced as to defend alism in a man who 4 vit is time she underwent a ysical reconstruction, If the e be a false one, there is room fi knight-errant in the arena. Agnes Repplier. No Difference. RS. PETERBY: My dressmaker’s bill was twice as large this year pllows M as last. Mrs, Poriin: I don’t see how your husband can afford it. “Hecan’t. But then he couldn't last year.”’ The Dachshund. BRIGHT American young: ster’s description of the Dachshund: ‘One of those dogs that isa dog and a half long, and only half a dog high.’ The Summer Girl. N° the Summer Girl, she packs her = ducks, (It's beautiful weather for them !) And puts on a skirt with a thousand tucks, Three hundred ruMes and cighty Some darts and gores and a hem, She loadeth her tranks on the hotel trucks All light with the ruffles and lace, And dreameth of fluttering, gay, young bucks, Of the golf and the surf, and she doesn’t care shucks For the tan on her beautiful face. th herself toa man or two, short or tall— ¢ doesn’t care whether they're old or new, Rich or poor—and neither would YOU, w ‘twould be off in the fall! . Rt. Bacon, comicbooks.com