Life, 1901-10-31 · page 5 of 20
Life — October 31, 1901 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 345 The main illustration depicts a chaotic scene titled "Wild Animals I Have Never Seen: Strenuous Life in the Early Days. Rounding Up a Great Four-Horned Ungulate in Wyoming." This appears to be satirical commentary on Theodore Roosevelt's famous "strenuous life" philosophy and his ranching experiences in Wyoming during the 1880s. The cartoon mocks the physical dangers and wild frontier conditions Roosevelt romanticized through exaggerated imagery of people being thrown by bucking animals and thrown about violently. The "Life's Personal Column" below contains gossip about various literary and journalistic figures, including references to Rudyard Kipling and Henry James. The right side features a silhouette photograph titled "A Compromising Shadow on a Bachelor's Window-Shade, Which, However—" with an incomplete joke relying on reader imagination about impropriety.
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WILD ANIMALS I HAVE NEVER SEEN. STRENUOUS LIPE IN THE EARLY DAYS, ROUNDING UP A GREAT POUR-HORNED UNITATHERE IN WYOMING. Life’s Personal Column. ISHOP POTTER has suddenly given up his connection with the New York Journal, and it is rumored that his next series of articles will be entitled, ‘‘ A Man Is Known by the Company He Keeps.” Rudyard Kipling, the former poet, will shortly appear in vaude- ville. Mr. Russell Sage has recently expressed some dissatisfaction with himself, and in order to learn more about money-making methods, it is said that he will pay an extended visit to Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy. Mr. W. R. Hearst, of the New York Journal, will shortly issue a letter of thanks to Mr. Paul Dana, of the Su, as Mr. Dana’s efforts in Mr. Hearst's behalf are, according to Mr. Hearst, the only thing that has saved him from general obloquy. Henry James is writing a series of sentences for Harpers.’ Each sentence is arranged in the form of a short story. A prize will be offered for the best solution. E. W. Bok, of The Ladies’ Home Journal, keeps the sermons of the Rev. Dr. Hepworth, of the //erald, in a continuous scrap-book. They inspire him, he says, to some of his most virile editorials. J. Pierpont Morgan is contemplating the removal of St. Peter's Cathedral at Rome and the Cathedral at Toledo to upper Fifth Avenue, for the use of some of his clerical friends. Lord Kitchener has arranged to end the Boer war once a week during the coming winter for the benefit of the London papers. A COMPROMISING SHADOW ON A BACHELOR'S WINDOW-SIIADE, WHICH, HOWEVER,—— comicbooks.com