Life — December 26, 1901 — page 29: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, with one satirical cartoon. The main comic is a three-panel sequence labeled "FAITH," "HOPE," and "CHARITY"—referencing the Christian virtues. Each panel depicts a man in increasingly exaggerated physical distress: first straining at a shelf, then doubled over in pain, finally collapsed in a chair while a woman tends to him. The humor is dark slapstick about male suffering, likely commenting on domestic life or marital hardship. The advertisements include Crown perfumes, a Grand Canyon travel promotion, Whitman's chocolates, Duminy champagne, and Old Overholt whiskey. These represent typical early-20th-century luxury goods marketed to affluent readers. The cartoon's satirical point appears to be a cynical take on the "three virtues"—suggesting that in modern life, faith, hope, and charity manifest as physical pain and domestic burden rather than spiritual uplift. The juxtaposition with advertisements for indulgences adds ironic commentary on materialism versus moral ideals.