Life, 1902-01-16 · page 9 of 20
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# Life Magazine, Page 49: Analysis **The Main Cartoon** (top) depicts a conversation between a father and son on horseback about lying. The father claims he never told a lie as a boy; the son replies he's "afraid you didn't"—implying the father is now lying about his past honesty. This is gentle satire on parental hypocrisy and selective memory. **"His Long Suit"** (center illustration) shows a well-dressed gentleman in formal attire. The caption suggests he's known for something specific, though the exact reference is unclear from visible context. **"As to Football"** (right column) criticizes college students' increasing gambling on football games, warning that widespread betting threatens the sport's integrity. This reflects early 20th-century concerns about commercialization and moral decay in college athletics.
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“PAPA, WHEN YOU WERE A BOY, DID YOU RVER TELL A Lint” “1AM APRAID I DID, MY BoY. Way??? “ NOTHING, ONLY [WAS APRAID You DIDN'T.” when you come to a thing like this, A roof-garden, now— IvLia (with horror): Herbert! Yutof course, I sup- pose you are tired! Maybe we oughtn’t to have brought you. But I'm sure if you'd studied it— Faxsy: Sh! (Both ladies become absorbed in an endeavor to follow the cnsuing motif, and Herbert continues to enjoy it in his own way until the end of the opera, taking another breath of fresh air be- tween Acts II and III.) IvLta (as the curtain falls): Well, I never enjoyed anything so much in all my life! Wasn't it perfectly beautiful, Fanny? Her- bert, now wasn’t it, after all? Herpert (intensely): Sublime—positively sublime! After you'd explained it to me, you know. That last act was simply perfect! Fanxy (in Julia’s ear): 1 think he was asleep most of the time, dear! Jutta: Well, we tried, anyway! Next time we'll take him in hand the day before. Tow those themes do haunt one! The way they worked up to the climax——! Hrrpert (chiming in): Just walked all over each other at the end, didn’t they? I could appreciate that myself! Faxxy: I don't see how people can say they don’t like Wagner,—that is, if they've studied, Herbert, have you the opera-glasses? —and the Lavignac? It all depends on being perfectly familiar (Exeunt, still talking.) ith — Margaret Johnson, As to Football. HE newspapers tell us more and more each year of students betting on football games. At a notable game out West, last fall, when the talent, so to speak, was "118 Lose art.” dumped, and the favorites lost,a large number of college boys went broke like a lot of touts ata horse-race. One need not be a Puritan in order to believe that betting is bad for boys. Itisaspeciesof gambling, and gambling is a ruinous vice. Happily, betting is athing which well-brought-up boys come little in contact with. Clean boys are not attracted to noisome pool-rooms. But what if colleges, where boys are collecting in increasing numbers, shall afford the occa- sion for betting and the encourage- ment to bet? Seriously, can a col- lege afford to stand for football, if football is to come to such uses? Lire, the Joyous and ever welcome, ts one of the comparatively few things in our distinct. ively American products for which one can be devoutly and persistently thankful, With the magic wand of Its fnnocuous wit It toucbes many a sham, for it ts the sworn enemy of snobs and hypocrites. May Jive live # thou- sand years and keep Its youth as untmpatred as It is with number 999 !—Jioston Beacon, THEOLOGY is deemed broad “in proportion as it attributes width to the needle’s eye. comicbooks.com