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# "Two Chairs" Political Cartoon Analysis This 1894 *Life* magazine cartoon satirizes wealth inequality and economic disparity. The large central figure—a wealthy, well-fed man relaxing luxuriously in an armchair—represents the privileged class enjoying "dividends" and "economy is wealth." Meanwhile, the smaller figure visible on the right sits uncomfortably upright in a rigid chair labeled "THE DESTROYER OF ONLY ONE LIFE," suggesting the working poor endure harsh conditions while the wealthy live in comfort. The signs reading "GOD BLESS OUR DIVIDENDS" and "OUR TUNNEL DEATH TRAP" juxtapose the rich man's blessings against industrial workers' dangerous labor and death. The satire critiques how capitalists prosper from workers' suffering and exploitation, a common Progressive Era theme addressing labor abuses and class conflict in industrial America.
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NCMBER 65. Sir Richard Stecle, a well-known Irishman, was asked by an Engitsh frlend how itwas that Irishmen were 80 remarkable for making bulls, “1 believe,” sald he, * it 18 some- thing in the alr of the country; and, y I dare say, if an Englishman was LZi|\» } born bere, he would do the same, From Seventy Years of Trish 1 e exurn ' Macmillan aud Company, 1894. 1S WEAL By | pee Newnan 66. Dr. Twimage found a drunken man sitting on the steps of his Tabernacle, Dr. Talmage takes every one in at that Tabernacle ; 80 he tried to take thts man, But the man refused. “1 was thinking 1 would joln your church,” he sald, * but the longer I think about it, the sicker 1 feel."—From Modern Kioguence. Volume X. By Willam Walter Phelps, Jobin T, Mores and Company, Philadelpia. Copy- right, 1900, 1 NomBgER 57, Mr. Blaine used to tell this story : Once in Dublin, toward the end of the opera, Satan was conducting Faust 7, wrough » trap-door which represented the \ ///, gatesot Hades. Its Majesty got through all //) Might—be was used to gong below—bat //, Faust,who was quite stout, got only about half-way in, and no squeezing would get him any farther. Suddenty an Irish- man in the gallery exclaimed, devoutly, “Thank God, hell ts full."—From Prople I’ve Smiled With. Marshall P. Wilder, Caswell and Company, 1889. Newpre 58, Str Boyle Roach had a servant, who was as great an original as his master, Two days after the death of the baronet, this man walted upon # gentleman, who had been a most intimate friend of Sir Boyle, for the purpose of telling / him that the time at which the funeral was to have taken place had been changed. Sir," says he, * my master sends his compliments to you, and he won't be buried till to-morrow evening." —From The Perey Anecdotes. By Sholto and Reuben Percy. TWO! CHAIRS: Volume X. London : Printed for T. Boys, Ludgate Hill, 1823, hut. The wild shepherd and bis wife drew near the child in awe and silence. The nurse began undressing it by the warm cottage fire. Silken frock and head-dress did the baby wear. One rich baby dress came off, to reveal another more beautiful. Still the shepherd and his wife looked on with awe. At last the process of undressing was completed, and the now naked baby was being warmed by the fire. Then was It, when all these wrappings and outer husks were peeled off, that the shepherd and his wite, relleved of their superstition, broke siience, exclaiming, “ Why, It's just like one of ours t"—From Characteristics. By A. P. Russell. Houghton and Mimin, 1883. Nempen 54. Samuel Rogers, the poet, told of an Englishman and a Frenchman who had to ight adoel, That they might have a better chance of missing one another, they were to fight ia a dark room. The Englishman fred up the chimney and brought down the Frenchman! ‘ When [ tell this story in Paris," added Rogers, “1 put the Englishman up the chimney."— Mr. Shad; 1 UNDERSTAND MISS PERCH MAS LEFT TOWN. From In a Club Corner. By A. P, Russell. Houghton, MiMia and — Miss Pike: ou, yes! SME COULDN'T STAND THE CLIMATE. YOU SRE FUE Company, 1800. 18 A PRESH-WATER Fist. comicbooks.com