Life, 1902-04-17 · page 15 of 22
Life — April 17, 1902 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A "Flower Trust" satire. A toad (representing a monopoly controller) demands a frog turn off a butterfly's "honey meter" because the insect won't pay its bill. This mocks real-world monopolies and corporate trusts—then a major political concern—by depicting them in nature, suggesting these business practices are predatory and absurd. **Middle Section:** Life announces a college humor contest offering $25 monthly prizes to undergraduates from elite schools (Cornell, Yale, Harvard, etc.). Submissions must be original, under 150 words, and humorous. **Bottom Cartoons:** Two brief sketches. The first shows European monarchs agreeing that their military spending has exhausted their kingdoms' resources, satirizing arms races and militarism. The second depicts a mother and son at Grand Central Station—likely a sentimental domestic scene, possibly with dark humor about train travel risks implied by "either be" (text cuts off).
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Frog; SAY, MASTER TOAD, THIS BUTTERPLY WON'T PAY HIS HONEY BILL. President of the Flower Trust; aeavene! TURN OFF W18 “HONEY METER" AT ONCE. Life’s College Contest. ACH calendar month, be- ginning with May, 1902, until further notice, Lirg will award a prize of Twenty-five Dollars to the college under- graduate who, during that month, shall send the best original humorous contribu- tion. Contributions must not be over one hundred and fifty words in length, and may be either verse, joke or episode. Envelopes should be marked ‘College Contest.” If in any month no contribution is received which is up to Live's standard, the prize for that month will not be awarded. The decision of the editors of Lire shall be final. Contributions may be sent at any time and should bear the name, address, college and class of the sender. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by addressed stamped envelope. Lire will pay at its regular rates for contributions, not prize-winners, which it accepts. To limit the labor involved in the examination of manu- scripts, the contests will be confined to undergraduate students of the following colleges : Cornell, University of California, Columbia, Stanford Uni- versity, University of Chicago, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Brown, Wesleyan, Will- jams, University of Michigan, Amherst, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Trinity, Hobart, Union, Yale, Harvard, University of Wisconsin. eee Agreed. IRST EUROPEAN MONARCH: My military es- tablishment never was on such a solid basis. AT“THE GRAND CENTAAL “STATION: Sreconp E. M.: Nor mine. The resources of my She: JIM AND I NOPE YOU'LL HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY, MOTHER. entire kingdom have been taxed to the utmost. Jim : YES. JUST THINK, IN SEVEN MINUTES PROM NOW YOU'LL EITHER ne Then let us have peace. nEToND nEcoostt10%. comicbooks.com