Life, 1902-05-15 · page 8 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 424 **Top Cartoons: "Some People Believe in Trusts — And Some Do Not"** The left figure is a wealthy, well-fed businessman with a top hat, labeled as representing those who support trusts (monopolistic business combinations). The right shows a poor woman and child looking at a price board for ice and beef, representing working-class citizens suffering from high prices caused by trusts. **The Satire:** This critiques economic inequality and the trust system's impact on ordinary people. While wealthy industrialists benefit from monopolies, everyday families struggle with inflated food costs. The juxtaposition directly blames trusts for consumer hardship. **Bottom Content:** Includes unrelated cartoons and a South African landscape photograph (noted as unexhibited at the Royal Academy), typical of Life's eclectic satirical format.
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FT Ascnatyy SOME PROPLE BELIEVE IN TRUSTS— Art. Y the death of her father and her marriage to the man of her heart's choice, Marga- ret was early thrown on her own resources. At first she chose the ca- reer of a Circassian Prin- cess in the museums, selling her portrait and the story of her life for 10 cents. But this palled on her. “Tt is not art!” she exclaimed, her soul rising in revolt, ‘For see! My daily in- come is scarcely $5!" So she resigned and wrote a novel, which A CAT WITH NINE LIPES. sold 500,000 copies, netting ber $18.37 in royalties, or about $10 a day, for the time actually spent. Moreover, she was able now to sell her portraits for $1 each, while the merest bits of personal. anecdotes about her were snapped up by the literary magazines at 5 cents the word. “This is art! cried Margaret, radiantly happy. T° ping or not to pong, that isthe question : Whether it is more tranquil in the mind to suffer the slings and A Soliloquy. AND SOME DO NOT. slightings of not being in it, Or to take arms against a slew of volleys And by serving, smash things. To ping, to pong—and by ping-pong to say we end the thonsand other fadlets that we are heir to, ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. And yet, when we have shufiled off this ping-pong coil What other craze may come—aye, there’s the rub! T. M. A SOUTH AFRICAN LANDSCAPE, NOT EXHIBITED AT THE R. A. comicbooks:com