Life, 1902-06-05 · page 6 of 22
Life — June 5, 1902 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# "Business" Cartoon Analysis This cartoon depicts a dog and lamb in conversation by water. The caption reads: "The Wolf: 'What do you mean by muddying the water?' / The Lamb: 'Can I sell you one of my patent Eureka filters?'" This is a classic Aesop's fable reference—the story of the wolf and lamb at a stream, where the wolf falsely accuses the lamb of muddying water as a pretext to attack it. Life's satirical twist: the lamb, rather than being helpless prey, has become a salesman hawking "patent Eureka filters." The joke critiques American commercial culture—even in situations of obvious predatory intent, the enterprising American tries to sell something. It satirizes both aggressive capitalism and naive optimism about commercial solutions to genuine threats.
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484 Our Fresh-Air Fund. NOTHER summer is at hand, and Lire is to have his hands full of children—so to speak—and he calls upon his friends to help him. Your dollars, Reader, are what we want. The more dollars the more children, ‘The Farm opens June 15. Following isastatement of the Fund to date: Balanc Sept. 27 Nov. 28. F Dee. 21, mide, Miss Crostiin: Ellis Rows Mi Jan, 23° Wm. Schmarz. Feb. 13. Miss Crosman, April 19. Miss Crosman 19. May Jamieson. 19. Mr. Trumball Car 21, Thos, Smidt....... Berkshire Athletic Ciut Miss Croaman.. E. Caldwell seseccen Two classes Of school boys... Pettle Back, Huskie, The pigit and cinders... May 00 400 $3,807.16 Kindness. INDNESS sometimes wins dogs and horses, but its efficacy to win men is more than doubtful. For example, the kindness which we have used to win the Fili- pinos ‘‘has,’’ writes General Bell, ‘‘ been interpreted by many * as an evidence of weakness and fear, and, puffed up by a child- ish and ignorant conceit over what they are pleased to call successful resistance to our power, the people have become so arrogant that they look down upon our Government and scorn its kindliest efforts at pacification.” Candidly, what shall be thought of a people who will permit childish and ignorant conceits to lead them into mistaking the invasion of their coun- try by a nation undeniably Anglo- Saxon, for anything but a kindly effort at pacification ? We have thrown our kindness away ; the water used in water-curing those people is no better than wasted. proud Not What He Meant. XM Now, Mr. Tuatter, I RS. DIMPLETON (the mother) ¢ shan't expect you to say anything about the baby, I know it isn’t always easy for a bachelor to express himself. Tutrer: You are more than kind. I was just wondering what I could possibly say. T* Son of a Fiddler, by Jennette Lee, is an extremely pretty etory. The hero is a magician, reared among New England farm folks like a dackling in a setting of chicks, and with much the same reeult. The ending is a little too good to be tne, bat it is all a charming bit of idealism. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. $1.50.) None but the Brace—, by Hamblen Sears, js a stereotyped romance of the American Revolution, dealing with the treachery of Benedict Arnold and his attempted capture by the patriots, George Washington, Major André, a beautiful Tory and the hero with the usual desire to put his ex- ploits on paper figure in its pages, (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Halt, Charles Major's new book, is a romance of the days of Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, Dorothy is & feminine whirlwind, very attractive to her au- \ce if somewhat disconcerting to her victims, and the story, even in these days when romance has become adrug, makes good reading. (The Macmillan Company. $1.9.) The Magic Wheel, by Jobn Strange Winter, tells an unbelievable story of the rolving of a mye- tery by recourse to the Various epiritualiste, card readers ight experts of London, aided by the heroine's lucky acquaintance with a Duke. It is apparently intended to be taken as a study of the occult, bat it reads very like a pot-boiler, (J. B, Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, $1.25.) Mark Twain takes a shy at Dr. Conan Doyle in A Double-Barrelted Detective Story. It is an amusing little #kit, in which the great Sherlock Holmes at last meets his match in a Western mip- log village, It might have been called The Hound of the Stilimans. $1.0.) The chief merit of Daniel Eeerton, a Romance of the Philippines, vy Isracl Putnam, is that it gives a very just and very clear idea of life in the Eastern tropics, Otherwise the book fs rather ordinary, bat makes good light reading. (Funk and Wagnalls Company. §1.20) Notes for Hunting-Men, by Captain Cortland Gordon Mackenzie, ts a little volume of practical advice upou the care and management of horses. Althoagh written for English sportsmen it will, doubtless, be useful to the local parsuers of the anisced bag. (Longmabs, Green and Company.) J. B. Kerfoot, (Harper and Brothers, 1% next week’s Lire, in place of the usual notices of the latest books will appear ‘‘ Lire’s Guide toSummer Reading,”’ being a_list of the most readable books published during the last year. The Why of It. W AR is a nasty business. The Philippine war is a nasty case of this nasty business. The capture of Aguinaldo is a nasty incident of this nasty case of a nasty business. That is why Funston comes home without setting any rivers on fire, and without being once spoken of as o Presidential candidate. y* every man there are two men —the man of this age, and the man of the Stone Age. BUSINESS. The Wolf, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MUDDYING THE WATER? CAN SELL YOU ONE OP MY PATENT EUREKA FILTERS? comicbooks.com