Life, 1902-06-26 · page 8 of 31
Life — June 26, 1902 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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The main illustration shows two figures in tattered clothes standing over what appears to be fallen or defeated forms. The caption reads "ORPHANS VANQUISHED," suggesting these are caricatures of wealthy industrialists or politicians triumphing over orphans or the poor. The surrounding text discusses real social issues: disease in American cities, the establishment of millionaire charitable homes, and General Smith's military orders. One section criticizes that "our millionaires should take so little thought of themselves" while orphans suffer. The cartoon appears to satirize the hypocrisy of the wealthy—they boast of charity while actual poor children remain abandoned. The artist (H. PAUS, visible in signature) uses dark humor to critique how the rich "vanquish" rather than genuinely help society's most vulnerable members.
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onrunus VANQuisieD. A“ Revised’? Nursery Rhyme. D ING, dong, dell, Baby's out of H-ll. ‘Who put him in? John Cal-vin, What took him out? The D. D.’s doubt, Real Rumors. PrOURTH OF JULY will be celebrated in the Philippines this yearas usual. Toy pistols will be dis- tributed early in the morning to ull such as are religiously and de- voutly disposed. Copies of Chauncey Depew’s ~ speeches will bo read aloud at noon. The water cure will be ad- ministered at three in the afternoon, and in the evening there will be a grand pyrotechnic display of set pieces, including General Funston and some of the most popular saloon-keep- ers now engaged in missionary work in the islands, A board of patent lawyers has been started in Boston, and hereafter every new religion begun in the Hub will be patented and the rights of its origina- tor duly protected under the law. The new business promised already to the board, it is said, will greatly overtax its resources. There is some talk about establish- ing a new degree at Harvard in con- nection with the laboratory. It will be conferred on the students who suc- ceed during their course in vivisecting the greatest number of dumb animals “in the interests of science,” and will be called ‘t The Cat and Dog Degree.’’ Deer hunting in the Adirondacks will be conducted this year on a larger scalo than usual. It is not improb- able, if this keeps up, that the race of guides will hecome extinct. There are a few deer left. 4 A home for multimillionaires who have given all their wealth away and Generals Funston and Miles as Roman gladiators, Funston with his foot on Miles. Direct wires, with phonographic attachment, will soon be in place, leading from the White House nursery to all the newspaper offices. ? uf ys. he’s just a com- mon, ordinary loafer.’’ “Tramp or society man?’ T*® cities are diseases, New York is yellow fever, Philadelphia is old age, Brooklyn hay fever and Boston acute mania. —= “THE respected contemporary hewspaper which found it “Indeed distressing to find Bishop Potter, D.D., LL. D., D.C, L., using such an adjective as ‘brainy '" seems to belleve the newspaper report that the Bishop spoke of the late Archbishop Corrigan as of the braini- est men in the Catholle Church.” It ts incredl- ble. The Bishop must have been misreported. The Service. “ “THE expedition. you are appointed to com- mand fs to be directed against the hostile tribes, with thelr associates and adherents, The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of thelr settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age aud sex as possible, You will not, hy any means, listen to overtures of peace before the total ruin of their settlements Is effected."—Orders of Generat Washington. : “Kill, burn and make Samar a howllog wil- derness.""— Orders of General Sintth. . Of ¢ourse..General Smith's orders ;direct.the doing of a monstrous thing. forgotten themselves will soon be" Bat that. is not so much because Gen- erected on the outskirts of New York. This class of charity patients is con- stantly growing, and the new building will no doubt be soon overcrowded. It is a crying shame that our millionaires should take so little thought of them- selves, but this being so we must do the best we can. Both John D, Rocke- feller and Andrew Carnegie are said to be almost destitute. It has been estimated that in one hundred years more, at the present rate of increase, every man, woman and child in the United States will be drawing a pension. The new decorations in the White House are progressing. The main hall has a fresco of grizzly bears in bas- relief, and in the centre is a statue of j-oftal Smith is monstrous as it is be- cause war is monstrous, Some of us have been pretty quick to adjudge the Smiths and the Wallers a disgrace to the service. Do we suf- ficiently bethink ourselves what it is to serve in war? Cruelties and treacheries are pro- cisely what make war effective. Does it become those who justify war to complain of the cruelty and treachery of soldiers? Hope Springs Eternal. SAW the Chief of the Weather Bureau come out of a clairvoy- ant’s office.” ** What was he doing there?’ “ Trying to change his luck.” comicbooks.com