Life, 1903-01-29 · page 6 of 20
Life — January 29, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 88 The main content is a political dialogue (likely from a play or sketch) between a President and his Attendant discussing competing demands—sixteen deputations waiting to see him, and a call from Mrs. Roosevelt about the Sabbath Day and supporting Works projects. The President dismisses the visitors, sarcastically telling them to say he's resigned or left town. The two statue illustrations labeled "HOWDY" and "AVE B" appear to be Life's suggestions for artistic street signs to guide visitors—depicting figures in working-class or frontier dress, likely satirizing public art or urban planning debates of the era. Below is a sketch titled "A One-Sided Affair" showing a couple on a couch, and text reviewing books including one on spiritualism and a French novel about political intrigue.
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88 home on the Sabbath Day and reading Improving Works to your family, it cannot con- scientiously support you dur ing the next Presidential cam- paign. PRESIDENT (Curning Oh, that alters the case com- pletely. (70 Domestic.) Tell Mrs. Roosevelt that it will be impossible to make the call on Sunday. (Frit Domestic. ) Dear, dear! This is terrible. Talk about your narrow es- capes! (Loud murmurs with- out.) What is that noise? ATTENDANT (entering): There are sixteen deputations, your Excellency, waiting to sec you. Prestpext: Sixteen depu tations! What in heaven's name are they? ATTENDANT: All women— ladies, I mean, your Excel. lency. The P. T. A. M. J., the 0. B. Q. L. R., the D. L. Z.3.Q.W. K. A. A. O. T. R.. DENT: Here, that will Tell them they needn't wait. Tellthem to go to— no, say Iam going out of town. Say Lam going to resign ! Tell them Hanna can have my job. Say—here, bring me something to dip my head in! (Wares his arms frantically, as scene closes in.) David If, Dodge. pale): do. “Oh, well, never mind, -LIFE- LIFE'S SUGGESTIONS FOR ARTISTIC STREET SIGNS, POR THE GUIDANCE OF VISITING STRANGERS. . "THEY say Jobn isn’t doing well in medicine. Iam afraid he never will learn enough to be an all around practitioner." He can be- come a specialist.”’ A ON/-SIDED APPAR. ‘an Telepathy Explain? is a little volume by Minot J. Savage upon Spiritism (a new term to replace the word Spiritualism, now somewhat shopworn). It is succinct, straightforward and hence interesting. If the cited obser- vations contain no error, the deductions are inevitable and the results momentous, But, in Mr. Savage's own words in regard to himself, those of us who have had no such experiences, while ‘‘we doubt neither his intelligence nor his honesty, do not believe a single word that he tells us.”” (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Some very good fun is to be found in the pages of J. Storer Clouston’s Adventures of M.d'Haricot,—a French- man who, having dallied with political intrigue, thinks himself pursued by the Government, and determines to conceal himself in London disguised as an American He tells his own story, a caricature at once full of fun and comicbooks.com