Life, 1903-01-29 · page 7 of 20
Life — January 29, 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains book reviews and three separate poems/cartoons rather than a unified political cartoon. The main visual elements include illustrations accompanying three literary pieces: "Love on Skates" (a poem about romantic jealousy while ice skating), "Congress" (a satirical editorial criticizing Congress's inefficiency regarding appropriation bills and graft), and "Too Much" (a humorous domestic dialogue). The "Congress" section critiques the legislative body for failing to address corruption ("graft") and wasting time on clerical work rather than substantive legislation. The author argues Congress should establish a permanent commission for graft oversight. The other items are light social satire—romantic mishaps and domestic comedy—rather than political commentary. The page primarily serves as a miscellaneous collection of short literary and humorous content typical of Life's satirical format.
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peste Pah See TORNB ABE AMON i P| a 3] q free from malice. (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) Mr. Charles Frederic Goss, in The Loom of Life, scems to have dreamed of blending It it were. Sophocles e His st : reek | and classi training who adopts the ro a Fury to ruin the } i pedantic and wholly unconvinei Lowen-Merrill Company $1.50.) Enn Jou, Her Book and Heart, by George Madden Martin, is a dear s dear little girl. Itis havinga w and it deserves it, (MeClure, P Company.) Americans in Process, compiled by Robert A. Wood, is a book which, as it deals with the slum conditions in the North and West Ends of Boston, might appear to be of merely local interest. It will, however, be found, on account of its breadth of grasp and excellent presentation of its subject, worth the notice of civic and political workers throughout the country, Its utle ilips and ‘LIFE : ig a just and happy one. (Houghton, Mil- flinand Company. $1.50.) The Lightning Conductor, by C. > A. M. Williamson, is a comedy-romance founded upon the whim of an Americ heiress vel fre 1 Lone car. Some rather lescriptions of the by the way call for hill-climbing powers in the reader, but the chapters devoted to the action of the story are bright and amusing. (Henry Holt and Company.) Furniture of the Olden Time, hy Frances Clary Morse, is a /- compilation which will be a de- 29 light to all lovers of binet-work. S dired pieces are nd esting chapter up brated cabinet im: volune is b The Macwi $3.00.) y printed. n Company. Love and Louisa, by Effie Adelaide Rowlands (Mme. Al- banisi), recalls the fiction of the 80s when The Duchess and Bertha Clay sat upon the pedestals now occupied by the historical romancers. Itis good , although the kind became known by f trash. (J.B. Lippin- y, Philadelpt ») J.B, Kerfoot, the generic cott Compan Congress OF course it is not pleasant to be told that Congress will be able to do very little, during the present ses- sion, beyond passing the appropriation bills. The prospect of a long, hot summer, Without general legislation of any sort in the meantime, is very sobering. What we nent commis graft. The principles of graft being now pretty well settled by the practice of upwards of a century, why should Congress be burdened with the work of framing appropriation bills? Why should the body which has exclusively the initiative in legislation be filling its time with the performance of duties hardly more than clerical? sem to need is a perma- ‘ion to attend to matters of ‘. and to the Riviera 89 n Love on Skates. pond a mirror icy For the arching skies above, Now Love goes on s\ ates and, vice Versa, skates now go on Lov At her feet, Is young pid. How How insinuating he! Jea Tn one’s heart to see him put First a hand upon an ankle, ten, another on her foot : He will take bis tir Holding fast to hee Who can blame the boy? doubt it Is delight that makes him slow, pusies are sure to rankle So, securely let him shoe her With the blades of shining steel: On the ice one waits to woo her, If his heart does not congeal Ere the god of Lov ates upon her tiny feet, Then another chap and chapter Cupid's story will complete. as strapt her Feliz Carmen, Too Much. ¥ daughter says you kissed her, sir, without notice.’ “ Well, sir, did she want me to serve a subpoena on her?”” comicbooks.com