Life, 1903-02-19 · page 7 of 24
Life — February 19, 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains humorous illustrations about childhood and social commentary: **"The Baby's Omar"** is a poem by Carolyn Wells parodying the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, using childish imagery (toys, nurses, porridge) instead of philosophical themes. The accompanying cartoon shows a woman holding a messy child—the joke being the child's appearance contradicts the caption "The hat itself is very pretty, but does it go well with my horns?" **The right-side cartoons** depict children playing roughly with adults, captioned "Father, I cannot tell a lie" and "What's that" and "You young rascal!"—suggesting innocent mischief. **"Greed"** is a serious editorial comment by Senator Aldrich protesting industrial greed's harm to agricultural interests, warning that a Christian nation cannot allow class suffering due to greed. The page mixes lighthearted child humor with political critique about economic inequality.
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Ee manbe Quange> & “TE MAT ITSELP 18 VERY PRETTY, BUT DOES IT GO WELL wiTH XY nonns?" The Baby’s Omar. MARS the fad! Well then, let us indite The shape of verse old Omar used to write; And Juveniles are up. So we opine A Baby's Omar would be out of sight! Methinks the stunt is easy, Stilted style, A misplaced Capital once ina while— Josephine Daskam does it like a shot ; And can't I do it too? Well, I should Smile! But how I ramble on. I must dismiss Dull Sloth, and set to Work at once, I wis ; I sometimes think there's nothing quite so hard Asa Beginning, Say we start like this: Indeed, indeed my apron oft before L tore, but was I naughty when I tore? And then, and then came Ma, and thread in hand Repaired the rent in my small pinafore. A Penny Trumpet underneath the Bough, big enough to make a Row; Engine, and a squeaking Doll, Pandemonium enow. Come, fill the Cup, then quickly on the floor Your portion of the Porridge gaily pour. The Nurse will Spank you,and she'll be discharged, — Ah, but of Nurses there be Plenty more. Yes, Tean doit! Now, if but my Purse Some kindly Editor will reimburse, I'll write a Baby's Omar ; for I’m sure ‘These Sample Stanzas here are not so worse. Carolyn Wells. Greed. ~ENATOR ALDRICH'S protest against ‘the sacrifice of the manufacturing and industrial interests of the country to the greed of the agricultural interests of the West” is timely. Congress should keep it ever in mind that whereas the people of the East have mostly had the sentiments of sordid avarice refined out of them, the people of the West are new, yet, and pretty hoggish. We cannot, as a Christian nation, afford to let any class suffer through being deficient in greed. “PATURR, I CANNOT TELL A LIE. 4 DONE 1T— comicbooks.com