Life, 1903-07-16 · page 12 of 20
Life — July 16, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 64 The top illustration depicts a scholar or academic figure surrounded by books, with an angelic cherub, satirizing intellectual pursuits. The caption quotes Shakespeare's *Taming of the Shrew*, suggesting that "books are woman's looks"—a commentary on women's education or intellectual ambitions. The "Much in Little" section contains a Latin phrase joke between characters Ella Forte and Bertie about bathing attire, likely sexual innuendo common to the era's humor. Below is a cartoon about "Bjones," a horseman compromising with automobiles—likely satirizing the tension between old transportation methods (horses) and new technology (cars) during the early automotive age. The "Moments of History" section mocks Paul Revere's famous midnight ride, recontextualizing it as a modern rush to repair an automobile in fifteen hours—a joke about the relative urgency and absurdity of modern vs. historical concerns.
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2ST Tg ines HIS ONLY BOOKS ARE WOMAN'S LOOKS, “Ou THI LEARNING, WHAT A THING IT Is!” Forward. BX ihe time we have dnished our transit tunnels, they will be out of date —Mr. John Brisben Walker. Ours is a forward civil If we build a battleship, it is obsolete about as soon as the last rivet is welded. And as for gentlemen, who require three generations in the making, they are hopelessly old school before they are fairly under way. Much in Little. ELA FORTE: What is muttum in parco? Bertie: You in your bathing suit, sis. RIONES, WHO 18 POND OF M13 HONsES, AND HAS MAD MUCH TROUBLE WITH Is AUTOMOBILES, DECIDES TO COMPROMISE TUB MATTER. Taming of the Shrire.—Shakespeare. A MOVEMENT ON POOT TO ABOLISH PARLOR MaTCHES, Moments of History. AUL REVERE glanced critically at the meeting- house clock. It was just two. “There is no time to lose,” he muttered, sammoning a blacksmith, a civil engineer and an expert accountant to his side. “Unless I can make repairs on this automobile in fifteen hours, I won't have a chance to run over a British soldier between here and Concord." comicbooks.com