Life, 1903-10-08 · page 13 of 20
Life — October 8, 1903 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces typical of early 1900s American humor: **Main Cartoon ("From One Point of View"):** An automobile enthusiast compares choosing a wife to selecting a car, progressing from a modest, low-powered vehicle to increasingly ambitious models with better performance and features. The satire mocks both automotive obsession and the era's tendency to reduce matrimonial choice to consumer pragmatism—treating wives as interchangeable commodities like automobiles. **"More Cannibalism":** A brief joke referencing literary figures (Edward Everett Hale, Henrietta Crosman, Harriet Beecher Stowe), likely punning on their names or public personas in a way now obscure. **"The Limit":** A simple joke about a stingy man who avoids telling his barber he's deaf until shaving is complete—presumably to avoid paying or tipping. The page also includes a Harwell College advertisement (right margin) listing entrance examination subjects. The humor relies on period-specific references and attitudes toward gender, consumerism, and social class that require historical context to fully appreciate.
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‘LIFE: back on him at every turn in the road. One, in fact, that speaks only when it is spoken to. This kind satisfies him for awhile, but by and by he gets restless. “«Give me a road partner,’ he says, ‘that can show a clean pair of heels to all the others—one that will make me, break me and take me any- where, with no chance of explosions, and a million revolutions to the minute.’ “«* Then I shall be satisfied—until something better comes along.’ " 349 7 YHE City of New York saves from one thousand five hundred to two thou- sand dollars a year by the sale of its worn- out fire horses. And yet there are people who say we have an extravagant municipal government. More Cannibalism. TP Edward Everett Hale, I really do not know ; But Henrietta ( And Harriet The Limit. “ PEPE'Samighty mean man.” “In what way? “ Why, be’s stone-deaf, and he never tells the barber until he is throngh shaving him.” her Stowe! INTRAMCE Serre Foor Dau. Base Bau Boxer Batt. Tracy. (caste, Rowine. PIDLY ENOUEN.” From One Point of View. TPHE old automobilist smiled and is satisfied with a modest, low- running article of moderate power, wisely as he was asked his opinion on the subject of matrimony. “ The kind of a wife that a man f= selects,” he ob- af) served, “depends ZED stogether upon himself. In the beginning he is young and inexperienced one that will carry him along on short trips and isn’t of much help in climbing hills. Then he gets more ambitious. He wants one that goes a faster pace. One that he can manage himself and yet not be ashamed of anywhere. One withan automatic brake and noiseless, that his friends will admire and envy and wish they had, and that will not go A Berens PLUNKED. comicbooks.com