Life, 1903-12-11 · page 7 of 20
Life — December 11, 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"The Dominican Situation"** (top left): A visual pun showing a horse cart loaded with barrels that spills its cargo. The joke plays on Dominican politics—likely referencing a political controversy, with "Wes Y?" suggesting someone named Wes involved in a scandal that caused public disruption. 2. **"Complete Manners"** (top right): A dialogue mocking social pretension. An English visitor observes that following custom correlates with poor manners—a jab at rigid social conventions. 3. **"A Stand-off"** (bottom): Two figures in a domestic dispute about employment. A woman dismisses a cook, who retorts that the cook "said the same thing of you"—a class-conflict joke about mutual dissatisfaction between employer and servant. The page satirizes politics, social conventions, and labor relations.
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*LIFE* A KEG STORY, THEY MEET WITH AN ACCEDENT, BLEAK LoosE AND— The Domingan Situation. Complete. Manners. Wesx an WHE: So you don’t like this M* English friend had spent the Marched up a hill, color? But everybody is wear- fternoon studying bargain sales. And then marched down, because he ing it. ell,’ said I, “do you get any new Was up, for fair, He: ‘D: Who is everybody ? ig customs and manners?” inst it, there, Se all the shop girls and society “ Yes,” said he. ‘I observe that the . But Wos Y? eens. more custom the less manners.” A STAND-OFF, “THAT COOK 1 ENGAGED FROM YOU Was NO GooD.” “WELL, MADAM, SIE SAID THE SAME THING OF You." comicbooks.com