Life, 1904-03-17 · page 11 of 24
Life — March 17, 1904 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("A Careful Daughter"):** Shows a young woman reading to an older woman (likely her mother), with the caption indicating the mother disapproves of the book's content. The joke satirizes Victorian-era parental anxiety about young women's literature—the mother finds even the reading material "not fit" for her daughter to see, reflecting period concerns about protecting young women from "improper" influences. **"Our Weather" Section:** A humorous complaint about New York winters, contrasting nostalgic memories of harsher winters from the writer's youth with current milder conditions. The illustration shows a freezing figure, emphasizing the exaggerated recollections of extreme cold that older generations claim to remember. **"Art" Section:** Brief dialogue mocking art connoisseurs who use pretentious language ("extraordinary mind") when discussing artists.
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pt 1904 by LUfe Mettisding Ca A CAREFUL DAUGHTER. NO. MOTHER, TINS MOOK IS NOT AT ant PIT rER You To SER.” “AM, BUT WH WERE BROVENT UP so DIFFERENTLY.” Our Weather. [7 i proper to speak of the weather. Ht old-fashioned” winter. The allowance of old-fashioned winters is has been an * about four toa century. When a winter comes along that free ything solid ard keeps it so, with brief re three months, it ma pression f observers. They remember for thirteen weeks, how deep the snow was, how the back railroads for days at a time, how fierce gales were, and how the mercury was continually running down to : zero point. That sort of takes fast hold of the memor has individuality and is remembered pses, for yon winters are fi Twenty years later comes hard winter says the observer, ‘this is a real, Jd-fashioned winter, the kind we used. to have wl boy!" Bee: cold ones, he he was young. when e “ Gracious!" se the winters he remembers best were th ly thinks that winter was a colder season when ain of in New York about . ar, is just finished, except that it has not matched our habits. Our usual winters are mild-mannered affairs, stiffened with half. Thi sional brief moderations There has be the winter whic ceasional cold spells lasting a day and a ast winter has been almost all cold spell, relieved by If we had known about it before- and, we could have lined our g comfortable. As it is, we have been cold, and are gl the February page off the calendar and «peculate on the possibility of tender mercies in March. nts with sheepskin Art. [HE man of affairs having come to the age when, by all the canons of polite usage, he should make an art collection, he had recourse to connoisseurs. “Gentlemen,” said he to these, “I give you cart blonsh, but I shali watch you. If I find you are filling my honse with a lot of stuff that doesn’t bore me, I shall drop you and get somebody else.”” The connoisseurs listened respectfully, perceiving that they had an extraordinary mind to deal with, YER: Higbee and his wife are very devoted. Duet. : To whom? comicbooks.com