Life, 1904-04-14 · page 7 of 20
Life — April 14, 1904 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief satirical pieces typical of early Life magazine's format: **"Chivalry"** (top illustration): Shows young boys on horseback beneath a bridge where girls watch. The caption mocks modern manners: "Small boys on bridge: 'Au! say, Rosy! Ain't yer got no manners? Don't spit on de lady!'" The satire targets the decline of gentlemanly behavior among youth. **"Managerial Training"** (middle): A woman questions a man reading *Joe Miller's Jest Book* about writing a comic opera. His response—that he's a "manager," not an author—satirizes how business managers often lack actual expertise in their fields. **"A Diplomat"** (bottom): Mocks church decorum, where a minister lectures about an expensively dressed woman's "Easter bonnet." The satire critiques both conspicuous consumption and clergy's judgment of parishioners' appearances. These reflect turn-of-century concerns about manners, competence, and hypocrisy.
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Education. HE Rich Man by no means shut his eyes to the sacrifice of Young Girls under the Industrial System which had made him What He Was, Indeed, he freely ac- knowledged his Respon- sibility, and gave some Two Hundred Millions for the foundation of Schools, ‘Our salvation education,” said * Girls who get schooling enough are never really young.”” is in he. ESIRE is the secret fountain of Hope. Made in Heaven. T HE M widdi engagement of Dunwoody Din- clubman, whip, raconteur, and core- spondent in Bellairs, De la Van, Villiers, Warbur- ton, Billingsby, O’ Dustin and other leading divorce scandals, and Miss Ana- bel Ansonleigh, one of the season's débutantes, is authoritatively announced. The Dinwiddies family. 16h ” are a very old FAIR WARNING. SAID THE WIFE OP A GALLANT OLD SOLDIER: “VOU KNOW THAT 1 DON'T LIKE TO SCOLDIER y DUT IP YOU EVER AGAIN MENTION [MARRIED YOUR PENSION, NLL BUST YOUR OLD HEAD—Xow f've ToLDIER!” OF a, J Comacuen.. CHIVALRY Smatt Boy on WAIT FER DE GENT. Bridge: av! say, rorcyt Rushed, DOZEN operations Per day was not such fun. The doctor didn’t stop to eat,— He could only cut and run. Managerial Training. EE the man. doing ? Heisreading Joe Miller's Jest Book, A Hundred Merry Tales, and Wit and Humor of the Sixteenth Century. And will he write a comic opera ? No, my child. He is gathering in- formation which will enable him to know whether or not the comic opera is one he should put on. Then he is not an author. No, again. What is the man He is a manager. UR worst faults are the children of our dearest virtues. AIN'T VER GOT NO MANNERS? DON'T SPIT ON DE Lotpy— A Diplomat. “| OOKING over this congregation declared the an see an Easter bonnet as expended a sum suffi- spport an ordinary family fora y ch reckless expenditure should be checked. I might name the wearer of the bonnet, for she is known to you all."” After the service, one of the deacons asked the minister why he had not given the name of the woman who wore the wickedly expensive bonnet. “Do you suppose I wanted all the other women in the congregation to ishke me?" he asked, with a know- smile that ill-befitted one of his cloth. this. morning," minister, for which cient to ONSCIENCE extracted, ches, but cannot be comicbooks.com