Life, 1904-07-07 · page 21 of 40
Life — July 7, 1904 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century *Life* magazine humor: **"Two Standpoints"** (main cartoon): A man confesses he loved only his wife despite being "diverted" by other women when sad, tired, or lonely. When she claims to understand because she too was "diverted and cheered and loved," he immediately leaves. The satire exposes male hypocrisy: men expect forgiveness for infidelity justified by continued "true love," but cannot accept the same logic from women—revealing the double standard in contemporary marriage expectations. **Other brief pieces** mock modern pretensions: "Posing" satirizes busy men's vanity; "From the Diary of a Financier" ridicules universities awarding inflated degrees to graduates unprepared for real work; "A Soporific Tie" makes a pun about boring acquaintances. The humor targets established institutions and social hypocrisy rather than specific political figures or events.
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Voice Through the Keyhole Two Standpoints. ie OMEN think so differently,”’ he said, “I can never make you understand.” “Try 1" she replied. “Well,” he began, ‘‘all the time, every day, every hour, every minute, I have loved you, only you, best of all the world.”” He paused. **Yes?" she queried encouragingly. “But you were not there, and so, when I was sad, one there was who diverted me, and I was grateful to her; when I was tired, one sang to me, and T loved her music ; when I was lonely, another gave me her heart, and it cheered me—oh,” he broke off, wearily TAKE WER, M1; SMBS VOURN. passing his hand across his brow, ‘I can never make you understand how all the time, through and above and beyond all else, I loved only you.”* “You are wrong,” she replied. “1 do understand."" He looked up quickly and, leaning forward, grasped both her hands. ‘Yes, she continued, ‘‘I under- stand because I, too, have been diverted and cheered and loved—" He sprang to his feet. “Good-bye,” he said boarsely, lifted her fingers to his lips and turned away. “But,” she cried out, ‘through it all I have loved only —" But he was gone. Dixie Wolcott. 21 Posing. | he the perfect day, men will direct the force which they now spend in posing, to the conduct of their business, This means that courts will catch up with their dockets, the clergy will lift all church mortgages, Congress will invariably adjourn before April 1, doctors will acquire all the money, making Trusts a thing of the past, and litterateurs will write the great American novel every crack. But for the present, posing has its uses, inasmuch as it is about the only form of phys- ical exercise which busy men can be induced to take with regularity. From the Diary of a Financier. ODERN education is superficial and imprac- tical to the last degree. To-day a youth came tome saying he had just graduated from the School of Commerce of one of our most famous universities. He showed me his diploma, which bestowed on him the degree of Doctor of Accounts, cum summa laude. But when I gave him some simple accounts to doctor, he brought me a bi ce sheet which wouldn’t fool the veriest sucker ever born. Bah! Running Down Hill. IRST BABY: You look below par. Seconp Basy: Yes. I haven't absorbed an unfriendly germ for so long now that I’m losing all power of resistance. T’S all very delightful for a tree to be shady —except when it hap- pens to be a family one. A Soporific Tie. “Dp? you know my friend from Philadelphia ?"* “T have a nodding acquaintance with bim.” comicbooks.com