Life, 1904-09-15 · page 3 of 20
Life — September 15, 1904 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief satirical pieces rather than a single cartoon: **"Loss"** jokes about a father discovering his sons raided his cuff links and collars, losing "a thousand dollars." **"Philanthropy"** announces General McFudge's donation to McFudge University, detailing campus improvements and the alumni's gift of a chapel with McFudge "crowned by the Muses"—satirizing wealthy industrialists' vanity projects and self-aggrandizing philanthropy. **"Evidence," "Awful Thought,"** and "Society"** are brief comic dialogues mocking social conventions: women's tactlessness, marital anxiety, and divorce etiquette among the wealthy. **"A Speaking Likeness"** contains a domestic joke about a wife's changing appearance. The overall theme critiques upper-class pretension, materialism, and social anxieties of the era.
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Loss. ACK and Harry, hunting trouble, Tried to run Dad's auto-bubble— ad found some shreds of cuffs and collars, And sighed, ‘* There goes a thousand dollars!" Philanthropy. r is announced by authority that General McFudge has made another princely donation to McFudge Univer- sity. Gold floors will be laid in all the build- ings of the institution; an equatorial tele- scope, with an aperture of forty feet, will be mounted; the museums will be enlarged until they cover eighty acres, and one hundred million volumes will be added to the library. The determination is to make McFudge the equal of any school in the United States. No professor is paid less than one thousand dollars a week at McFudge, and this broad policy is attracting the best scholarship of the age. With an especial endowment of a billion dollars, the income of which is devoted in perpe- tuity to bribing students to attend, it is felt that the future of the University is assured. The alumni of the school have just donated a magnificent altar piece for the Chapel. It represents General Mc- Fudge being crowned by the Muses. Evidence. | she lacking in tact as a hos! ‘Is she lacking in tact? She's the kind that would ask Bishop Potter to take Carrie Nation into dinner." Awful Thought. S TRAWBER (dejectedly): I'm afraid that heartless flirt of a girl is going to jilt me. She shows evidence of getting tired of me. SinGeRLY : Don't be too hard on her, old man, Suppose you had been making love to yourself for two or three months. A Speaking Likeness. Society. Would it make you tired ? RS. FONDMAR: Don't you H Can't we just quietly sepa- think baby grows more like me rate without getting a formal ‘“* _ DON’T know what we shall do if every da divorce ? expenses keep on increasing.”” Foxpmar: Yes, dear, especially so Ste: But I'm already engaged to “Isn't it fierce? Why, my last home since she began to talk. another. cost nearly two millions !" “DIE LORELEI.” comicbooks.com