Life, 1904-10-13 · page 6 of 22
Life — October 13, 1904 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon shows a domestic scene captioned "None But the Brave Deserves the Fair," depicting a man apparently injured or incapacitated in bed while a woman stands nearby and another man gestures animatedly in the background. This appears to be satirizing romantic rivalry or marital complications—likely mocking the notion that only courageous men deserve romantic attention. The lower illustration titled "A Bad Pane in the Middle" shows a window with broken glass, a visual pun playing on "pain" (suffering) versus "pane" (window glass). It's a simple joke cartoon. The right column contains "Kickers' Column" with a letter to the editor regarding a previous Life article about financial fraud and con artists, suggesting reader engagement with the magazine's investigative satire.
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minute, and that he was willing to spend good money to be taught some- thing that would henceforth rob him of happiness. At once text-books become indigenous to every clime, advice col- umns flourish in papers like green bay trees, and systems of instruction coin money. Suppose some foolish married man takes pains to inform himself about the cares of a house: how to find a beam in a ceiling; picture hanging ; alpha- betical plumbing ; carpet laying; shelf making, etc. What peace is there for him after that? His comfort depends upon a leaky faucet, a loose screw, a defective burner, or a thousand trifles. If he refuses to come when called, he is a brute—the personification of selfish- ness. Having been depositing knowl- edge right along, now that there is a run on the bank, he must answer all demands or suffer the consequences. It would be extremely ungallant at this late hour to blame Eve for her fatal curiosity in the beginning. For there has certainly been time enough for us to outgrow this tendency. The ‘NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVES THE FAIR." mere fact that our boasted civilization is really nothing more than a means of irritating us with so much unquiet knowledge ought to be perfect evidence of how little progress we are really Tom Masson. mya f A BAD PANE IN THE MIDDLE, Special Correspondence. [NOTE: In a recent issue of Lire, we had great pleasure in printing a certain article, entitled Frenzied Financial Frankness. This contribution was furnished Lire by one Thomas W. Lawless- son, of Boston. Mr. Lawless-son is, without doubt, well known to almost everybody as a prominent dealer in and authority on Brass; the article mentioned dealt with Brass. Asa result, the following letters of protestation have been received by the Editor of Lirg, and we again have pleasure in reproducing them.—Tue Epttor.) OFFICE oF THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Divine Ricuts. Suffer little children of men to come unto me and I will dothem good. ‘0 THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF LIFE. My Dear Sir: 10 a late issue of Lire you published an article purporting to expose the methods of a gang of swindlers doing business and people under the name of The Standhard All Gang. Now, while this article was highly inter- esting from a criminal's, or an unfortunate’s, point of view, and perhaps contained some elements of truth, in so far as it related to an comicbooks.com