Life, 1905-01-05 · page 25 of 36
Life — January 5, 1905 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three cartoon strips satirizing American domestic life and social pretension: **"The Dude" series** mocks a fashionable man who carelessly gets paint on his clothes, then suffers comical consequences trying to remove it—the joke being that his vanity about appearance causes him greater misfortune. **"The Social Sherlock"** satirizes women's magazine culture. A caller demonstrates she can deduce a hostess's magazine subscriptions (*The Indoor Monthly*, *Ladies' Own Journal*, etc.) by observing how her home is decorated and servants are managed—all following magazine instructions. The satire targets how women blindly follow magazine advice rather than developing independent taste. **"The Laundress"** shows working-class dialect humor, with an Irish laundress explaining how she dried a tablecloth. The page's lower half reviews contemporary books, including Dolf Wyllarde's *Captain Amyas*, described as "sensual" and brutally frank. Together, these pieces satirize consumer culture, class aspirations, and the emerging "advice industry" of women's magazines during the early 20th century.
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-LIFE.- 25 tory of a career in the British mercantile marine is an intensely effect- ive description of one way of going to the devil. Unfortunately, however, like the work of most pathological specialists, it conveys the impression that health is not only an abnormal condition but one of wholly secondary interest Some two years ago when Andy Adams's interesting Log of a Cow Bey appeared, not a few readers were moved to won Jer that so pol- ished a literary style had come out of Texas, ‘There is, however, no doubt as to the school of language attended by Charles J. Stedman, the author of a new chronicle of plains life in the days of the open range, called Bucking the Sage Brush, Mr. Steedman takes us across Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming in ‘78, and his narrative is both lively and picturesque. Guthrie of the Times, by Joseph A. Altsheler, is the story of a legislative crisis in Frankfort, Kentucky, with a sequel about ward The Dude : SO ON® CAN LAUGH AT MY MISFORTUNES WITHOUT SUFFERING politics in Louisw The book is realistic and entertaining, buc its mm interest really culminates at the conclusion of the Frankfort episode, and the addition of the Louisville postscript results in something of iL] , = a double climax with the accent misplaced. J. B. Kerfoot. The Predigat Son. By Hall Caine. (D. Appleton and Company. $1.50.) Susan Clege and Her Friend Mrs, Lathrop. By Anne Warner. (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, $1.00.) Far and Near, By John Burroughs. (Hous! 10.) Zelda Dameron. Vy Merideth Nicholson. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $1.50.) Europe and the Far East. By Sie Robert K. Douglas. (The Macmillan any. $2.00.) . Mifflin and Company. $ nee aoc = ,° Captain Amyas, By Dolf Wyllarde, (John Lane, $1.50.) Bucking the Sage Brush. Sons.) Guthrie of the Times. By Joseph A. Ausheler. (Doub Company. $1 50.) Charles J. Stedman. (G. P, Putnam's tay, Page and The Dude : sow, 18 To GkY THAT PAINT OFF WT WILL TAKE YOU A HALF DAY'S EXTRA WORK The Social Sherlock. “ H, Mrs. Fixit," observed the caller, ‘‘ I see that you take The /ndoor Monthly, The Ladies’ Own Journal, The Home Builder and The Modern Housekeeper.” “I take them," answered the hostess, ‘‘ but I wonder how you knew, I'm sure there are none of the magazines in this part of the house." “Tt is easy,” explained the caller. Your parlor is fur- nished according to the instructions of The /ndoor Monthly, your dining room is decorated after the directions of The Ladies’ Own Journal, your woodwork is in the style pre- scribed by The Home Builder, and you speak to your serv- " ants in the manner advocated by The Modern House- : UL eNeror eric Feeper.” The Laundress: vex TW LUV OF HAVIN | PHWAT DID THAT? TH stssUS "LL SWEAR Of LAID THAT TABLECLOTH ACROSS TH’ BINCH TO DHRY. OPE springs eternal in the human breast : The last new cook is sure to be the best. A timely volume in the Cambridge Historical Series is Sir Robert K. Douglas's Europe and the Far East, It is a very skilful sum- marizing of a vast subject and furnishes a convenient book of refer- Annoying. ence, while giving a clear and by no means perfunctory review of . au : the relations between European nations and China, Japan, OTEL CLERK: We have only one room left, sir, and and Annam, the bed is only big enough for one. Captain Amyas, Dolf Wyllarde’s latest study of the human type “Well, I subbose we'll haf to dake it. But I hate to haf sensual, quite out-Wyllardes Wyllarde in brutal frankness, ‘This his- my wife sleeb on der floor.”” comicbooks.com