Life, 1905-03-16 · page 9 of 28
Life — March 16, 1905 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains three satirical pieces mocking privileged children and clergy: **"Our Boys: Chauncey"** - A caricature of an entitled, well-to-do boy from wealthy Manhattan society who attends exclusive boarding schools. The satire ridicules his smugness, lack of genuine accomplishment, and the way his parents indulge his mediocrity despite his social ineptitude. **"Got the Crowd"** - A brief anecdote mocking Reverend Sixthly's manipulative preaching tactics—specifically his strategy to attract female parishioners to church by substituting fashionable bonnets for collection plates. **"Complete"** - A short joke about the Orville Swells, new society members whose "hyphen" and "appendices" have been surgically added—satirizing the artificial pretension of newly wealthy families attempting social climbing. The cartoons collectively critique American upper-class affectation and spiritual hypocrisy.
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OUR BOYS. Ciauncey AUNCEY is a litle boy who had almost enough others. He is not very good at games, having been beaten > succeed, and whose sei talk. Ch tral Railroad, and played t of modesty is at railroad and politics, but he has done better at matri- 1 if it were not so 1 d to keep him still he would be nt to any little boys who wrote picces for the papers. But the lite uncivilized society. He goes to the Senate school in Wash hoys told on him and by and by every hood knew all about him. Ch y his inability te used to with all the He is a very lovable ch live ¢ an ornam! private boarding school for some of our little ncey t pe they say he doesn’t stand well in his fellow and loves to tell stories that he has picke p from class aps when he grows up to be a man, however, other people. He i very fond of and when he m: rn that silence is golde at alway of man has the b have been given to him by minstrels and dd the more gold a he gets on hon mets tha | Got the Crowd. “ EVEREND SIXTHLY is always thinking up some way to fill his chureh with women," says th “He argues that if he gets them to come, they will bring their husbands with them." ** Not bad reasoning, that."" ‘No, indeed. Why, last Easter he had nearly the whole him preach.” has his poe in the Senate school uger his pea town to h “He did “Yes. He announced that instead of passing the usual plates for the collection, pattern bonnets from milliners would be substituted."* leading Complete. ASPAR: So the Orvill Swells have really got into Sure they have. They have had a hyphen WHAT'S THE CUR-PICULUM ? put in and their appendixes taken out. Boston Terrier: 1N BOSTON WE'RE STARTING A DOG COLLEGE, Pug: comicbooks.com