Life, 1905-03-30 · page 9 of 24
Life — March 30, 1905 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **three distinct pieces of satirical content**: 1. **"We Are Chloroforming Grandpa"** (poem, top left): A darkly humorous verse about elderly relatives becoming burdensome. The satire mocks the callousness of families viewing aging parents as inconvenient obstacles to be medicated or removed, while pretending concern for their welfare. 2. **"Snap Shots in Hades" (illustration, top right)**: A theatrical scene depicting souls or figures in the underworld, likely satirizing artistic temperament or pretension among creative types. 3. **"Order" and "Unexaggerated" (bottom sections)**: Short anecdotal pieces. The first ridicules women's club meeting decorum; the second jokes about war's horrors, with a punchline about safety razors—contemporary consumer humor rather than political satire. The overall tone targets domestic absurdities and social pretension.
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We Are Chloroforming Grandpa. E are chloroforming Grandpa, In our laboratory snug, For we've been to Dr. Osler, Who has furnished us the drug. Grandpa hates asphyxiation nd is kicking up a roar; hough he ought to die contented, Since his useful days are o'er. We are chloroforming Grandpa. ‘Tis a dire and fatal plunge, But we're sure the old man needs it (Willi Grai Tun and get the sponge.) ndpa’s such a hale old fellow, If he wasn’t put away He would still continue working Twelve or fourteen hoursa day. Little Johnnie ( such a bright boy !) Runs a railroad and a bank; Baby Jim conducts a journal, And a Senator is Frank. Boys of sixtec ghteen, twenty Now direct the hum What's the use of having Grandpa Merely loafing round the place? an race— We are chloroforming ( Don andpa— you hear his feeble moan ? a is. a nice old fellow And it’s sad to have him groan— Shall we take him out, my brothers, Ere he dies beneath the lid ? e talked with Dr, Osler he says it must be d Wallace Irwin ion as to the Aphrodite Megs role Thir or mere- TTS A THZ SHADE UP THERE STANDING ON HIS HEAD IS ONE OF THESE ” PeRAMENt AST MOMENT. MON NEAR-BY CLIMOS THE LADDER EVE “ON, VERY WELL—JUST THIS ONCE, BUT THIS Is THE LAST THT.” SNAP SHOTS IN HADES. A Case op Artistic Tesreramest <THY TYPE THAT DELIGHTS IN UFSETTING THE PLANS OF OTHER SAND TIPS MIM OVE yoTeN Mis Order. T 2 chairlady rapped sharply. It ought not to be necessary for the chair to remind ander our rules of member she said se noth \ ut x of common courtesy, only one ys em- at a time. Any member who becomes the same time that anothe tof order.” ¢ ladies of the club visibly cringed under this merited Many of them flushed to the roots of their bair, I there were who burst into tears. member is silent, is dis- Unexaggerated. has ever been since the world began were intermixed with all the clouds that have been in > sky since the beginnin the whole com. pressed into a gigantic blotting-pad, it could not blot out the horrors of that moment.” “What moment?" “The moment I tried to use the safe! gave me,"" : razor my wife comicbooks.com