Life, 1905-06-08 · page 8 of 26
Life — June 8, 1905 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: 1. **"The Saw"** - A brief dialogue between characters named Folly and Wisdom, presenting contrasting perspectives on precedent and rules. 2. **"A Curious Inconsistency"** - A longer satirical story about a wealthy Fifth Avenue philanthropist who publicly denounces animal cruelty while his own horses are mistreated and nervously prancing. The story highlights hypocrisy: he lectures others about animal care while his own animals suffer from neglect and abuse. The horses themselves offer commentary on this moral contradiction. 3. **"Little Glimpses of Married Life"** - A cartoon illustration showing a domestic scene with accompanying humor about marriage. The page's overall theme satirizes Victorian-era hypocrisy, particularly among the wealthy elite regarding moral principles versus actual behavior.
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The Saw. “ Friend, the preced- Is yours, and rightly too.” smiled and bowed: I must come after you.” A Curious Inconsistency. RICH philanthropist,who was driving up Fifth Avenue, saw a truckman beating an aged and dejected horse. His blood boiled indignation at the sight, and leaping from his carriage he called a policeman, and insisted upon the arrest of the brutal driver. WI he was expostulating loudly with the offender, and ha- rim upon his cruelty, his tlesome horses pranced yout in an apparent fever of restlessness. After watching their antics for afew moments in silence, the horse which had just rece with ranguing own me nervously a g lifted up his voice in pi- beat ous th: * Laus Domi nksgiving Tam not as other horses, even as those aristocrats. You,’’ address- ing the dancing animals, “ have nty fare, and grooms to care for your s coats. You dash out each ¢ the pride and ing harness, ad of all; while 1 am overworked, uncared for, beaten. “But what are m compared to yours? forced to endure agonies be which an occasional blow is as naught. Your heads are jerked LITTLE GLIMPSES OF MARRIED LIFE. sumptuous. stables, RAYEES ISHED back at an unnatural “MANY LUCK WITH THE GERANIUMS, DEAR?" ing angle, and your glossy delicate skin) 4 the overhead check, may be made She Needed a Rest. flies, against whose onslaught you plain." — . There is one thing Iwill never see [JR TI B+ Your daughter without prompt interference," observed who! bas just ‘left the ‘roo the rich phi not defend yours have been cruelly docked.” “ Alas, brother," replied one of the ncing steeds, nur words are those of our own eS, as your ta scarcely replicd when I addressed t ; s she reserved ? - “and that is cruclty to 18 She reserved? _ , . Mrs. FoxpManx: I think not Mrs. Wilson Woodrow have an idea that she’s retiring ! sistencies of the: FICER DOOLA der at the sound of a whip when in the Yale crew ! applied to us, but ruthlessly dock ALevARD: What had they been E our tails, and countenance the use of doing? hropist, as he entered. pr true ; but non his broug dumb t but I class can fully appreciate our suf ings. In some future world the : humans, who shud- ncon- Tonce pulled RY scandal has a golden lining.