Life, 1905-07-13 · page 5 of 26
Life — July 13, 1905 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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The main illustration shows two figures sitting on a bench beneath a full moon, captioned "Coming Home from Coney" (Coney Island, a popular seaside amusement area). **"The Mammon-Worshippers"** appears to be satirizing materialism and social pretense, suggesting the crowd at Coney Island values worldly goods over spiritual matters. **"A Correction"** is a brief editorial note addressing a christening announcement for a wealthy family's daughter. The piece sarcastically catalogs the infant's supposedly luxurious possessions (silks, jewels, pearls, dog-collar) while noting the actual reported value fell far below what society editors typically exaggerate in such announcements—a direct jab at both wealthy excess and media dishonesty in covering high society. The satire critiques both materialism and press sensationalism.
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COMING ‘HOME The Mammon-Worshippers. ass bore relics, The crowd bowed down, The ass thought himself the saint of the town, Progress. ie is something to live in an age when one may travel be- tween New York and Chicago in eighteen hours, or less. The effect of all our wonderful enterprise and invention is to make it man to earn his living, and by that token vastly less necessary for him ever to hurry. somebody is going to cause a great sensation ier for tly e ome d by discovering that enough is as good as too much, and after that we shall doubtless settle down and get some comfort out of our civilization. 49 FROM CONEY. A Correction. A the christening of the new daughter of one of our great families, the newspapers which print all the bosh that's fit to print found nothing worthy of mention in the infant's apparel beyond ‘*a robe of white silk, ‘dion plaited, and a white silk chiffon bonnet, on which w: spray of tiny pink rosebuds.”” It is not to be assumed, however, that there were no The child wore a tiara, a sunburst, some ropes of pearls, and a dog-collar, if not, indeed, a horse-collar, of diamonds, all as a matter of course, but these being con- structed on a relatively small scale, the aggregate bulk of the gems fell below the two quarts which is the minimum quantity reported by society editors of the better sort. sa comicbooks.com