Life, 1905-09-28 · page 17 of 24
Life — September 28, 1905 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page combines a domestic humor cartoon with book reviews. The small cartoon depicts a marital exchange: a wife proudly mentions gathering flowers for breakfast, then asks about coffee. The husband responds he "can't think of everything, darling"—a gentle satire on male obliviousness and the asymmetry of domestic labor. The joke assumes readers understand the irony: the wife *did* think of everything (flowers *and* implied other tasks), while the husband cannot manage even one thing. The cartoon illustrates early 20th-century gender dynamics—wives as homemakers managing multiple responsibilities while husbands are portrayed as helplessly forgetful about domestic details. It's mild satire rather than sharp criticism, reflecting Life's genteel humor for educated audiences. The page also reviews contemporary books on Christian ministry, Western fiction, and foreign travel guides—typical middlebrow cultural content for the period.
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She: NOW WASN'T IT THOUGHTFUL OF ME TO GO OUT EARLY AND GATHER THOSE FLOWERS FOR THE BREAKFAST TARLE ? © Fine!” (He kisses her.) WWERE'S THE COFFEE son! wUT 1 can't THINK OF everyting, DARLING, can 1?” His hero is a young Irish priest,and both he and his companion characters are soon our friends—a sure sign that th the gift of the literary * medium,” the power to materialize spirits. author possesses Justin Wingate, Ranchman, is Joon H Whitson's latest novel of Western life; a novel which has the same promise, weakened by repeated unfulfillment, and the same short- ier works, Mr, Whitson Seas hi coming: ea is animated by the very worthy ambition to center our interest on what his characters ¢re, but he never succeeds in making us care for more than what they do. It follows, since he devotes much space and effort to his chosen object, that he falls between the stools of analysis and adventure. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in his volume upon The Christian Ministry, defines the Christian religion as ‘a perception of the Infinite so manifested in the life and character of Jesus Christ that the manifestation is able to pro- 37) mote in man Christlikeness of life and char- acter,” and he defines the chicf source of feligious perception as ‘the concurrent expe- dence” of those in all ages in whom has been developed the power of so perceiving the Infinite as that their moral nature is changed by the perception. These definitions are the premises upon which is based a bro: deminded discussion of the priestly office, its functions, its aims and its authority Among the volumes which have been pub- lished during the past year, describing in pic- ture and text a number of foreign cities, are to be found some yift-books combining the un- usual attributes of beauty and actual value. The latest of these, on Nuremburg, is one of the most attractive. Mr. Arthur G. Bell's n and reproduced, and Mrs. Bell's chapters treat most entertainingly of the old town, its quaintness and its histor- pictures are well cho: ical associations, Virginia Frazer Boyle's novel, Sereva, is a story of that phase of Southern life before and during the war which has passed into a literary convention, Primarily inspired, ap- parently, by sentiment a book is plrasan tale of conditions than of personalities, and nd reminiscence, the ly written, but is rather a wholly fails to raise itself from the ret worn by earlier wheels. J. BR. Kevjo (Doubleday, Page and Comp: ene PL Lyle, Je $1.50.) / the Sun. (Robert € Cooke. $1.5 Ippleof Eden, By B. Teny Company Whitson. (Little, $1.50.) The Christian Ministry, Vy Lyman Abbot Neremburg. Painted by Arthur G, Bell and cy Bell. (The Macmillan Com Serena, Vy Virginia Frazer sand Company $0) comicbooks.com