Life, 1905-11-23 · page 7 of 22
Life — November 23, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon titled "The 'Four-Hour'" depicts an early automobile with a driver, satirizing the brief duration of a new car model or automotive trend—likely mocking either poor engineering or the rapid obsolescence of early automotive designs. The bottom image, captioned "Snapshots in Hades" with subtitle "He thought himself irresistibly fascinating to women," shows a figure in classical underworld setting. This appears to be moral satire about masculine vanity, suggesting that a man's inflated self-regard regarding his appeal to women will be exposed or judged in the afterlife. The darkly comic tone is characteristic of *Life* magazine's satirical approach to social behavior and male pretension.
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THE “UNDER bo.” Insurance Notes. RESIDENT BOUNDER of the Grafters’ Mutual, itis understood, will not raise his salary again until after he has returned from his vaca- tion, Mr. Bounder rightly believes that modesty is the best policy The Republican National Committee is having a new form printed so that at the next election policy holders can send their campaign contributions di- to the instead of ugh the insurance companies, as heretofore, the amount to be applied premium. ‘This commission, committee, on their saves one The Bubble Life Insurance Company will hereafter keep two sets of bool one for its own private us for the ind the inspection of investi- gating committces President Highfly of the Spend- thrift Life was cross-examined yester- y. He said: “LT have more to add to what | ther nothing didn’t yesterday Vice-President Puncher of the Gold ko Mutual is having written a life of himself when he was \ complete table of all fice boy raises he had in his irom sixteen t6 «lon page Soo. When printed, he will use the books as for his salary twenty-five will be fou collateral to borrow. bonds Company’s use. Last week all the employees of the Easy Mark Mutual Society, Nerve and Assurance Company presented their president with a birthday gift of a Bible. As a special token of their appreciation of his services to he world at large, the Bible was spe- cially printtd with Revelation left out ‘The directors’ meeting of the Hyde- bounders' Tontine Life and Death So- ciety, which was to have been held on Thursday handsome has been postponed owing *LIP Es to the sudden absence of the president on a fishing trip, and the were afraid that if they met, might possibly do something to dis- please him Military Ardor. HE expert having failed to agree as to why cne enlisted man out of every ten should have deserted from our army during the last fiscal year, is it open to the inexpert to make « guess ? Was it possibly Lecause of a vague feeling having gotten into the aver- age American that war is rather : poor business for grown men to te in? And are we in a way to see war collapse for lack of fools to do the actual fighting ? IFE: I buy Lire: reg: several y cibly as th issue of Nov “Ditties on in your They ought to have a very wide circulation, and if possible be put in the hands of every Christian (2) minister in this country Dz Crxetxwari, Oct. 31, 1905 M* DEAR LIFE: Hurt and mortified by your attitude toward the N.Y. Socisty for the Prevention of ‘Crnelty to Animals casion arose, to take the I determined, when organization seriously 3s it is possible for a human being to do. Recently I wrote the Society in a tone SNAPSHOTS IN HADES, THOUGHT MIMSELP IRRESISTIBLY FASCINATING TO WOMEN. comicbooks.com