Life, 1905-12-14 · page 10 of 24
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This page contains satirical commentary and jokes rather than a single coherent cartoon. The illustrations are small vignettes accompanying brief editorial quips about contemporary issues. Topics include criticism of: - American military interventions ("Isle of Pines belongs to the United States") - Political corruption and Tammany Hall grafting - Naval officer shortages - Medical school standards - Bank examiner competence - A tariff on art as government handicap - Insurance industry practices References to "President McCurdy" and "Tammany Hall" indicate early-1900s political corruption concerns. One joke contrasts American and aristocratic values regarding rank. The overall tone mocks government inefficiency, corporate malfeasance, and imperialist ambitions through brief, pointed jabs rather than elaborate visual satire.
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*LIFE- ea HIS BUBBLE. NLY half as many persons have thrown themselves into Niagara this fall as sought destruction there last fall.—Leaiseille Ti The average is kept up by the number of politicians who this year found their finish in the deep waters of Salt Creck @ Every day is a great day Indianapolis News. for literature in Indiar eS ‘The freedom of the city of London has been bestowed on General Booth, It should be a great gratification to the General to be en- abled to go in and see if the things ke has suspected about the metropolis are ri ccomplishment reserved for the trained and monocle, or a trailing skirt. cultivated mind. Something like We are threatened with a sh of naval officers.—Iashington Ad- Why cannot arrangements be made to have our medi schools graduate rear-admirals, as well especially in view of the importance tory? major-generals, { sea-power in his- of sea New York's Superintendent of Insurance seems to be fully as vigilant and capable asthe average bank examiner.—Ché- And New York's Bank Examiner is fully vigilant and capable as New York's Superin- tendent of Insurance, Both are favorite sons of Mr. Odell’s Republican State machine. Herat, in Afghanistan, is the city w Fifty. they been built Almost equal to the record of Tammany Hall. ich has been most often destroyed. times have its walls been laid Chicago Journal. ruins, and fifty-seven times have healing will cure a lame horse it ought to be good for a punctured Or.even those punctured insurance reputations. smile is the best aid to health.” San Francisco} A London doctor says that it Now is the time to subscribe ! ) This tariff on art is the greatest handicap the Government can put on the progress of art in this country That doesn’t matter. next. The elephant There may be a tariff on honesty till hungry. ‘To speak the truth, some of the American outrages on innocent and law-abiding Chinese in the Far West have been fully as atro- cious and horrible, and much less excusable.—Nerwark News. Hush! Notso loud, Our missionaries are sensi- tive. , Chicago is going to have a National Theatr ‘The real thing ? ~Boston Transcript. Or one of the Conried kind? WORLD [f¥j The symptoms are that Pres is about to drop with a thud, He has thudded. ) > man's piano-playing caused his wife to Louisville Jent McCurdy Boston Herald. A Chica sue for a Times, WwW that girl in the next flat, will stop her piano-playing if a divor Bostos Herald, But we m: New York isn Granted, so far get rid of Tammany, some day. 3 hing if not tough and elastic s our legs are concerned. The Americans who are claiming that the Isle of Pines belongs to the United Stat Jong their cause if they could dissipate the i pression that the island is annexed to Cuba at every low tide, Baltimore What's a little thing like the laws of nature among Im- perialists ? would hel <> s really no“ mystery” he Wall Street situat . Certainly not. It’s still bounded by water at one end and a graveyard at the other. } adie Joseph Cannsa oppoien tari revtslow poo ihe'groued ther'the aa: tion should leave well enough alone.—/eu lle This particular graft is ** well enough profit by it, but how about the rest of us? The “ n.— Chicago N Time for those who It grows more and more cei Herald. But it's a root for which most of us are willing to dig. money is the root of all evil.—Boston The New York &r Higgins is the proper o! Curious form of expr be resigned to Chauncey ing Fost has advised Senator Depew that Governor cial to resign to. ion that. Senator. Q Cincinnati Enguirer, ‘The rest of us have to George Bernard Shaw has the most unpardonable set of whiskers which ever grew out of a man’s face.—/%ttsburgh Dispatch. It's remarkable how hirsute and cerebral ec- centricity almost invariably go together. Young husband shipped in trun he returned {rom his honeymoon t No; not a nobleman, ‘0 money to buy ticket, pas baggage. —Daily Paper. Just an American, this time. A Crow Indian is very proud of the fact that he has turned whi Micam. No wonder. What so rare as a white crow? comicbooks.com