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This page satirizes early 20th-century American politics and society through brief commentary items and illustrations. The main cartoon depicts two caricatured figures labeled "Lean Packings" discussing capitalism and fat ministers staying home—likely critiquing wealth inequality and religious hypocrisy during the Progressive Era. Other items mock various targets: Senator Follette's physical stature, European travel pretensions, police brutality, opera impresario Herr Conried, and skyscraper construction. The "bubble world" title suggests these are frivolous concerns disconnected from reality. The opening section ("M. R.A. FOLLETTE'S feet...") appears to mock Progressive reformer Robert La Follette, while other references target contemporary politicians and social figures through wordplay and visual caricature, typical of Life's satirical approach to 1910s-era American society.

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This Bubble R. LA FOLLETTE’S feet do not reach the floor when he sits in his Senate chair.—/ it News, What a Senator is doing with his feet isn’t so important as what he is doing with his head and hands. ¢ George Goi Thomas F. Ry J, Edwin Gould, the three Have meyers, Reginald Vanderbilt, John A. McCall, James Hazen Hyde, Richard A. McCurdy, George W. Perkins, James W. Alexander and dozens of other men whose names are synonymous with millions i Wall Street are conspicuous by their absence from the tax list. York Werld. But the rest of us are only too happy to make up the deficiency. e e Owing to the duty on hides, leather costs the shoemaker sixteen cents a pound.— Trade Notes. If we can't get an idea throug! our heads, possibly we can get it through our feet. « /, would go into hysterics at a funeral, ‘The man who would laugh at / Canadian News. Is England losing her hold on the colonies ? Mrs, Vanderbilt, who was among the early arrivals, was in a gown of black crépe de Chine elaborately embroidered, also in black.—.Vew Vork Herald, Sam Stowe's dog, Dewey, who had been spending the summer with Price irks, has come into town. —iWest Lafayette (Ohio) /ndicator, News is news. we Work will be begun next month on a fourteen and Market Streets, Louisville Times. Nowadays fourteen stories don’t make a skyscraper, any more than a million makes a millionaire. hey live there. ory skyscraper at Fourth men of Chicago look anxio Why shouldn't they ? Sh ise. Omaha World. And it would be very popular in a certain part of the next world. eRLIN, January 8. —Emperor William is keeping to his bed to-day in con- sequence of aslight cold. He is receiving the usual reports in his apartment Press Dispatch . With his br. Imet and boots on, of course, ) It isn't a question so much as to whether Nernhardt hall play in Texas, but whether a vulgar and greedy combination in New York shall control the theatres of Texas in violation of law.—//ouston World 433 is keeping wew from the minis- try.—New Vork Pest. The italics are ours. And, besides, most of the statesmen had resolved to ac cept no more free passes anyway.— The Newark News a More paving stones for Hades ! 7 bes A man has been arrested for swindling Arsericans in Paris Washington Star. All the plea travel are disappearing one by one. . ) Princess Ena has a regal presence, but Alfonso is decidedly petite N * ich will enable her to deal properly with him when he comes home at 4 a. m. singing: Ena, mena, mona, sures and illusions of foreign mit” y “~ i Mr. H. H. Rogers objects to having his picture taken.—IWaskington Star Down at police headquarters they f and hold their heads still. sten ‘em in a chair oe A bill has been offered in the Kentucky Legi politics, —S¢. Joseph Ne According to Mr. Jerome, in New York we ought to try to keep politics out of our judges. <p atied’s chorusless opera may thrive, but we'll bet a yen there'll be re to keep judges out of Herr a baldless-first-three-rows.—Bu Jato News, Evidently the Buffalo man never saw Herr Conried’s chorus. ° LEAN PICKINGS. Dr. Primrose: Mow DD VOU COME TO GIVE UP CANNIBALISM? “THERE WASN'T ENOUGH IN IT, 1 NOTICKD THAT THE PAT MUNISTERS ALWAYS STAVED AT Hoa comicbooks.com