Life, 1906-04-19 · page 13 of 28
Life — April 19, 1906 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page features satirical commentary and a central cartoon labeled "Life's Weather Forecast: Very Unsettled." The main illustration depicts figures being blown about chaotically, suggesting political or social turbulence of the era. The text snippets mock various contemporary figures and situations: a Chicago resident's claim that "a kiss is music," concerns about presidential transportation, Senator David B. Hill's political positioning, and references to Mark Twain, President Castro, and the Monroe Doctrine. The scattered quips target politicians' hypocrisy, public figures' pretensions, and social absurdities. The "unsettled weather" metaphor appears to comment on the unstable political climate, with the swirling composition visually reinforcing this sense of chaos and unpredictability in American public life.
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HERE is a res Herald. In which the “repeat” sign occurs oftener than any other. xy Congress won't stand for a private car for the President.—San Francisco News-Letter, Better an official car than a family warship. cheaper. ; m ExSenator David B. Hill says be is content to be a looker-on in politics. — New York Tribune. No more content than the people are to have him, lent of Chicago who says that *a kiss is music."—Chicago It would be SH _ Don't hit the street car conductor; he may be only observing the rules.—Evening Sun, We've got to hit somebody, and it might as well be Tom Ryan. RQ After a while it will be impossible to tell an educated from an uneducated man by his spelling.—Philadelphia Press. Don’t worry. Educated men haven’t started to use the “reformed” spelling yet. x Possibly young Mr. Patterson, of Chica; a Socialist. He may be only an Anarchi: Cincinnati Commercial. More likely the latter. Persons who can’t think straight delight in calling themselv something other than cranks. Two brothers in Georgia with literary ambitions killed three men in order to be ab write a vivid novel of murder at first hand.— Balti s mistaken when he calls himself . of possibly just a plain crank.— It would be difficult to convict them if they had used some of their fellow-novelists for this purpose. ce It is not always good Literature that has the largest saks o cives the warmest praise from quarters least expected.—The Critic. This is news. & It is easy enough to bluff the theatre trust if you hold a better hand. —Chi- cago News. Tust try it, neighbor. UFE’S WEATHER FORECAST VERY UNSETTLED A Baptist preacher in Akron, Ohio, declared in a sermon that there is no hell.—Houston Post. Iv’s a foolish preacher that quarrels with his bread and butter. oo? r Mark Twain spurns a seat in the United States Senat Cincinnati Enquirer, Pretty late in life for Mark to put the first smirch on his reputation. i ror) A derk in a New York life insurance company has been arrested on the charge of stealing $105.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. If he used it himself, he’s guilty of larceny. If he gave it toa political friend, he can enjoy himself under prolonged abuse of the writ of habeas corpus. i] President Castro's proposal to test the Monroe Doctrine. —Nei York Commercial President Castro will please take notice that the Monroe Doctrine has been stuffed and stored away with the bears, bobcats and other victims of Theodore’s prowess. A Were Dallas girls have formed an anti-kissing club.—Jndiana polis News. One another, or the boys? Modern spiritualisen has just celebrated its fifty-cighth anaiversary.—Somer- Christian Science isn’t as old as that, but it’s doing very nicely, thank you. # Mr. Bryan is “seeing theelephant in India. —Chillicothe Butletis In America the elephant saw him first and walked all over him. ~ An Ohio court has decided that a school teacher's usefulness is ended. when she becomes engaged.— Pilts- burgh Dispatch ‘The man in the case prob- differs with that de- cision. fh w Two's company and three’s a crowd, even among kings.—Boston Hercid. ‘Three kings isn’t a crowd. It’s a pretty fair hand comicbooks.com