Life, 1906-05-31 · page 8 of 22
Life — May 31, 1906 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page contains two sections: **Top section** discusses Boston's Fourth Annual Work Horse Parade (May 3), where Mr. Henry C. Merwin presided. The parade excluded unfit horses, establishing standards for working animals in the city. **Bottom cartoons** satirize marriage through two scenarios: Left cartoon mocks a man claiming his wife is "always some gruff who will whisper 'if I aint!'" while she's excluded—satirizing domestic nagging and marital discord. Right cartoon ("Why They Married") shows a couple perfectly matched because she's "exactly as good a talker" as he is and "listens equally well"—ironic commentary suggesting couples succeed when both equally dominate conversation, poking fun at marital compatibility and communication patterns of the era.
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664 Boston's Work Horse Parade OSTON’S Fourth Annual Work Horse Parade is to be held on May 30 by the Boston Work Horse Parade Association, of which Mr. Henry C. Merwin is president, ‘Any horse that is dock-tailed, lame, sick, thin, out of con- dition or otherwise unfit for work will be excluded from the parade.” So the rule runs. It seems hard on some horses who are not responsible for their appearance, but it is obviously a useful rule. It will be noted that no Boston horse is excluded because he wears glasses. The superior horses get medals and prizes. The parade seems now to be well established as a feature of Boston life. We wish there might be a compulsory parade in New York of horses whose noses are held upin theair by check-rein: -LIFE- policemen to sit up with the drivers and protect them and competent judges to decide which drivers should pay twenty- five-dollar fines and which should pay only ten dollars. The check-rein folly, which has come back into fashion again, is disgusting. Guilty ! st PETER: Ah, so you've been dese- crating the Sabbath? New Arrival: I wasn’t aware of it Sr. Peter (sfernly): Haven't you made a practice of going to sacred concerts? Thanks, Neighbor To AN esteemed contemporary, pub- lished in another city, we are in- debted for these words of encouragement: LEPROSY IN NEW YORK Manhattan has a colony of lepers. ‘T people are not numerous, but they are afilicted with as virulent 'a type of the WHY THEY MARRIED disease as ever was known to prevail among the poor putrescent victims in Molokai or any other segregated leper community. Unfortunately, the affection docs not show itself exteriorly. wn in the morbid hearts of the venal coterie where naught but hate, malice and fiendish fanaticism fourish. : . : The black current of vile corruption probably will flow on until the devil gets the last one of his own. Just at present the head of the festering fountain appears to be LirE, a misnamed journal in which there is abso- lutely nothing but moral death. ILLS are hard to swallow, operations are not so stylish as they were and mud baths are a good ways from godli- ness. Why, then, shouldn't. Christian Science come in? If our faith doesn’t make us whole, it will at least ma easy money, and that’s about all any tem of doctoring has ever done for us, anyway. TIWSE. PEOPLE ARE MATED EXACTLY, AND ALL THAT REMAINS 15 TO TELL THAT SHE IS A BULLY GOOD TALKER AND JIE LISTENS EQUALLY WELL! “THAT WOMAN MARRIED!” LITEAR YOU EXCLAIM: YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF PEOPLE IS SMALL, THERE 1S ALWAYS Sox CHUMP WHO WILL WiispER “ye T! Ang!” WHILE REAL PEACHES ARE LEFT BY THE WALL!