Life, 1906-08-30 · page 9 of 20
Life — August 30, 1906 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon, titled "MORE TO THE POINT," depicts two men in conversation about insurance. The left figure (identified as "Insurance Agent") appears to be pitching a policy, while the right figure ("Hiram Hagood") responds skeptically. The joke concerns the agent's pitch about insurance protection—Hagood quips that he needs assurance the insurance company itself will remain solvent to pay claims. The lower section, "Pax Vobiscum," discusses a British Admiral's statement about naval expenditure. The accompanying military illustration shows a formal soldier, likely satirizing militarism and peace rhetoric. The page concludes with a correspondence-school advertisement for "Lion and Tiger Taming" instruction, which appears humorous rather than serious editorial content.
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*LIFE: 225 — “If you don’t want to fight, By Jing! the thing to do Is to have no end of ships, and men, And, of course, of moncy, too.” do to make peace too cheap. To die for one’s sweet as ever it was, and where a high-spirited people are not permitted to fall in battle, they natura’y’ demand to be taxed to death, or know the reason why. Morals to rel Jockeys, as a general thing. it ix s ‘ew York not pay them to be anything else.— re honest only because it does pening Post HAT can it be that singles jockeys out, and sets them apart from mankind at large, in this unhappy way? Are we to Conclude that constant association with horses, hitherto esteemed the noblest of beasts, has the effect of impairing the moral fibre of the human nature? At all events, it is fortunate that relatively few can ever become jockeys. Indeed, when we consider that only men who weigh less than 110 pounds are fit to ride in races, it almost seems as if Providence, after all, were rather on the side of sound morals. ISDOM is dearly won by loss of the power of wondering. Instruction by Correspondence LION wees own home, by our never-failing MORE TO THE POINT Mail Method. From Circuses and Menageries we have PcoOD, I'D LIKE TO TALK WITH you ABOUT TaxiNe ovr more applications than we can fill for Lion and TicER wepomanes (Fone WHITE You THE BIST kixD OF roLictes—onam, mr, oR TAMERS € hibiting at $5,000 per year up, so don’t YOU pis SHEURALICE COUIBANIES. HILL-SACK WITH F080. and TiGer Tam1nc can be mastered during your spare time and evenings. You needn’t even see or hear a lion f Pax Vobiscum (except social ones) during our full course of six weeks? f 3 tuition, True-to-life and life-size representations of HEN the Financial Secretary of the British jungles, forests, dens, circus cag id tents, blood-curd- Admiralty, addressing himself to the fact that ling roars, etc., provided by our patented Leo BrocRapn the naval expenditure of the Great Powers is half AND PuonocrapH OutrFit which, with a bottle of our again larger since The Hague Conference than it wonderful Leo NERV TRACT, is furnished free to all was before, confe: to the belief that this is a our students. Our roth year of successful tuition. menace to the peace of the world, he astonishes us, and leads us almost to suspect that he has not read our President's messages understandingly. If anything is more thoroughly settled than another, leaving our of comparison such abso- lute fixities as Kepler’s Laws, the Monroe Doctrine, and the shape of génts’ spring hats, it is that wooing peace is not the way to get definite results. Peace has got to be bullied, much as if she were China, or a member of Congress with a mind of his* own Ob- viously, this means fighting gear, and lots of it. In the. words of the grand old song: Bakes Insurance Agent: 4x ENROLL NOW Lire Aug. 30, ‘06 comicbooks.com