Life — September 27, 1906 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Life Magazine, September 27, 1906 This page features a religious cartoon depicting St. Peter (identified by his halo and robes) speaking to St. Anthony. The caption reads: "ST. PETER: NO, ANTHONY, NO. WE MAY HAVE THINGS HERE YOU WOULD OBJECT TO." The satire appears to target Anthony's ascetic religious practices—he was a historical saint known for extreme self-denial and withdrawal from worldly pleasures. The joke suggests that even Heaven contains comforts or compromises that a strict ascetic like Anthony would reject on principle, implying his standards were so impossibly rigid that even paradise couldn't satisfy him. This reflects early 1900s satirical commentary on extreme religious devotion and monasticism.