Life, 1907-03-28 · page 5 of 24
Life — March 28, 1907 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon illustrates "Everything in Season; or, Choosing the Site for the Summer Cottage"—depicting well-dressed figures discussing real estate by a waterfront. This satirizes wealthy Americans' seasonal migration patterns and the competitive real estate market for summer homes, a common leisure pursuit among the affluent. The text columns address unrelated topics: "Another Shortage" discusses New York Central railroad labor issues, while "Worthy of His Hire" debates whether legislators should be paid for opening daily prayer sessions in the state legislature. The cartoon's humor targets upper-class pretension and materialism around vacation property—a recognizable concern for Life's educated readership. The specific legislative debate appears to reflect early 20th-century American church-state tensions.
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EVERYTHING IN SEASON; OR, CHOOSING THE SITE FOR THE SUMMER COTTAGE Another Shortage 'T’S a long lane that has no turning. If you don’t believe it, hear the doleful plea of the senior vice-president of the New York Central, wherein he implores the public to be AX fair with the railroads. Was it not a president of the New York Central who said: “The public be damned!” ? The beauty of our civilization seems to be that it isn’t the pregnant hinges of the same fellow’s knee which are all thetime having to be crooked. The shoe does at length get on the other foot, somebody else’s ox does eventually find himself gored, and there comes the time, now and then, when the worm gains more by turning than the mere physical exercise. Owing to the hard winter, or something or other, there is likely to be a rather marked shortage of other cheek for quite a spell to come. GFLF-MADE men always think well of their creator. Worthy of His Hire Te ministers of Albany say they would rather not be paid for their services in opening the daily sessions of the Legis- lature with prayer. For reasons not set forth, they prefer to do it for nothing—whichis niceof them. The Legislature in turn must be moderate in its expectations from them. It is not to be expected, for example, that a volunteer should rival such a performance as that of Chaplain Cowden, of the House of Representatives, who, in his opening supplication on the day (February 2) set apart for eulogies on the late Senator Gorman, returned thanks to the Giver of All Good for one ‘who by earnest and faithful endeavor rose from the humble position of a page on the floor of the United States Senate to be a member of that august body, and who by common consent became the leader of his party, than which no greater encomium could be pro- nounced, no grander monument reared to his memory.” Tributes of this nature call for specialized professional talent, which surely deserves to be requited. comicbooks.com