Life, 1907-11-14 · page 6 of 20
Life — November 14, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate pieces of satirical content: 1. **"The Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink Puppet"** by Oliver Hafford: A serialized comic strip showing what appears to be a trained nurse character in domestic situations, likely satirizing early 20th-century gender roles and social expectations. 2. **"Her Kind Heart"** (poem by S.E. Kiser): Sentimental verse about a woman's compassion toward animals, contrasting with her treatment of horses. This appears to satirize selective compassion or hypocrisy. 3. **"Possibly"** and **"Tom Lawson's Worst"**: These sections reference President Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Lawson (apparently a financial/public figure), discussing panic, military matters, and newspaper sensationalism—likely from the early 1900s panic period. The overall page satirizes American social pretension and political/economic anxieties of the era.
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582 -LIFE- The Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink Puppet Her Kind Heart a T MAKES her sad to hear another sigl Or, The Genteel Art of Illustrating I A gentle heart is beating in her breast; By Oliver Herford ’Twould pain her if she had to harm a fly, (Continued) But her dog has lost the tail he once possessed. She has had his ears clipped closely to his head, And looks upon him now with deepest pride; At night she lets him sleep upon her bed, And when she drives he nestles at her side. She wouldn't hurt the feelings of a cat, "Twould grieve her if on pussy’s tail she rocked; In passing it may be recorded that She recently has had her horses docked. ’Twould pain her if she had to harm a fly, Yet while the kindest feelings through her flit She always has her horses reined as high As cruel bits and leather will permit. S. E. Kiser. “PAPA, what is margin?” “My son, it is an ever-present lack in time of trouble.” Possibly 'T IS possible that we may now see a partial transfer of the President’s energies from the TP important work of being angry with the wicked {I to the equally important work of saving the pieces. There was a Civil War general who paid so much attention in a battle to directing the firing of a field-piece near his headquarters that he neglected the general situation and lost the fight. It is pretty generally felt that the President has diverted more time and thought than the situation could spare to firing off his own gun. At this terrible news Bertie went to pieces completely. Fortunately the Trained Nurse arrived just in time to pull him together, I 4 A a “The sound of your train soothes me,” said Bertie, feebly. “Is that why you wear it?” “No.” she replied, naively; “I weara train because Tama Trained Nure.”” Tom Lawson's Worst ET us remember that when the recent panic was at its worst Thomas Lawson did what he could to aggravate it. His advertisement in the World on October 24 was skilfully adapted to scare frightened folks clean out of their shaken wits. Why the World should have published such a communication at such a time is not easily under- SS RCAGE he elbed UNG a" Brcenser to. jou alld. Bile: geslly ball raily,'acicilng stood. It was like letting Tom touch off fireworks in a himself from her embrace. “Iam in Jove with Angelina and Ethelberta, and no gcotle- powder-factory. man can be genteelly in Jove with more than two ladies at the same time.”