Life, 1908-05-14 · page 3 of 20
Life — May 14, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts a man in formal attire abandoning his wife to spend an evening at his club. The caption reads "JACK QUITS HIS CLUB TO SPEND AN EVENING WITH HIS DOTING WIFE" — the irony being that leaving the club for his wife is presented as noteworthy, suggesting husbands typically neglect domestic life for male social spaces. The text sections below discuss various topics: Prince Humbert's marriage prospects, President Eliot's concerns about university graduates unprepared for real life, London's Shakespeare monument plans, and satirical asides on Wall Street sensitivity and reform. The overall theme mocks upper-class priorities—male social clubs, financial speculation, and institutional vanity—while critiquing how ordinary domestic duties become remarkable when men actually fulfill them.
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JACK QUITS Prospectus ‘ (Special to Life) PARIS. May Hustlers F investing publi e pleas notice that they have underwritten the stock issue of the Prince Hunwaukesha Corpora- tion and are now offering a block of these fine securities for sale Prince Hunwaukesha will sail on July 1 for Newport, U. S. A., where he will meet all the foremost heiresses. The directors of the corporation feel it expedient that his Highness change his clothes at least twelve times a day, that he tip the waiters in the style to which they are accustomed and that he lose at bridge freely. It is to defray these charges that the stock is being sold. HIS CLUB TO SPEND AN EVENING It is offered at 10 francs. Prince Hun- waukesha has to marry only ten millions in order to make it worth 20 francs. We are confident that Prince Hunwauke- sha will marry at Icast one hundred millions. The Graduates Couldn't Stand It RESIDENT ELIOT presumes to be- lieve that two intercollegiate contests a year are enough in any sport. Enough for the undergraduates, very likely, but how about the graduates? That would only give them six good chances to turn out in all the whole long year! And some of those chances would be unavail- able! Awful! Worse for them than State pro- WITH HIS DOTING WIFE hibition and the antibetting laws, because inclusive of the inconveniences of those re- straints and of deprivation of sport besides. Useless ONDON plans a monument to Shakes- peare. Sheer waste of good mone: Put up monuments to folks who are in danger of being forgotten. “NYHY is Wall Strcet so sensitive to criticism?” “ Because it is only skin deep.” ILLIE: What is a reformer, pa? Pa: Oh, a man on the wrong side of the market comicbooks.com