Life, 1908-07-23 · page 9 of 20
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The page contains two distinct sections: **Top Section:** A satirical article titled "At the Expense of the People" criticizes Secretary Straus's Newport social visit, arguing government officials shouldn't burden taxpayers by bringing their entire families on pleasure outings. The piece mocks the expectation that navy vessels accommodate all relatives of government workers. **Bottom Section:** A cartoon titled "Raid Silas in Accents Emphatic" depicts a character (Silas) complaining about rheumatism while another figure responds with sarcasm about divine punishment. The joke plays on Silas's exaggerated dialect and physical ailments. The page also includes sections on "Steel" (industrial uses) and "Shocking" (theater criticism), alongside a maritime illustration labeled "Advice to Yachtsmen: Always Have Your Fender Handy."
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95 At the Expense of the People SECRETARY STRAUS AT NEWPORT. Newrorr, July 7.—Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and Mrs. Straus arrived at Newport yesterday afternoon on the lighthouse tender Mayflower with the Secretary's brother and the latter's wife. The party came from Wood's Hole to Newport and will remain only for a day or so.—Press Despatch. OOD. It’s to be hoped that the urgent government busi- ness which necessitated Secretary Straus’s presence in Newport at the height of the fashionable season has been * successfully accomplished. Also that Mrs. Straus enjoyed the social amenities of that pleasant watering place. And that “the Secretary’s brother and the latter's wife" also had a good time, But where were all the little Straisses? And the Uncle Strauses and the Cousin Strauses and their wives? No member of the Straus family should have been omitted in this jaunt to Newport. It is pleasant to see a subordinate so faithfully following the example of an exalted official superior. But if every government official and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts are equally faithful, won't it be necessary to enlarge the navy to provide boats enough for them all? Steel TEEL is used in the manufacture of buildings, boats and Pittsburg millionaires. In the form of sky scrapers, it advertises Insurance Companies, and has entered quite largely into the construction of both Houses of Congress. It has also been used in the White House. Steel comes in many forms, from the ten penny nail to the Carnegie Library. It is used to rivet railroad ties, tariff bills and watered stocks. In the form of ocean steamers it carries our girls and mone! across the water to rehabilitate the nobleman’s estate. In the form of rails it enables the enterprising Pullman porter to support his family in luxury. It removes appendixes and bank accounts with equal facility. It also holds up our principal naval officers while they entertain the best people of other countries. Steel lifted the Philippine saloon on to the same plane with the Hoffman House bar, and plunged George Dewey into ob- scurity. It enters into everything we use except our nerve, which is invariably cast iron. Shocking H, oh! This from the Courier-Journal :-— There has been “put on" in New York a musical comedy called “The Naked Truth,” and a dramatic critic says it is char- acterized by “pleasing new ditties.” Of course “ pleasing nudities * was meant. ADVICE TO YACHTSMEN ALWAYS HAVE YOUR FENDER HANDY. “ Bank clerks in Pittsburg have stolen $7,500,000 during the last three years."—News of the Day. SERIOUS LEAK. Seven millions and a half are quite a few, even in Pittsburg. Who knows what foreign SAID SILAS IN ACCENTS EMPHATIC, dukes have been forced to beg, or what epochal murders in MY LIMBS To a8 SURE ARE RUEUMATIC New York have been prevented by the diversion from its sor ce suancren: ay Gai! Proper channels of so great a sum? THAT THE LORD DIDN'T MAKE EM PNEUMATIC. comicbooks.com