Life, 1908-11-26 · page 11 of 24
Life — November 26, 1908 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents satirical cartoons and commentary on human nature and social behavior. The top cartoon depicts "Fear" as a dark, looming force pursuing a small figure—illustrating Voltaire's quote that "fear follows crime and is its punishment." Another cartoon shows a cow being milked with the caption attributing to Josh Billings: "Human nature is like cow nature; I have known them both few give a good mess of milk and then kick it over." The "Long Established Custom" panel criticizes men's resistance to change, quoting Carlyle. The final cartoon shows a silhouette gesturing toward a framed picture, with a Thackeray quote about death and "revisiting" the living world. A brief article titled "Another Deflection" comments on women's declining courtesy in San Francisco streetcars compared to the South.
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BY NATURE HE (MAN) HATES CHANGE; SELDOM WILL ME QUIT HIS OLD HOME ‘TILL IT HAS ACTUALLY FALLEN ABOUT HIS Ears.”’—Carlyle, vf what is going to happen, that the probability is we will come to some tame end, without any occasion even for his- tories to be written about us afterwards. Gibbon, indeed, was in great luck to come in just where he did. The probability is that he never would have had another chance like that. Another Deflection Women have to stand much more often than they used to in the San Francisco street cars.—Argonaut, HIS is sad news. As a rule, the larger the city the worse the manners. The South still maintains its courtesy “WUMAN NATUR IS LIKE COW NATUR; I HAV KNOWN THEM ROTH TEW GIV'A GOOD MESS OV MILK AND THEN KICK IT OVER.”” —Josh Billings “COULD THE a iT OF US WHO DEPART FROM THE EARTH HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY OF REVISITING IT 1 SUPPOSE ME OR SHE WOULD HAVE A PANG OF MORTIFICATION AT FINDING HOW SOON OUR SURVIVORS WERE CONSOLED.”—Thackeray. fairly well. All through the South men get up to give their seats to women, as a matter of course. That the line of the common herd has reached San Francisco is to be deplored. Even with New York as bad as it is, with the extreme West and South still holding out, there was good hope that we were not becoming altogether a graccless people. comicbooks.com