Life, 1909-08-19 · page 13 of 28
Life — August 19, 1909 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three editorial cartoons and accompanying text satirizing domestic life and social expectations. The leftmost cartoon ("He Went Too Far") depicts a young wife questioning her husband's trustworthiness during summer—a commentary on marital fidelity anxieties of the era. The center cartoon shows a man being evicted for making noise, labeled "NOISE"—likely satirizing urban living complaints and neighbor disputes in densely populated areas. The rightmost cartoon features burglars with large plates, captioned "Don't you think you'd wish an electric alarm would get—," mocking home security concerns among the wealthy and the false sense of safety such devices provide. The accompanying prose pieces ("Woman," "Orisons") offer satirical observations on gender roles, marriage dynamics, and economic anxiety during prosperity—suggesting these were written during a period of social transition and class consciousness.
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iF you ING THAT WAS FITTED THROUGH- WITH BURGLAK-ALARMS: Woman GO create To gladden her we had been LIVED NEAR A BUILD: A MUG out Koor— woman the world— With In gloominess hurled. She soothes us in sorrow ¢ shares in ov She shields us from troubles That fret and annoy. joy, She cheers as a daughter, She charms as a wife, And furnishes pictures For covers of Lire. He Went Too Far The young wife looked longingly up into the face of her husband, whose eyes held that troubled look that comes to a man when he begins to doubt f-— for the first time. It was their first parting; and as he gazed around him at the gay and bril- liant scene in the summer hotel and saw the well-dressed men glancing at the radiantly beautiful creature at his side, he heaved an involuntary sigh. Could she continue to be true to him “Darling,” he replied, “you do not know what this summer life you have never tasted its delights be- fore. Idly seeking for amusement, some fascinating stranger will be presented to you, and with him you will wander along the beach or sit on the piazza in the moonlight. Your obligations as a wife will fade before this delightful reality ; and especially, as you exchange sym- pathics with him, you will suddenly be- gin to realize that there is another world of fecling outside of what you have trust me, means— THAT GO OFF IF num A OTSE” A MAN LEANS INTO A WINDOW—OR A CAT TH hitherto experienced. Perhaps that other one will sound a new note of sympath and rel that I have not possessed for you. You wi gle in vain ag all the new vai love, all intimate ship strug nst the voice of duty and ances of an awakened fascinating because find harbor in your Ah, darling, you little the which come when you are away from me for a mo- the more will my temptations it is wrong, breast know will His wife looked at him ment in silence. Then she said; | “Dear, I guess I would better not stay here. I will go back to town with you.”” “Oh, no, darling, I do not { that; I merely want to warn you.”* ask But her voice was hard and cold as replied : No, dear, I shall go. J may be able to get along all right, but you talk altogether too well to be trusted alone for two weeks in a great city in summer time.”” Orisons ‘L us by all means pray for of prosperity," ex- claims one of the Great of Earth, “but let us pray, too, that there may be no return of that for spending which threatened to debauch all our best ideals! Yet what, forsooth ! but our whilom madness for spending lay at the bo:- tom of that prosperity which we all so long to behold the face of once more? Is there any separating the two, except rhetorically Already the forward prophets are be- ginning to say that thrift is not good business; that whatsoever a man earns he is in duty bound forthwith to spend, a return madness MNST THE MUILDING TOES ON PLURD Tele eee Sey DON'T THINK You'D wisit THE ALARMS WOULD GET you THe INVENTOR OF BURGLAR lest the trade st The simple life wise few currents of pate well for the At the who does very to live and crow over same time, he is no kills their prepa mean patriot himself eating delicacies which in ation give profitable employ- any hands—decorum est pro mori ment to patria ‘amaein | HOOT AWA! “AWM TELLIN’ A BONNIER-R MACSNUFFY tune!” “ vient DAE wi’ Rance! "? MON, MACTOSH 1S MAcsNuFFY ! EVEN KEEPIT T’ THE ve, PIPER-R THAN ANNA Mon, 11? WHAT HAS THE TUNE TO LOOK AT IS FENDOOR-R- comicbooks.com