Life, 1909-10-28 · page 10 of 36
Life — October 28, 1909 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"Grandfather's Ghost"** (top): An illustration showing a car with passengers encountering a ghostly figure. The caption suggests commentary on automotive costs and reckless spending—the "ghost" likely represents wasted money or financial consequences. 2. **"Unaware"** (right column): Editorial commentary criticizing newspaper readers who remain ignorant of media manipulation regarding political matters (possibly Rhode Island politics, based on the text mentioning "Rhode Island"). 3. **"Considerate," "Next Time!," and "Politeness"** (lower sections): Brief satirical pieces on social behavior and national honor. 4. **"Horses Sometimes See Spooks"** (bottom): A humorous illustration showing a horse startled by a toy car, the joke being animals' irrational fears. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns about automobiles, media literacy, and social propriety.
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Grandfather's Ghost: Gos! ME AND MANDY Considerate EARY says that he “is striving to avert a national disgrace.”’ Suppose we should turn the national honor over to him for safe keeping, and suppose he should prove unfaithful or in- competent, what would become of us? The national honor would be lost and gone forever, like Clementine, and we should wish we had left it where it was. This view is on the theory, of course, that we have a great deal of national dis- grace to avert. On the other hand it is a serious ques- tion whether we have not had so many national disgraces in the past that an- other one, concerning so “remote and in accessible a matter as the North Pole, would hardly be worth taking the pains to avert, especially when it involves such an intricate question as the supremacy, one over the other, of two New York newspapers. Next Time ! HE next man to go to the pole will take along a notary and seal; yes, even though he has to leave them there. This getting home with puncturable documents is not good business. OLIT. SS to superiors is syco- phaney; to peers, superfuity; 10 inferiors, nobility. HOKSES SOMETIMES SEE SPOOKS WORKED HARD FOR THE MONEY THAT THING Cost Unaware F the plain people don't know they've been betrayed it’s their own fault. They spend all their time reading the murders on the first page and don’t get in where the edi- torials are. And if they knew, there probably wouldn’t be anything done about it, party spirit be ing what it is. That's what parties are for. to keep. the masses to their proper économic function of pulling chestnuts from the fire for the peliticians and their friends. By their instrumen tality it becomes possible to fool enough of the people enough of the time so that a tariff by Rhode Island and for Rhode Island need not perish from the earth. R.B. ‘O" Jimmie, do you t'ink I can ever go before de foot-lights? '* “Yes, if you go before de Israclites."" comicbooks.com