Life, 1910-01-13 · page 7 of 36
Life — January 13, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This satirical cartoon depicts a social scene centered on "The Pay-as-you-Enter Cars" — a new public transportation system. The illustration shows well-dressed men in formal attire surrounding a seated woman, with a dog in the foreground. The accompanying articles mock this transportation innovation and social conventions of the era. "The Pay-as-you-Enter Cars Are Tip-Top" discusses how these cars improved conductor efficiency by collecting fares during boarding rather than after. "Don't Belittle Women" and "I Never Sausage a Dog" appear to be humorous advice columns addressing contemporary social etiquette. The satire appears to ridicule both the transportation system's practical benefits and society's formal pretensions during this period.
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1 stored ams of | Horde ing sl y mitten tack, slave vin bia beauty! ide woe t le, after. urn Imon tum, merely ght zl dertake, ach Nature The Pay-as-you-Enter Cars Are Tip-Top Mr. Whitridge said he thought © much of the pay-as-you-enter cars that he had bought 375 of them since the type was tried on the first Third A m.—Daily paper. HEY ; vastly better than the old style cars for the pco- ple who ride in them, as well as for the corporations that furnish them. They catch all the fares, which is right They do away with constant progresses of the conductor through crowded cars, which is a great relief. They make for order, sense and better manners. They do away with the nuisance of smokers THE JEBB FAMILY ONE OF UNCLE DAVID’S AMUSING ANECDOTES on the platforms and give the companies a better chance to exclude lighted cigars and cigarettes from the cars altogether. Publish it to the world that rides in street cars that the pay-as-you-enter cars are a great boon to mankind, and a re- markable mitigation of the sufferings of city populations. Don't Belittle Worea Miss Rose Schneidermann, the little wom: 9 is leading the striking shirtwaist, etc., The Times, Dec. 20. EAR Neighbor: How tall is Rose. and how much does she weigh? Is she really undersized as women go, or is it merely that your young man who writes up the shirtwaist war chooses to cr so? 1 you, as the publisher of a week! practice of speaking of women of aver: size as little! It is done so much th from the passage quoted above ene can form ro surmise as to whether Rose weighs under a hundred-weight, or is r than five feet, or whether the man merely thinks it is nice to describe her as “the little woman.” It’s the ‘I NEVER sau-sage a dog. wurst. comicbooks.com