Life, 1910-03-03 · page 50 of 80
Life — March 3, 1910 — page 50: what you’re looking at
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This page features a poem-cartoon satirizing advice given to farmers to remain in agricultural work, despite urban opportunities. The central illustration shows a scarecrow figure surrounded by animals—a visual metaphor for rural life's limitations. The satire targets multiple authority figures (the President, railroad king, clergyman, doctor) all telling farmers' sons to "stick to the farm," yet each figure themselves abandons rural life for city comforts: the President returns to his "White House home," the railroad man to his "private car," the clergyman to hear "a city church," the doctor to practice surgery in towns. The joke is the hypocrisy: those in power advocate agrarian virtue while personally enjoying urban benefits. The accompanying shorter jokes on the right—about Chicago wheat, Baltimore affection, and hotel accommodations—continue this theme of gap between public advice and private reality. The page also includes period advertisements for Brewster & Co. automobiles and Delaunay-Belleville cars, reflecting early 20th-century commercial culture.
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