Life, 1910-03-10 · page 23 of 36
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The page contains two distinct satirical elements: **Top Cartoon:** A social comedy about class and infidelity. A wealthy man ("Old Pinchpenny") has hired a new chauffeur. His young wife elopes with the chauffeur after only nine days—the caption's joke being that we don't know what caused the *delay* in her leaving. The satire mocks both the elderly miser with a young wife and the predictable outcome of such May-December marriages among the wealthy. **Bottom Section:** "Apotheosis of the Bridge Fiend" shows playing cards transformed into female figures, satirizing women's obsession with the card game bridge, which was enormously popular in early 20th-century society. The progression suggests bridge addiction consuming women entirely. **Text Block:** A sardonic observation that beggars and wealthy idlers who don't work are in the same class—both live without labor. This reflects Progressive Era critique of inherited wealth and leisure. The surrounding text lists contemporary book reviews, typical of Life's literary criticism features.
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THEY MAD THE NEW CHAUFFEUR ABOUT NINE DAYS WHEN OLD PINCHPENNY’S YOUNG WIFE ELOPED WITH HIM. IT KNOWN WHAT CAUSED THE DELAY The Blue Bird, by Maurice Maeterlinck. A dramatized fairy le, written in prose by a poet, for children’ and others ¢ Bride of the Mistletoe, by James Lane Allen. Pedantic pes simism by a scared optimist. George Bernard Shaw, by G. K. Chesterton. Mluminative ana lytical criticism, The Haven, by 0 Phillpotts, Another story of Devon; of technical 4 an interest The Hungry Heart, by David Graham Phillips. Sentiment versus sex. A plain tale from the West. It Never Con Happen gain, by William De Morgan. An ample opportunity of most enjoyably hobnobbing with a delightful writer over a negligible story John Marvel, Assistant, by Thomas Nelson Page. A story of to day from the standpoint of day-before-vesterday. Margarita’s Soul, by Josephine Daskam Bacon, A romance of Fn Eden, by Jack London. A graphic bit of intellectual auto: biography introduced into ‘a crude fictio The New World, by Allen Upward. recent years. Notice later. The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Rennett. A novel of excep nterest y Maurice Hewlett. The hero of Half Way jer adventure. A captivating story. Penguin Istand, by Anatole France. A witty and satirical parody on the history of France. The Saag of Songs, by Hermann Sudermann, Symbolic realism. A terrible and unflinching study of a well-meaning weakling. The Tower of Ivory, by Gertrude Atherton. ove. 1 Ida, by A. C. Quiller Couch. The amusing adventures of The ablest dialectic work of HERE are two kinds of people who are content to live without working—beggars and those who can't realize that doing the same thing on a large scale puts them in the same class. OOLS rush in (to the stock market) where want them to tread. APOTHEOSIS OF THE BRIDGE FIEND 1s NOT wise men comicbooks.com