Life, 1910-03-31 · page 15 of 46
Life — March 31, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**"The Joy Riders"** (top cartoon): Depicts reckless young people in a car careening dangerously, likely commentary on the new phenomenon of automobile "joy riding"—a form of recreational driving that became associated with rowdy youth behavior and traffic dangers in the early 20th century. **"Wall Street"** (middle): Criticizes Wall Street financiers as overly sensitive and reactive to news events, causing market volatility. The piece argues they should exercise "calm self-control" rather than panicking at every development, portraying them as emotionally unstable rather than rational stewards of capital. **"American Into French"**: A language humor piece playing on mistranslation. **"The Lower Mathematics"**: A playful math puzzle about calculating egg production. **"The Black Rose"**: A joke contrasting a florist's claim that black roses are rare with a Pittsburgher's dismissal—industrial Pittsburgh apparently produces black roses (through pollution/soot) naturally.
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THE JOY RIDERS which it is a part and an expression.’’ Perhaps the pith of the miatier lies there or thereabouts. If Princeton and Yale and Harvard and any other colleges you like are, as they stand, the true expression of the society on which they rest, radical changes will be hard to introduce into them. But in so far as they have got out of sympathy and touch with the great American world they live in, they are doubtless all in for a good deal of readjustment At Princeton that readjustment has suddenly butted in asa fighting issue, that's all, There is nobody in the country ter qualified to make the fight for it than President Wilson ELS. M. Wall Street OR the sake of a brief argument it may be admitted that the band of gentlemen who compose Wall Street have been accused of many things unjustly, but one thing cannot be gz Wall Street is too touchy. It is too sensitive by considerably more than half. It is too easily influenced by current events. We have almost reached the pass where we are afraid 10 have current events at all. We can't turn around without a demonstration on the stock exchange. If the President takes a long breath some bull plays china shop and out come the newspapers with extra Wall Street should cultivate a spirit of repose, a spirit of calm self-control, which is the highest form of human power. Ellis O. Jones. American Into French L*Y (at railway restaurant): Dépéchez, garcon, ou je serai gauche derriére. The Lower Mathematics a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, what is the earning capacity of a poultry-3 pressed in terms of chantecler hats? THE BLACK ROSE Florist: SOMETHING NEW AND VERY RARE—A BLACK ROSE! Pittsburger: pswaw! We MAVE MAD THEM IN MY TowN FOR YEARS. comicbooks.com