Life, 1910-05-05 · page 29 of 72
Life — May 5, 1910 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. The main poem, "Teddy Boy Blue" (after Eugene Field), uses a nursery-rhyme style to mock Roosevelt's absence from domestic politics. The "little Joe Cannon" and "G.O.P. elephant" represent Republican leadership left behind while Roosevelt pursued his "strenuous" activities—likely referring to his conservation efforts and imperialist foreign adventures ("jungle bed"). The satire suggests Roosevelt neglected party machinery and left Republican institutions neglected and weakened. The three shorter items below mock contemporary social issues: female servants' domestic situations, college girls' political views, and Roosevelt's famous "luck" in avoiding danger. The "Fisherman's Luck" cartoon depicts working-class men discussing pay disputes.
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Teddy Boy Blue APTER EUGENE FIELD HE little Joe Cannon is covered with dust ; But sturdy and stanch he stands. The G. O. P. elephant, red with rust, Is battered with ruthless hands. Time was when the little “czar” Can non could do, And the clephant passing fair, And that was the time that Teddy knew He could leave them safely there. “ Now you be good till I come," he said, nd, ‘ Billy,’ don’t make any nois: And sailing away to the jungle bed He deamt of his nice little toys— And as he was dreaming a horrid song Awakened our Teddy Boy Blue— Oh, the year was strenuous, the year was long, For the little toy friends so truc. And longing for Teddy they anxiously stand, h in his trembling place, Awaiting the club of his strong right hand, The vicious smile of his face— And they wonder as waiting the long days through In the dust of their turmoil and care, What in the world will their Teddy do With his toys once so nice and so fair. W. P. Wilson. 'HE man who is too busy at his work to ask for more pay usually gets it, mY bet ay Manne > | * PISIUPRMAN'S LUC ONE RESULT —SSSS—$—S! — =m oF THE rURSUIT Well Provided For ENEVOLENT LADY (to show girl): And, dear child, have you no home? Snowcirt: Yes, indeed. My father and mother have both married again, and I am welcome at either place. OF WEALTIT Anti-Suffrage Collegette HERE are rumors of an anti-suffrage league to be started among the col- lege girls. Sounds like rather a good plan. So far all the college girls seem to be suffragists, but that may be be cause only that side of the question has been organized. Parents who are not yet enthusiastic about votes for women have observed with some uneasiness that apparently they can't send their girls to college without making suff them. If it is going to be feasible for college girls to be anti-suffragists such parents might like to know Luck ! usual Juck escaped all Liter “Having with the perils of darkest Africa.”—Curr ature, ON’'T talk about his luck it is out of date. For all of us For- tune shuffles the cards and we get what we get. He has had some remarkable hands dealt to him, but long since public interest in the cards he held was rerged into interest in the way he played them HO'LL have jurisdiction over air, ships?" “Why, the highway commissioner.’* comicbooks.com