Life, 1910-05-19 · page 26 of 40
Life — May 19, 1910 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page contains satirical poetry and brief comic items from the early 1900s. **"The Return of Tartarin"** (main cartoon) appears to mock colonial attitudes. Tartarin is a fictional French character known for tall tales and exaggeration. The poem depicts a European colonial figure ("in khaki drest / Bearing a Stick") who commands absolute authority over nature and wild animals simply through intimidation—the Nile itself "shrivels to a brook" at his presence. The satire targets the grandiose self-image of European colonizers who believed their mere presence subdued entire regions. **The brief jokes below** mock everyday subjects: a young surgeon whose patient survives only "nearly twenty hours," and a trust magnate worried that American farmers' prosperity might escape his exploitation. These are typical period humor—cynical about business and professional incompetence. The page is primarily advertising for Brewster & Co. automobiles, positioned as quality coach-builders.
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AUT SCISSORS AvT NuLLus The Return of Tartarin. Out of the East on wings of fire The simoon, with relentless ire, Howled through the waste, and where it passed All things bowed down beneath the blast That shook destruction from its crest; And then—came one in khaki drest Bearing a Stick, and at his frown It quieted down. The tawny monarch left his lair, And with blazing eyeballs sniffed the air, Shook his vast mane, and at the world In thunder tones defiance hurled; When through the growing shades of night He saw a Stick leap into sight, And prescient of the awful whack He shuddered and went back. The rivers rush from gorge and dell The Nile’s majestic flood to swell, That ceascless through old Egypt's length Rolls onward with resistless strength At least it rolled until one day The Cloud Compelier came that way 3 salons GENIUS—A CAPACITY FOR TAKING INFINITE. PAINS, Shaking a Stick, and at his look It shriveled to a brook. The wide earth bends beneath his tread Nor man nor beast dares lift his head. The dictionary pales and quakes, ‘The alphabet in terror shakes, The sinful nature faker squirms Beneath his heel—so now, ye worms, Back to your holes, no more to roam- He’s coming home. —Baltimore Sun Making Progress. Wercter: How is your son, the young surgeon, getting on? Gavster: First rate. He's improv- ing every day. He recently operated on his tenth patient and the man lived for nearly twenty hours—Chicago News. The Commander-in-Chief, “ What distinguished foreigner assisted the colonies in the American Revolu- tion? '’ asked an Ohio teacher. “God,!" answered Tommy. promptly. Everybody's. “Wuat makes the trust magnate look so worried?" “He has just read that the American farmer is very prosperous, and he feels that he must have overlooked some- thing.’"—Houston Post. Lurn is published every England, Acrxrs. Drea o's 3 Ave, de Ope day, simaltanconsty in the United Statea, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Single current copies, 10 cents, Hack numbers, after thre? Paris; 1, ayn Milan; Mayence, Germany. The text and dinstrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights m Great Britainathy te Lirt, 18 Southampton Rowe, London, W. be sent by subscribers of any change of address, No contritation wilt be returned wnless accompanied by stamped and addresed envelope. Lire does not hald iteelf aA rgcpored for the loxs or non-return of unsolicited contributions, Lire is for sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain, ‘The International News Company, Breams EWSTER & C Browdway and 4] +h. Street, N ow York Delaunay-Belleville Licensed under Selden Patent ecial bodies for any Chassis. epairs to body or motor. Peerless Cars with our exclusive Coach work by special arrange- ment with the Peerless Motor Car Co. Ilustrations show a new design Brewster body on Delaunay-Belleville Chassis, open and closed. comicbooks.com