Life, 1910-07-21 · page 18 of 40
Life — July 21, 1910 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon (top left):** A thin, bedraggled figure representing the restaurant industry flees from a pursuing dog labeled "Vegetarian Restaurant." The caption reads: "Don't be afraid, mister, I won't follow you any more. I see that isn't my kind of restaurant." This satirizes the vegetarian restaurant movement as a threat to traditional dining establishments. **"Stocks, Bonds and Autos" article:** Mocks Wall Street's complaint about poor bond sales. The satire points out that Americans are spending enormous sums ($1.8 billion) on automobiles instead of investing in bonds—and that brokers themselves are buying autos, depleting the money customers might invest. It's a commentary on competing consumer desires and wealth priorities during the automobile boom era. **"Crullers" poem:** A nostalgic tribute to old-fashioned fried pastries versus modern upscale dining, reflecting period tensions between traditional and contemporary tastes. **"Golden Rule" piece:** Social commentary suggesting nations should apply the Golden Rule internationally (specifically critiquing British rule in Egypt and American rule in the Philippines). The page balances light humor with pointed social criticism.
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“DON’T BE AFRAID, MISTER, 1 WON'T FOLLOW YOU ANY MORE. LVRE Stocks, Bonds and Autos Wt STREET wails because of the faint appetite for railroad bonds among investors. Why should folks buy bonds when there are so many other articles clamor- ing to be purchased? You can get sev- cral bonds for the price of an automo- bile, and several more for the cost of running an automobile for a year. The American investment in autos is now estimated to be $1,800,000,000.00. That may be one reason why bonds are not more popular. How much money are the moving pic- ture shows taking in? How much has the high cost of liv- ing cut into the savin habit? There are many more reasons than Government regula- tions for the reluc- tances of the bond 1 SEE THAT ISN'T MY KIND OF RESTAURANT."" market, Crullers And as for stocks, it is to smile a lit- tle at the stock- HEN I'm sitting in the glitter of an up-to-date café brokers. “Come With a lobster 2 Ja Newburg on my plate, buy, come buy!’* My faney oft goes roaming to a world beyond Broadway, they cry; “we Where nine o'clock at night's considered late. must have your I see a cosy kitchen, and I smell the boiling lard, And I watch the dough cut into floury strips, And twisted into figures that to make look very hard, Ere cach into the bubbling caldron flips. My mouth begins to water as they bob around the pot, And acquire a shade of brown exactly right, Till they're lifted out unbroken to the pan, all smoking hot, And ready for an epicure’s delight. O! ambrosia and nectar, and the wine of honey-dew, All fabled more or less in classic story, Are not in it for a minute with the cake my childhood knew, old-fashioned cruller in its Minna Irving. UEST: Where's Mrs. Frost to- night? Hostess: Oh, she's at home, trying to hush things up. “ Husband, scandal, or children?" money. Our expenses are ‘high: our autos cost like sixty!'’ Is it possible that the faithless lambs are blowing in cn autos of their own the money that the good broker-gentlemen need so much for their autos? When there is not moncy enough for autos for both brokers and customers the brokers, of course, should have what there is, It is an extraordinary joke on them if the irresistible auto is filching away their customers’ money before they can get hands on it. URRY is Speed plus Worry; Worry is Thought in a flurry. Extend the Golden Rule HE Golden Rule among individuals is now practically established. That we were wise, just and beneficent in incorporating it into our unwritten law is disputed only by such casual thinkers as Pernard Shaw, Frederick Nietsche and the like. We should now turn our attention to establishing the Golden Rule in a large national way. So rule your dependents as ye would that they should rule. The assistance of Congress would likely be needed to bring this about, but if such a bill were passed, England's rule in Egypt and our rule in the Philippines would be greatly simplified. MOST SURPRISING WHAT THOSE TWO SEE IN EACH OTHER! comicbooks.com