Life, 1910-11-10 · page 27 of 44
Life — November 10, 1910 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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**Top Illustration:** A silhouette strip showing people returning from a horse show in various vehicles—a satirical commentary on the spectacle and pretension of the event. **"Honors for King George":** This article satirizes Boston's Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company sending representatives to London to inform the new King (appears to be George V, based on context) that he's been elected to their organization. The satire mocks the absurdity: a provincial American military club treating a reigning monarch as if granting *him* an honor, while expecting he'll reciprocate with prestigious awards like the Order of the Garter. The piece ridicules the pretentiousness of this "high-class vintage" organization, which the text suggests prioritizes "food, drink and glory" over substance. **"Correct Dress":** A brief quip about Fifth Avenue fashion, suggesting women should dress appropriately "from infancy to interment." **Bottom Illustration:** A domestic scene where a husband, trying to get twins to sleep, philosophizes to his wife about fate—a gentle humor about parenthood and coincidence.
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COMING BACK FROM THE WORSE SHOW. Honors for King George OLONEL SID. HEDGES, Captain Nichols and Lieutenant Appleton have gone to London to tell the new King that he has been elected a member of the Ancient and Honor: able Artillery Company of Boston. It is expected that the King will hand out something very handsome to Colonel Sid.—possibly the ribbon of the Garter, for it is not becoming to Kings to get something for nothing. and membership in the Ancients is a distinction of a very high-class vintage. In a world of which all moralists complain that it is giver over to materialism, the Ancients stand out as an organiza tion devoted to the higher aims, including food, drink and glory. The decoration of hfe is its province, and it does it regardless of expense. Fortunate King George to share the ennobling influences of such an association! Thrice fortu nate Boston to be the home of such a company! Cornect Deess reos Tyraxcy to Matexity Fifth Avenue Sign UT why stop at maturity? Make it—" Infaney to Inter ment.” ANGNS MAL DONALL # AU Husband (as he and his wife try to get the twins to sleep): ISAvEL, MAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO YOU THAT IP IT HADN'T B FOR THE MEREST ACCIDENT, YOU AND 1 WOULD NEVER HAVE MET?