Life, 1911-03-09 · page 7 of 44
Life — March 9, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical pieces mocking wealthy society and hypocrisy: **"Damning Evidence"** ridicules a wealthy lady who dismisses scandal from her daughter riding in a 1908-model automobile with a gentleman, claiming the car's age proves impropriety impossible. The joke: she's more concerned with appearing respectable than actual morality. **"If Our Fashions in Fur Continue to Advance on the Present Lines"** shows fashionably-dressed women who appear increasingly animal-like, satirizing excessive fur fashion trends. **"Spring Medicine"** and **"High Sense of Duty"** are brief satirical vignettes about canal inspections and farm visits—likely mocking upper-class tourism and performative civic interest. The overall theme: wealthy society's pretense, shallow values, and disconnect from reality.
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Damning Evidence “"M ADAME," says the agent of the black hand, “ we have a photograph of you and Count de Gayleigh riding in an automobile. Send ten thousand dollars to us or we will publish the picture.” “What care 1?" haughtily says the lady. “The Count is a gentleman in every way, and, besides, he is going to marry my daughter. There can be no scandal connected with my riding with him.” “That's not the point. It was a 1908-model car.” With a low moan, the unfortunate woman sank to the floor, after giving a feeble indication that on reviving from her faint she would write a check for tre hush money. EOPLE whose main interest is in money find it almost impossible to comprehend that other people are in- terested in anything else. DURING LENT His Majesty: “ neu YE ME TMK EARTH” Central; “ Busy!” Spring Medicine FAVORITE spring exercise this year is to run down and look at the Canal. It does the liver-saddened winter- workers good to inspect an honest job. Three hundred and sixty millions is all that Colonel Goethals intends to spend on that canal, and he asks for only about three years more time to build it in. Go early while the cuts are still a-cutting and the dams a-building. The show is not going to be open much longer! High Sense of Duty ITY VISITOR (to farmer): Do you keep good hens? If OUR FASHIONS IN FUR CONTINUE T9 ADVANCE ON THE Farmen: I should say I do. Some of them say “Now PRESENT LINES I lay me” twice a day. comicbooks.com