Life, 1911-03-16 · page 7 of 44
Life — March 16, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The illustration titled "The Wearing of the Green" depicts a street scene with figures in period dress, though its specific satirical target is unclear from the image alone. The text below contains two distinct pieces: 1. **"Differential Calculus"** - A brief satirical poem mocking a Chicago man who criticizes the school system while remaining ignorant himself. The satire targets hypocrisy: he wants better education for children but is uneducated himself. 2. **"Holiday Coming to Texas"** - A brief news item about an annual public holiday and a railroad controversy, mentioning actress Nat Goodwin's marriage to Lillian Russell. The page appears to mix illustration, humorous verse, and news snippets—typical Life magazine content blending social commentary with gossip.
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LULL IATA EDERAL LED TUDE EED IT 1 Differential Calculus ‘HIS little wife went to Reno, That little wife sued here, This little wife got the children, And twenty-five thousand a year. School MAN in Chicago—who has had the effrontery to criticise our school system—says that although his boy has been through the high school, he can neither read nor write; and that the only thing that he can do is to make a large toy elephant. The boy can make one of these elephants, however, almost every day—when he happens to be in good condition. This man thinks that our children should go to school for the purpose of “THE WEARING OF THE GREEN acquiring an education, and that reading and writing are useful accomplishments, which ought even at this late day to be encouraged. We shouldn't mention this little mat- ter if the man hailed from anywhere except Chicago; but any man who lives in Chicago ought to be more up to date than this. We expect better things from him, The idea that our children, by going to school, should learn to read and write was at one time a common notion, and was held by respectable people who were otherwise a credit to the community. That it is still persisted in by a man from Chicago only shows that this is the strangest country in the world, in which all sorts of abnormalities are constantly cropping up. Holiday Coming to Texas ONFIRMATION is lacking as yet of the assertion that Texas will make an annual public holiday of the anni- versary of the retirement of the Goulds from the control of the Missouri Pacific Railway. They insist in Texas that their anti- railroad laws have all, or nearly all, been framed to cope with the chronic indispo- sition of inability of the Gould roads to provide reasonably efficient service “I "VE got a great story,” says the new eporter, “You have “What is it?” “The only actress who never married Nat Goodwin is engaged to the only man who never married Lillian Russell.” * growls the city editor. comicbooks.com