Life, 1911-05-18 · page 25 of 42
Life — May 18, 1911 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "The Traveler Asks the Way to Heaven"** The illustration shows a group of well-dressed men in top hats gesturing broadly—appearing to give conflicting directions. The satire targets American political/social elites offering contradictory moral or philosophical guidance. The joke suggests that even authorities cannot agree on the "right path." **"How To Fix It" Section** This satirizes a contemporary scandal: congressmen proposed for the exclusive Metropolitan Club in Washington were rejected for membership, likely due to class or social barriers. The author sardonically proposes amending the Constitution to automatically grant Congress members club membership, mocking both the absurdity of solving social problems through constitutional amendments (which were "popular now") and the pretentiousness of excluding elected officials from elite establishments. **Philosophical Quotes** Two brief witticisms comment on pleasure, pain, and success—typical Life magazine filler emphasizing that winning matters regardless of birthright. **"A Windfall" Illustration** Shows a woman discovering a fallen figure—likely depicting sudden, unexpected fortune or misfortune.
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+The Comtessa’s Sister, by Gardner Teall, suany little story of Capri The Gold Brick, by Brand Whitlock. See preceding page. i The Grain of Dust, by David Graham Phil. lips. See preceding page. The Great Illusion, by Norman Angell. A timely and able review of the peace and dis- armament controversy The History of the Telephone, by Merbert N. Casson. ‘The interesting story of a mod: ern miracle, Love's Pilgrimage, by Uvton Sinclair, A ri of autobiographical indiscretions half-digested enthusiasms fe—Smith, by Caroline Lockhart. A re. freshingly observed and crisply told tale of the still wild West Molly Make-Believe, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. “A far-fetched story brought close home and filled with fun and fancy The Patrician, by John Galsworthy. A fine piece of work in which we see the guard ‘of the cld order at bay before modernity. Twenty Years at Hull House, by Jane Ad- dams. Personal reminiscence and ‘comment that throw interesting sidelights on a cele- brated institution and its founder Two on the Troil, by Hulbert Footner. A tale of tenderfoot knight errantry in’ the Canadian Northwest. How To Fix It HE papers relate in tones more or less shocked that the names of a Representative in Congress and a Sen- ator who were proposed for member- ship in the Metropolitan Club in Wash- ington have been withdrawn. That is temporarily troublesome. It is always troublesome when it happens, and it has happened before. But it can be fixed. Amendments to the Constitution are popular now. Amend it, then, so that members of Congress shall be members of the Metropolitan Club ex-officio. If this is done merely by act of Congr of course the courts might block it, but if it is done by Constitutional provision there ought not to be further trouble. PHILOSOPHER says that ‘ Pain is but the product of pleasure.’” “Ah, yes! But too often it’s our p: and someone else’s pleasure.” Ay, There’s the Rub F you are made the stuff that wins —it does not matter whether you are born in a hovel or a mansion, will find your opportunity, or make i says Orison Swett Marsden In other words, if you win, you win. T ascetics from little libertines grow, in “Vase Goole A WINDFALL comicbooks.com