Life, 1911-12-21 · page 7 of 44
Life — December 21, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces: **"Our Mayor is a Bully Speaker"** praises an unnamed mayor for his oratorical skills and character, noting he would never run for higher office despite being qualified. **"Much Obliged, Colonel"** references Colonel Roosevelt's new political grouping. It jokes that various political factions (Democrats, Republicans, Progressives, Socialists, Prohibitionists, and Rural Tories) all claim Roosevelt agrees with them, though he considers Progressives and Rural Tories "moss-backs" who merely *hope* he agrees. **"His Education is Proceeding"** notes a Gackwar of Somewhere (likely fictional) returned from America with an automobile, impressing him more than a Yale football game would have. The bottom illustration, "To Home Builders: The Final Decoration," shows a couple and child at a fireplace mantel—likely satirizing interior decoration trends or domestic life.
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Our Mayor is a Bully Speaker T was lately in the paper that Mayor Gaynor would never run again for any office. Perhaps so, perhaps not, but if the Mayor does retire from pub- lic life and reject all candidacies, it is to hope that he will set up as a writer. He has well fulfilled Mr. Edward M. Shepard’s prophesy that there would never be a dull day in New York while he was Mayor. He has been in fine form this fall and has talked freely and made many speeches. Whatever he says is not only worth hearing, but worth reading. How wise a man our Mayor is, how sincere, how trust- worthy is matter of dispute, but there is no doubt at all that he is a man of talent, with a great gift of having in- teresting thoughts and putting them into fascinating, simple language. Much Obliged, Colonel OLONEL ROOSEVELT has de- fined a new group in_ politics. We now have Democrats, Republ ans, Progressives, Socialists, Prohibi- tionists and Rurat Torte: The Rural Tories think they are Progressives, but the Colonel says they are moss-backs, because they hope “ by TO HOME BUILDERS. THE FINAL DECORATION strengthening the anti-trust law, to restore business to the competitive conditions of the middle of the last century.” His Education 1s Proceeding HE papers report that the Gackwar of Somewhere, a Harvard under- graduate, returning with 2 friend from a visit out of town, fell out of his automobile on his head and wa much hurt he could not go to the Yale- Harvard football game. The Gaekwar’s Harvard education seems to be proceeding on the conven- tional lines. . so comicbooks.com