Life, 1913-02-27 · page 26 of 40
Life — February 27, 1913 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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**"The Hungry Pack"** cartoon depicts a wealthy woman traveling by sleigh with her small Pomeranian dog through snowy wilderness, accompanied by what appear to be wolves or hungry dogs pursuing them—hence the title. The accompanying article satirizes newspaper outrage over a lady spending $600 to transport her three-pound dog across the continent in luxury. The author argues this criticism is hypocritical: wealthy parents lavishly indulge their "worthless sons and daughters," spending far greater sums on their idle consumption of cigarettes and loose companions, yet society papers celebrate rather than condemn this. The satire suggests selective moral judgment—the public accepts human excess while condemning similar extravagance toward animals. **"An Old Hand"** is a brief joke about an apartment building janitor so inexperienced (or deliberately destructive) that within an hour he's disabled all the communication systems—the bells and speaking tubes connecting residents to staff. The page also includes a visual rebus puzzle for readers to solve.
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“THE HUNGRY PACK” Dogs and Human Beings HE newspapers recently took a great deal of satisfac- tion in describing minutely the pampered journey of a Pomeranian dog, who was shipped across the continent in a private car at an approximate cost of six hundred dollars. The dog weighed three pounds and four ounces, and the unmistakable inference intended was that the lady who owned him was guilty of something extremely repre- hensible in thus guarding him in so much luxury from the too close companionship of the common people. Why should it seem so singular that a lady should take so much trouble about a perfectly good dog, who prob- ably has a kind disposition and no bad habits, when so many other women go to so much more trouble and ex- \ y aN \wwe, i WS pense about their worthless sons and daughters? We have known millionaires to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars upon a boy simply for the sake of perfecting him in the consumption of cigarettes and loose com- panions, and no mention of it has been made in the papers, not even in the society columns. An Old Hand WNER OF APARTMENT HOUSE janitor experienced? Acent: You bet he is! He wasn’t on tke job half an hour before all the bells and speaking tubes were out of commission. Is the new CAN YOU READ THIS REBUS? (The correct answer will appear in next week's Lire.) comicbooks.com