Life, 1914-04-30 · page 42 of 44
Life — April 30, 1914 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily advertising for *Collier's* magazine, but the top section contains the satire. Travel writer **Julian Street** apparently purchased a lion while traveling, and Chicago newspapers reported the story. The *Life* satire suggests Street was a gullible outsider ("a stranger, a long way from home") whom reporters deliberately duped into buying the animal as a prank—playing on the stereotype of the naive Eastern visitor. The accompanying illustration by **Wallace Morgan** shows Street with the lion, presumably "discovering the United States" in his travel series. The joke's edge is that Street's travel stories, promoted as fresh and authentic American observation, may actually stem from embarrassing incidents where he was the mark of local trickery. The satire mocks both tourist credulity and the reliability of travel journalism.
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