Life, 1915-02-04 · page 17 of 44

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Life — February 4, 1915 — page 17: Life, 1915-02-04

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This cartoon appears from Life magazine's satirical section. It depicts a fortune teller or mystic (left) reading the palm of a reclining military officer (right), with the caption predicting a "long journey" in 1915. The setting—decorated with occult imagery (owls, mysterious objects)—satirizes fortune-telling practices. The joke likely references World War I, which was raging in Europe in 1915. The "long journey" is a euphemistic prediction of military deployment or combat abroad. The cartoon mocks both the superstitious belief in fortune-telling and, implicitly, anxieties about American involvement in the Great War—a major contemporary concern in 1915 before formal U.S. entry in 1917.

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