Life, 1915-03-18 · page 8 of 40
Life — March 18, 1915 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"The Top o' the Mornin'!"** (top illustration) depicts a man encountering what appears to be Death or a skeletal figure on a path—likely mocking excessive coffee consumption and its supposed health effects. **"Stirring Up the Cabots"** discusses a Boston will case involving Major Cabot, commenting on the eccentric behavior of this prominent Brahmin family and their inheritance disputes. The piece suggests Cabot's actions, while unusual, were rational rather than genuinely crazy. **"Playing It Safe"** features dialogue between characters named Hokus and Pokus about someone named Fluhdub involved in "shady financial transactions," using a childhood anecdote as commentary on his slippery nature. **"Natural Supposition"** and its accompanying illustration show a domestic exchange about financial hardship and shabby dress. The page satirizes Boston society, financial impropriety, and eccentric wealthy families.
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Sodden with Efficiency A small cup of black coffee, with- out cream or sugar, sipped after the heavy meal of the day, perhaps will not seriously harm a person of robust constitution.—Edward Earl Purinton. efficiency expert, in. the Independent. N°: not fatally, “However, we do not believe in taking even this,” says the Independent's expert, and goes on to recommend four kinds of denatured coffee, doctored milk and grapejuice. It was the lawyer-humorist of Third Avenue who said as the Best Man in Town came into his club: comes Thomas Best, sodden virtue and without one redeeming vice.” Lord save you, Edward Purinton, ge = : Z / vl from becoming sodden with efficiency ! nt lial ye Pes : Aly, Being drowned in Malmsey is nothing ne . me Ve an to it. Struggle, poor victim, while you yu \ A can, and if you can acquire a redeem- S ing vice, oh, trot it out! “THE TOP 0’ THE MORNIN’ 1” Natural Supposition RS. CRABSHAW: You don't allow me half enough Stirring Up the Cabots money for clothes. : . * RAnSHAW: Is that the reas you go a i OSTON has an interesting will case. It seems that c sathat the weston you-go around: looking Major Cabot left his money to his grandchildren, N9!f dressed? share alike, instead of to his children. Consequently the families in which there were the most grandchildren got the most money. It was largely his wife’s money that was divided under his will, and one of his daughters, who had but one child, is suing to break the will. Major Cabot seems to have been pretty well gone in the nerves, and was eccentric in deportment. The will- breakers contend that he was crazy. The defense, it seems, will maintain that he was not crazy, but merely Cabot, and that his behavior, taken in consideration with the average behavior of Cabots, was not so eccentric as to warrant the rejection of his will. The Cabots are a mighty family, the mightiest, some people think, in all Boston. Henry Cabot Lodge is one of them. The revelation of Cabot characteristics by sworn testimony is awaited in Boston with smiles and lively interest, There seems to be trying times ahead for the Cabots, but they are a hardy family with a great record and can stand. anything. Playing It Safe . OKUS: Flubdub has been mixed up in a lot of shady financial transactions, and yet he is never caught Poxus: That's just like Flubdub. [remember when we were boys and a tin can was to he tied to a dog's tail, Flubdub was always the fellow who held the dog. “FIRST Alb TO THE INJURED"