Life, 1915-09-23 · page 11 of 48
Life — September 23, 1915 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon, captioned "Cheese It! The Trophy Collector!," depicts a large group of animals (appearing to be various beasts and creatures) gathered around what looks like trophies or hunted remains. This appears to be satirizing trophy hunting or collection practices, likely commenting on wealthy individuals who hunted exotic animals for sport and displayed their kills as status symbols—a common upper-class pastime of the early 20th century. The lower illustration, "The Absence of Apparel Off Proclaims the Man," shows several figures in minimal clothing on a beach. This likely satirizes changing social norms regarding swimwear and public decorum, possibly critiquing modern attitudes toward modesty or the emerging "modern woman" of the era who challenged traditional dress codes. Both pieces use visual humor to mock contemporary social pretensions and shifting cultural values.
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PS Toad and until there are roads legs are preferable. On the granite mountains that furnish a background to the four harbors legs are still current, and they are useful on the trails and wood- paths, but on the roads it will happen there as it has happened elsewhere. The horse in all his better phases is a property of aristocracy. The good, cheap motor car is the most democratic appliance of the age. It is democracy, and can no more be dammed than the tide. The automobile began as the luxury of the rich and speedily showed itself so surprisingly desirable that it had to be provided for the poor. In many of its habits it offends the rich; its misuse has appalling consequences ; in many particulars life has to be ad- justed to it, but it sweeps along lik fate, and barriers are vain against it. Sometimes—sometimes—it_ seems a little as if we inhabitants of the earth were the summer dwellers of the four harbors and the strange monster called German Kultur was the motor car. That remarkable machine goes unde- niably well on the road. And the cure of it proceeding with such terrific diligence is the cure by homeopathy. There is a great exchange of instruc- tion going on between Germany and the rest of mankind. Germany is try- ing to demonstrate that she has the cae ore “cHeese iT! THE TROPHY COLLECTOR!” best machine ever devised for carrying on the human race, What the rest of the world is trying to teach her is that she must obey the rules of the road, and in teaching her they are all being driven to adoption of her mechanism. What is going to happen? How much of her is going to rule the world, how much is going to die in the labor of bringing forth a new creation? E, S. Martin. And So There You Are! SHE had spent his money, ‘iad com- promised him more than once, had neglected her children and her household duties, and had done every- thing that woman can do to make his life a failure. And then, as they were both con- fronted by the miserable end of it all, and realized that there was no way out of it, he said: “Perhaps 1 ought not to appear to be too trivially curious, but I confess to a desire to know why you have done all this. You must have known, if you kept on, just what the end would be. Of course, nobody expects a woman to use her reason. But didn’t you have, even in a dim way, some idea of what you were doing?” She gazed at him with her usual defiance, a habit not to be broken even by the inevitable. “Certainly 1 fault.” “My fault! out? “Because I have never had slightest respect for you.” “Why not?” She actually laughed. “How could you expect me to have any respect for a man who could not succeed in preventing me from doing the things I did?” did It was your How do you make that the THE ABSENCE OF APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN comicbooks.com