Life, 1919-04-10 · page 10 of 46
Life — April 10, 1919 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Titled "She Loves to Watch Company 'B' Go By," this illustration depicts a woman watching soldiers march past, with military buildings in the background. The cartoon satirizes women's romantic interest in soldiers and military spectacle during wartime. **"Poor Old China" Section:** This article criticizes Chinese poverty and child labor, presenting a condescending Western perspective on conditions in Hinghwa, China. It describes impoverished children and suggests Christian missionary intervention as the solution—reflecting the paternalistic attitudes of early 20th-century American imperialism. **"Joke" Section:** A humorous anecdote about mankind's three gifts (speech, letters, fire), concluding that man's greatest achievement was using these gifts to "distinguish me from the beasts!"—a commentary on human vanity. **Bottom Illustration:** A sketch of dogs, captioned with a postmaster joke.
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HN Poor Old China! YS Mrs. W. N. Brewster, head of the Methodist Epis- copal orphanage in Hinghwa, Ching Baby peddlers go through the streets, erying their wares, with the children in baskets hanging from their shoulders Two dollars is the usual price. This shows how backward our Chinese brothers really are. They should come to America, journey through our slums, and inspect our child-labor factories, and learn the genuine Christian art of exploiting the young. Joke "PRE gifts of the gods to man were three in number, namely, speech, letters and fire. “ Speech,” they chuckled, behind his back, “in order that he may say what he shouldn't; letters, in order that he may read what will do him more harm than good; fire, in order that he may expand the art of cookery and dig his grave with his teeth.” But the best of the joke was the way man took these gifts. He deemed them very precious. “They distinguish me from the beasts!” he boasted. Tay) RS hy)” epic’ Old Dog: come BACK, HECTOR, 11'S POSTMASTER G. B., AND IF YOU RESCUE HIM EVERYBODY WILL THINK YOU ARE MAD