Overdoing Things: the Tendency of the Day (1896)

When excess is never enough

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Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting the tendency of Americans to overdo everything. Captions include:

Left:
We are overdoing the arctic exploration business.
Lots of married women folks are getting our overdoing the elevation in advancement idea.

Center:
Would-be fashionables are overdoing it terribly and trying to have large receptions and small houses.

Right:
We are overdoing the Bicycle Boom.
Proud parents in public schools are overdoing the Forcing Process with our children's education.

Bottom:
A few random examples of the general tendency towards overdoing things: Overdoing fashions, Overdoing county fair exhibits, Overdoing high buildings, Overdoing Sunday editions, etc., etc

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Contributor Names: Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937, artist

Created / Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1896 January 15.

Source:  Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 984, (1896 January 15), centerfold.

Library of Congress: 2012648597