This Simplicissimus drawing of a scene from the upper middle class is titled “Unnecessary Provocation.” One of the women says, “It’s too bad that we still don’t have a zoological garden in Munich.” The man replies, “But that is fortunate, ladies. Why should the proletariat see how hygienically the animals there live and how rationally they are fed?” Poorly fed workers in dirty hovels might get upset. Source: Ferdinand von Rezniček, “Unnötige Aufreizung,” Simplicissimus, vol. 13, no. 12, June 22, 1908, p. 215, https://archive.org/details/simplicissimus-magazine/Simplicissimus.%20Year%2013/page/215/mode/1up.
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