The Seven Deadly Sins

George S. Chappell

Moral Prints, in the Antique Mode, Revealing Man's Pet Proclivities.

LAZINESS

AMONG the favorite faults of man Sweet Laziness ranks high.

It gives one so much time to plan Great deeds, for bye-and-bye.

ENVY

ENVY, when all is said and done Is quite the meanest vice, But oh, to be the envied one Is really rather nice.

GLUTTONY

A GLUTTON is a horrid sight Devouring food with all his might.

Disgust for him is what one feels, Particularly after meals.

PRIDE

WERE every sin removed from me Excepting that of Pride, Just think how happy I should be And how self-satisfied!

ANGER

INSPIRED by Anger, how absurd

Is anyone's condition.

The man above has just now heard

The laws on Prohibition.

LUXURY

LUXURY, thy name is woman!

No vice can be compared With you,—you're so supremely human

And so divinely shared.

AVARICE

FAR from the prying eye of day The miser hides his hoard away.

I can't say that I greatly care.

I should, no doubt, were I his heir.

GUY ARNOUX, the artist who conceived and executed these deadly sins for Vanity Fair, is a Frenchman who is still in his thirties. He is best known as a color illustrator and has decorated, in his inimitable manner, many of the French classics. Arnoux is one of the chief contributors to La Gazette de Bon Ton, Vogue (Paris Edition) and other French periodicals. Lately he has taken an extraordinary interest in pirates, and is now engaged on a great work the sole purpose of which is to glorify the exploits of certain great pirates in history.