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This page features a darkly comic short story rather than a visual cartoon. The joke plays on the phrase "in the same boat" (meaning shared circumstances). **The Setup:** An asylum attendant shows a visitor two inmates. The first man lost his sanity from unrequited love—a girl married another man instead of him. **The Punchline:** When shown the second violent, raving inmate, the attendant reveals: "This is the other man!"—the one the girl *actually* married. **The Satire:** The joke mocks romantic disappointment by suggesting that *both* the rejected suitor and the woman's actual husband are equally driven mad by the situation. Marriage itself is implicitly presented as a form of insanity, a common theme in early 20th-century satirical humor. The irony is that both men—one who lost the girl and one who won her—end up institutionalized, making them truly "in the same boat." The surrounding content includes other brief humorous anecdotes and period advertisements (whiskey, steamship cruises, hotels).

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