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# Analysis This page features a satirical serial called "Ain't Angie Awful!" about the romantic misadventures of a character named Angela Bish. The illustration shows a bearded man in old-fashioned dress carrying a woman, captioned "The Simple Robe in Which She Fludded." The satire targets prevailing sexual attitudes and romance fiction of the era. The text mocks Angela's romantic escapades—she's been living in a subway, briefly romanced by a slovenly man, then abandoned. The narrator sarcastically celebrates her "change" from the encounter, noting she's now willing to accept any offer, including a position as companion to a wealthy young Frenchwoman. The humor relies on mocking both the character's desperation and period romance tropes. Without identifying specific references, this appears to be general satire of contemporary romance narratives and women's precarious economic situations.
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A Leprous Buxcatow, Tuey Fouxp, Ramsuacktep to « Hicu Curr Ain’t Angie Awful! Being the Love Affairs of Angela Bish d Serial in Six Chapters Satirizing the Prevailing Sex Stories Uf. THE ADVENTURE OF THE OT long did Angela Bish remain at the six- She had tasted Romance @ /a cent store. subway For two days, now, she had winked, in the 199th Street Station, at a melancholy man in a slimy over- coat whose beard was full of big white blobs. He had smiled at her, she fancied; although, be- tween you and me and the chew- ing-gum distributing machine, the red paint of which was being hungrily licked off by a_half- starved tot, it may have been that. Misery, alas, too often draws only a smile from. the thoughtless. Be that as it may, let us re- turn to life as it is lived north of ith Street. Angie lived on the memory of that smile all day; and at night she warmed it over for supper. Already life had changed for Angie; and, inversely, Angie had changed for life. By Geterr Burcess Illustrated by Rea Irvin The third day, greatly daring, she returned his grin in even better condition than she had found it. Another instinct, and she was in his arms. Isn’t human nature wonderful, Gertrude? At one moment you are in heaven waited on by pink angels, and the next, some one has tried to borrow four dol- lars—and succeeded. And then, when your spirits are covered with green mould and _ infested with crawling things, lo, a friend appears out of Nowhere and offers you a position as compan- ion to a beautiful and wealthy young French girl at a salary of $3,000 a month and cigarettes. Isn't that true? Anyway, I'll say so. But I was speaking, you may remember, of our foolish heroine. ‘That embrace was a_revela- tion of rapture to Angie, who still had an amateur rating. How beardy his beard was!—and his hands were soft and cold and moist. At first she thought they were raw oysters. She had al- ways loved oysters, always would. She was happier than she had MAD) PAPER-HANGER Rose in Wuicu Sue Fieppep Tue Simpce 5 comicbooks.com