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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 143 **"From the Nursery" cartoon:** A social satire on wealthy child-rearing. A gentleman asks Miss Belasys how water tastes, implying surprise that she was raised on milk rather than water—a jab at the pampered upbringing of the wealthy, who could afford luxuries common people couldn't. **"Across the Waste":** Romantic poetry featuring exchanges between "She" and "He," likely satirizing sentimental Victorian verse popular in the era. **"Universities as Advertising Agencies":** A critical piece about Columbia College's banking endorsement letter. The satire suggests universities were compromising academic integrity by lending their prestigious names to commercial enterprises (here, the Columbia Bank), treating themselves as mere advertising vehicles rather than independent institutions. The page reflects Gilded Age concerns about commercialism and social pretension.
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FROM THE Dude (posing for a bold, bad man): Miss B.: NURSERY. How DOES WATER TASTE, Miss BELASys? You DON’T MEAN TO SAY THEY'VE BROUGHT YOU UP ALL THIS TIME ON MILK ! ACROSS THE WASTE. SHE. AVE you hated me well and held me cruel, Lover of mine, whom I left so long ? Have you thought with pain I contemned the jewel Of love so loyal and faith so strong ? HE, Sweet, should I take what I once had given, Your militant right to rule and reign ? Let silence have doomed me or speech have shriven, I prized the pardon or bore the pain. SHE, The years and the fates have been very grievous To you, my lover; as well to me, They bind us in love, then only leave us That I both your judge and your scourge must be. HE, Darling, I heed not if they but leave me The dream of your face and the by-gone bliss ; I would never exchange for my lot most lonely The promise of aught that would kill your kiss ! j.M. UNIVERSITIES AS ADVERTISING AGENCIES. ’ | ‘HE graduates of Columbia College have recently received the following communication’ from its President. No. 63 East 4gth Street, New York, February, 1884. Dear Sir: L very cordially commend the Columbia Bank, (Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street), for your per- sonal, family and business accounts. It has been named in honor of Columbia College, the Alma Mater so dear to her sons, and tt would be only a suitable reciprocity to acknowledge the compliment in a practical way. It ts for the interest of up-town residents, to build worthy up-town institutions. The active Bank directors controlling its management are among the most experienced and successful financiers in the city, and every one dealing with the Bank may do so with the utmost confidence. Very Truly Yours, fF. A. P. BARNARD. The credit of suggesting this letter is doubtless due to one of President Barnard’s colleagues upon the board of direction, Mr. comicbooks.com