Life, 1884-11-06 · page 7 of 16
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# "The Wolf and the Lamb" - Analysis This Aesop's fable illustration satirizes political power dynamics. The Wolf represents the strong exploiting the weak (the Lamb), echoing the classical moral that "might makes right." The accompanying article "When Belva Reigns" appears to mock women's suffrage and expanding female political participation. It sarcastically predicts chaos if women gain voting rights—describing absurd scenarios like militia women parading in "Zouaves" (military uniforms) and dismissing female voters as unable to make rational political decisions. The "Fashion's Fancies" section provides lighter social commentary on seasonal clothing trends, typical of Life's satirical format mixing political commentary with society-page humor and literary references.
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THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. A WOLF and a Lamb were drinking out of the same mountain stream, when the Wolf suddenly remarked, “ Look out, old fellow, you are muddying the water which | have tq:drink.” “ That ’s a lie,” replied the Lamb, “ because 1am lower down the stream. Such a falsehood must not go unpun'shed.” With these words, the Lamb leaped fierce- ly upon the frightened Wolf and chastised him severely. Moral: This Fable teaches that a knowledge of natural philosophy is serviceable to a professional liar. FASHION'S FANCIES. rT" ROUSERS will be cut @ 4a Pompadour this season with inserted fichus and gores on the bias. » * * OTHER HUBBARDS trimmed with purple wiggin and surmounted by plaited polonaises will be en regle at the November weddings. . . . “cs peor "is the new color. It runs to “ Purp-'Il.”* * ® * HEAP Cab Ochre and Old-Gold are not as de rigeur this season as last and sealskin sacques trimmed . with green pelf'sses are not worn in good society. * . * WRITER in the 7ymes states that suits are to be made this fall of striped goods, with the stripes run- ning crosswise. This is a direct imitation of the Blackwell's Island fashions, and in view of this it is strange that the pelisse should be so popular as nothing is more despised than the latter by the | inhabitants of that charming East River Resort. . * * Gitboons are made largely of tarletan panniers this winter and will be used much at skating parties. Pel- erine Dolmans ax mélitatre will be the correct costumes for young girls at the opera, while chaperones will affect sur- plice overskirts dotted with Suésse a la meringue. 259 WHEN BELVA REIGNS. = present to our readers this week some impressions of what our country will be in event of Mrs. Lockwood's accession to the Presidency. Man will undoubtedly step down and out of the exalted | supremacy in which he has rejoiced since the day when Adam first found that “ two was company.” We have no hesitation in saying that ere long man would lose his right to vote and would by degrees melt into that insignificance which is some- times to-day presented by that poor little specimen who has transferred the much contested trouser to his better half. Instead of coachmen eloping with our daughters our cooks will elope with our sons, and a stray daughter will in- | duce a timid buttons to share her lot for better or worse, for richer or poorer until divorce doth them part. Our young men will sit timidly at home trimming their beavers and making over their swallow-tail coats for the next ball to which they have been invited by neighboring daughters; the front door bell will ring, and the youths will blush- ingly receive boxes of segars neatly tied with blue ribbon, sent by some admirer of the fair sex. Then think of the poor fellows having to be proposed to without a chance to express a preference themselves, save in | leap year! Horrid thought ! And our militia! Our sisters, cousins and aunts will be ordered out to parade in the rain. What a sight for an en- lightened public when the Second Brigade of the National Amazons shall be reviewed by the Governors with their umbrellas up, and feather weight uniforms on. And then the Regimental trousers cut a /a Bloomer, making them all Zou- avesses! How proud will the Coloneless feel upon her prancing steed with her little sword dangling from her chate- laine! Think of the soprano quality of the cheers of the populace when the candidatesses ride past politely lifting their seventy- five dollar Spring bonnets from their heads and wondering all the while if their back hair is so fixed as to inspire the confidence of the people. Carry these suppositions as far as you will and draw your | own conclusions. Then, fellow men, don’t stay home on election day when so great a danger menaces us! Go to the polls and vote or you will wake on Wednesday and find your- selves an enslaved sex—and it will fall to your lot to rise on cold mornings before daylight to make the fire. ENERAL BUTLER sadly sings the lines of some long forgotten poet who said : Here ‘neath the cypress Crushed by a high press Of feclings I lie. Too fondly I trusted In cliques that busted And knocked me sky high. Morro for Walt W—t—n: Hinc illa lachryma:—Hence they lack rhyme. comicbooks.com