Life, 1885-11-26 · page 11 of 16
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# Life Magazine Page 305: Satirical Commentary This page contains **brief satirical "telegrams"** mocking contemporary figures and events, plus a comic strip about office chaos. **Key satirical items:** - The Sultan's plans undermined by American newspaper cablegrams (critiquing press influence on foreign policy) - Mexican businessmen wanting revolutions to resume (economic satire—instability drives commerce) - Peruvian revolutionists willing to sell their victory (political corruption joke) - Joaquin Miller cultivating a club-foot imitating Lord Byron (mocking pretentious literary affectation) - General Crook as "terrible" on Indian tracks (likely satirizing Indian Wars tactics) - "European Turkey is a self-carving bird" (Ottoman Empire dismemberment) **The comic strip** depicts an office in chaos: with the editor and manager absent, a friend left in charge barricades himself against two boys wreaking havoc with office supplies and "bric-a-brac," humorously depicting workplace anarchy. The page exemplifies *Life* magazine's characteristic quick-hit political and social satire targeting contemporary personalities, foreign policy, and everyday absurdities.
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TERSE TELEGRAMS, HE Sultan finds his plans thwarted and reversed by cablegrams to the | American papers. Mr. ROBERT BUCHANAN is preparing a withering critique of a new story by the angel Israfel. THE business men of Mexico ascribe the dull times to the recent lack of revo- lutions. THE Peruvian revolutionists, having gotten the upper hand, would like to dis- pose of it for a trifling consideration, either in money or provisions. | JOAQUIN MILLER is said to be culti- | vating a club-foot, in imitation of Lord Byron. THE display of brass by Gilmore's band created the wildest enthusiasm at the St. Louis Exposition. | GEN. CROOK seems to be a terrible fel- low on Indian tracks. | European Turkey is a self-carving bird. THE latest argument in favor of crema- tion is that it would greatly lessen the chance of burying people alive. The superior beneficence of burning them alive is obvious to a blind mule. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. “a AMMA,” said Young Bobby, with a thoughtful air, “ what did you mean by telling papa that I had out- grown my slippers ?” “T meant you are getting too big for them, Bobby.” “Well, then,” went on Bobby, “how long will it be before I outgrow your slippers?” ONE BEING ONE EDITOR BEING OUT, OUR MANAGER BEING DITTO, BOY NUMBER OUT, BOY NUMBER TWO BEING IN REPLETE AND REDOLENT (LUNCH AND TOBACCO), HE AGREES TO KINDLY MIND THE OFFICE WHILE WE SALLY FORTH TO APPEASE OUR OWN CRAVINGS FOR A NOON-TIDE MITAGESSEN, THIS IS THE FRIEND, NOW REALIZING HIS TRUE POSITION AND BARRICADING IT, AND GETTING DOWN THE MOST EFFECTIVE FORMS OF OUR BRIC-A-BRAC AND COOLLY AWAITING EVENTS, DITTO, A FRIEND COMING has been remarkably deep. /u/se is the typical Parisienne of the Faubourg St. Germain. Miss Helen Dauvray impersonated the American heroine and was delightfully vivacious. Miss Enid Leslie as /udre failed in the pathetic portions of her ré/e. Mr. J. W. Pigott as the Duc de Fouche-Fonblangue amused his audience throughout, while Mr. E. H. Sothern as the gallant captain of the Tenth Lancers did the same in a lesser degree. ‘One of Our Girls " is not drawing large audiences, HE faces and forms at the Casino, where “ Amorita,” | Czibulka’s new operetta, was produced last Monday, were pretty as to the former, and shapely as to the latter. | The bald-headed occupants of the first two rows of the orchestra had nothing to complain of in that direction. The | Operetta itself is admirably mounted, but the libretto and music are not to be compared with the humor and harmony of “ Nanon.” Pauline Hall, Madeline Lucette, and Mrs. Vic- toria Schelling, #¢e Morosini, were the female interpreters of “ Amorita,” while Frank Celli, whose voice is not nearly as good as that of his brother, W. T. Carleton; Frank Wilson and the Messrs. Klein, Standish and Fitzgerald, represented the sterner sex. Alan Date, “IT's a cold day when we get left” will hardly be appli- cable to the Day of Judgment. comicbooks.com