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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 130 **"The Anarchist's Lament"** satirizes a dynamiter lamenting his failed bomb attack. The verse mocks anarchist violence while playing on the perpetrator's self-pity about legal consequences—a reference to the late 19th/early 20th century anarchist bombings that terrorized American cities. **"Pictorial Shakespeare"** cartoon appears to show a scene with multiple figures around what looks like a barrel or container labeled with New York references, likely satirizing how Shakespeare's works were being adapted or commercialized in America. The remaining items are brief satirical notes on topics including a flat-earth advocacy publication, literary prospects, and social observations—typical of Life's style mixing visual and textual humor targeting contemporary figures and movements.
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THE ANARCHIST’S LAMENT. AID the Western Dynamiter : “*T do fear that I’ve made quite a Fatal error in a throwing of that bomb, bomb, bomb, For that justice wont be bafiled, And that from a wooden scaffold I must tumble to my little kingdom comb, comb, comb.” * * * WEEKLY paper called the Earth is to be started in | England, the mission of which is to advocate the flat- | ness of the earth. Most people want the Zarth, but if it proves its theory by | its own flatness, mankind may be cured of that most contag- ious disease of covetousness. * * * PICTORIAL SHAKESPEARE, "Lis ner THY Na. 11s MY ENEMY. —Komeo and Juliet. * * AMES RUSSELL LOWELL once remarked that Com- munism is Barbarism. This may account for the fact a large number of barbers are communists. * * * T= prospects of Literary Life are now couleur de Rose. * * * T has long been understood that the wages of sin is death, but it is probable that the Chicago Anarchists will ex- press some dissatisfaction at receiving them. * * * T is estimated that over a million unused obituary poems | on General Grant, were rung in on the late Samuel J. Tilden. * * * kills two birds with one stone. | with a dress suit. | suit ought to satisfy any man, no matter how young. He adds, | however, that they may do it differently out in San Francisco, | where the laundry business is subject to such competition that | three white vests can be washed for the cost of one in the | we know of. FROM ADVANCE SHEETS OF PUNCH. | T= condemned bomb-throwers are going to have their necks twirled (ext-world) a little sooner than they expected. * * * F the discourteous paragraphers speak truly, Dr. Mary Walker has the best claim to the title of First Lady in the Land. * * * CONCERNING ETIQUETTE. IFE gives notice that it has and intends to have no Eti- quette Department, and that all requests for informa- tion on the ways of society will be treated like all other manu- | scripts of an unavailable character, z. ¢., returned if accom- | panied by stamped and directed envelope; filed in a large | wicker basket if without a chaperone from the post office. The gentleman on the San Francisco Board of Trade who asked us the following questions, was doubtless unaware of the rules of our office, and we therefore make an exception in | his favor, earnestly requesting, however, that he wont do it again. He inquires : : x. When shall a young man wear white kid gloves ? 2, When shall a young man wear white vests with his dress-suit ? 3. Are gaiters or pumps the more appropriate for evening wear? To which we reply: 1, On consulting the encyclopedia of social etiquette revised to date we find that young men may wear white kid gloves at balls, hops, corn huskings, spelling bees, weddings, straw- | rides and, in fact, anywhere, provided the gloves are large enough. We once knew a young man who was buried in white gloves, but this was an extreme case. 2, This question bothered us considerably. The Editor- in-Chief didn’t know when a young man should wear white vests with a dress suit, because it has been so long since he was a young man that his knowledge on the subject is a little | rusty. The business manager thought a young man should | wear white vests with his dress suit as soon as his salary was large enough to stand such luxuries, and the office boy was of the opinion that a young man should never wear white vests He thinks that one white vest with a dress Eastern States. 3. This all depends on the weather. If it is a wet even- ing, we think pumps would come in handy. All further communications on this subject should be | addressed to the Etiquette Editor of the New York Wor/d, HEN a Turk wants to sneeze he calls for hasheesh, and | who has as original a fund of social information as any man J. K. Bangs. comicbooks.com