Life, 1887-01-06 · page 10 of 16
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# "An Interior" Cartoon Analysis This cartoon depicts a physiology lesson where a **Professor questions a student named Mabel** about human anatomy. The humor relies on Mabel's deliberately obtuse or cheeky answers: - When asked "Where is your heart?" she answers "Here" (pointing somewhere) - Asked about her liver, she claims "I haven't any. Cows have livers" - When asked where her back is, she responds "Well then, where is my bacon?" The satire mocks **Victorian-era education and gender attitudes**—suggesting female students were either genuinely ignorant of basic anatomy or performed ignorance as a form of social propriety. The joke plays on **conflating animal butchery terms with human anatomy**, implying Mabel confuses practical meat-cutting knowledge with biological science. This reflects contemporary anxieties about women's education and intellect.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE CHUM'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH POTENTATES. R. GLADSTONE has written a reply to Baron Tennyson's ‘ Locks- ley Hall Sixty Years After.” It is believed by those who are intimately acquainted with the grand old man that he takes the poet's line: “ Old Experience is a Fool,” ina strictly personal sense. * * * THE carriage built for the triumphal entry — which never took place —of the Comte de Chambord into Paris, is now the state car- riage of the Queen of Greece. She paid $5,000 for it. It is said to be a very hansom cab. * * * T= Queen has commanded the Poet-Laureate to write a triolet on the approaching Jubilee. * * * HE Caar of Russia, who is quite a wit, writes me that the King of Bulgaria isa non-est person, at all events. If this is true it greatly reduces the chances of a large majority of the present candidates, and seems to point to the selection of the Bat- tenberg Infant. SCRAPS. OLD feet are not pleasant, except they happen to be pig’s feet, then they are better cold than warm, Jokes of this kind are not so expensive asthey used to be on account of the competition, xk Ok Nenterpris- ing Har- lem saloon ad- vertises: “ Free lunch in a box to take home five cents.” x oe x IEUT. HENN is confident that he will win next year. He counts his chickens be- fore they are Mabel: HERE. Professor : OH YES YOU HAVE. THE King of Spain has vetoed the resolution of the Cortes to sub- stitute Granum for the bottle. * * * i te success of.Queen Victoria's last book has been so great that her publishers have decided to issue an Edition-de-Luxe, limited to one copy, which will be presented to the Mikado of Japan. * * * PRESIDENT of the Swiss Republic was elected a short time ago, but up to the hour of going to press, no one has been able to learn his name. ‘The President himself professes profound ignorance on the subject, owing to his conservative habits and inherent dislike of doing anything that might tend to establish a precedent. * * * PRINCE HENRY, of Battenberg, remarked toa friend, a few days ago, that as between his imperial mother-in-law and Dynamite, he'd choose to be blown up by the latter every time. * * * HE Sultan has offered to permit Sunset Cox to wear his shoes to church, if he will only return, but the late Minister is firm in his refusal to again visit Constantinople. It is reported in Washington that Mr. Cox thinks the Sultan a too harem-scarem sort of fellow to fool with, and prefers meddling with the tariff to smoking lemonade with the heathen impotentate. AN INTERIOR. Professor (who has been giving simple lessons in physiology): WHERE 1S YOUR HEART, DEAR? Professor ; AND WHERE 18 YOUR LIVER? Mabel (éndignantly) : I HAVEN'T ANY. COWS HAVE LIVERS. hatched. Mabel (after some thought): WELL THEN, WHERE IS MY BACON? comicbooks.com