Life, 1887-01-20 · page 7 of 16
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# Analysis of "Retribution" Page from Life Magazine This page contains three satirical cartoons about punishment of misbehaving boys. The top panels show a "Deacon" and another adult figure catching boys in suspicious circumstances—apparently truancy or mischief. The caption notes the Deacon's suspicion proved justified by "subsequent events." The middle cartoon depicts an adult chastising boys, with one apparently knocked down in snow, illustrating consequences for wrongdoing. The right-hand text sections ("Not the Man," "Change of Diet") appear to be unrelated social commentary snippets, possibly satirizing upper-class pretension and dietary habits. The overall page theme is childhood discipline and moral instruction—typical Victorian-era Life magazine humor mocking both parental authority figures and wayward youth behavior.
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RETRIBUTION. The Deacon thought those boys had a suspicious air about them. ANOTHER CAUSE. HE Associated Charities, in their annual report, say that there are four causes for poverty: “ Drunkenness, igno- rance, laziness and pride.” They say nothing of the fifth, depositing money in savings-banks. THIS TIME, SURE. | “cs ES ! boy Jove,” said Slim- | sey, “I’m going to leave off drinkin’ after New Year's.” “T’ve heard you say that once before,” was the remark of Van. | “Ya-a-s! that was a year ago. | I began again about eleven months | since.” | It seems to us to be a crying defect in this volume that some wealthy people of Boston, Leadville and Bingen-on-the- Rhine, are omitted, and as we are asked by the compilers to kindly note and advise them of such errors as we see, we deem it our duty to ask them why they have omitted Mr. Jaehne, Herr Most, and many other of our esteemed social- ists who need more or less registering ?_ Why have Mr. and Mrs. James Brown Potter been registered as living abroad when Mr. James Brown Potter is at home? And while we are whying, why will not the New York City Directory do just as well as a Social Register as this poor little shrimp pink compilation of typographical errors ? Is it because the Directory is an index of the trades in which our society people have made their money? And He turns to chastise them, but the snow-slide gets there first. | cakes, sometimes?” “cc OW brilliant Augustus De Chatters is,” said Miss Asaline Le Fritters to her friend, Josefina McBoltz, as that elegant, gilt-edged youth left the room. “He really is like champagne, he has So much sparkle about him.” “Yes!” answered Miss McBoltz, but there’s no pop about him. He’s been alone with me for an hour past, and never said a word to the point, though I was hoping every moment he'd go off.” CHANGE OF DIET. “ AMMA, you say that papa goes to work to earn his bread. Why don’t he earn cream that trade is vulgar? And that the Directory is, therefore, full of vulgarity ? Perhaps so. But there are various kinds of vulgarity, and Social Registers represent one well-known species. This notice must not be construed as an advertisement, al- though the Social Register Publishing Company have our full permission to use it as such. + NEW BOOKS + } 70, THE, POET LAUREATE, by Louis Relrose, Jr. Washington: Brentanos’, A. S. Witherbee & Co., Proprietors. 5 By Woman’? Wit. A Novel, by Mrs. Alexander, Leisure Hour Series. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Buffalo Express Pictorial Vear-Book. Buffalo: J.N. Matthews. Gotham and the Gothamites, By Baron Heinrich Oscar von Karlstein, Translated by F. C. Valentine. Chicago: Laird & Lee. Civitas, the Romance of Our Nation's Life. By Walter L, Campbell. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. - The Romance of the Unexpected. By David Skaats Foster. New York G. P. Putnam's Sons. comicbooks.com ]