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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 45 **Top Cartoon ("No Epicure"):** A social satire showing young hostesses at a dinner party. One asks Mr. Brown if he's fond of babies, and he responds he hasn't "even tasted any lately." The joke plays on the ambiguity of "fond of"—suggesting he might eat babies—implying that Mr. Brown is a crude, uncultured dinner guest who misinterprets polite conversation. **Political Section:** References Chancellor Bismarck's aggressive Prussian military policies and his attempts to suppress the German Reichstag. The text criticizes his iron-fisted approach, calling it "a subtle distinction" between legitimate political maneuvering and outright authoritarianism. **Brief Humorous Items:** Include jokes about military spending, an Italian musician's background, Senate dining costs, and a woman's questionable judgment driving a hearse through a funeral procession.
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NO EPICURE. Young Hostess: 1 MUST SHOW YOU MY BaBY, MR. BROWN; ARE YOU FOND OF THEM ? Brown (absent minded): YES—OH YES! “THE HIGHLY IRASCIBLE CHANCELLOR.” HANCELLOR BISMARCK has brought his Teutonic thumb into play and endeavors to crush the Reichstag into compliance with his wishes in respect to the German army. That was a very subtle distinction which the Chancellor made between the army of his choice and that of the Mug- wump Windthorst—Imperial or Parliamentary. A Parlormentary force may do for the leaders of the Ger- man in this country, but with a man like Boulanger, with his TO CAPTAIN WILLIAMS. HAT you, dear captain, should be called A man of mettle, is most proper, Considering the well-established fact That you're a copper. Ji Ro IGNOR JOSEPH TOSSO, the late violimst j and composer, used to say of himself : “ My father was an Italian, my mother a French- woman. I was born on board a Spanish ship, sailing under the English flag in Mexican waters.” It is safe-to assume that Signor Joseph died | of International complications. | EATS in the United States Senate cost | nearly-as much as seats at the opera. RS. SPRIGGINS thinks that a certain | young lady of her acquaintance has no sense of proprietorship, because when the funeral was passing she had her sleigh Uriven right through the center of the corsage. BUT I HAVEN'T EATEN ANY LATELY. | legions of French dancing-masters waltzing along the bor- ders of Alsace and Lorraine, it is hardly to be wondered at that the Chancellor desires something more stable. T HERE is a rumor abroad that Mayor Hewitt, in a fit of i abstraction, attended a Wagner opera one night last week, and became so excited that he read the riot act and threatened to call out the militia if the disturbance didn’t quell itself. THERE’S MUSIC IN THE AIR. comicbooks.com