Life, 1887-02-17 · page 5 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 89 **Main Content:** Two cartoon panels titled "Sauce for the Goose" depict domestic scenes where a husband and wife exchange cutting remarks about theater attendance and household spending. The humor relies on marital role-reversal and tit-for-tat arguments—she criticizes his theater trip, he retorts about her expensive seal-skin purchase. **"The Advertising of the Future" Section:** Below are satirical fake advertisements mocking emerging transportation and services. The "Holocaust Rapid Transit Company" with its skull-and-crossbones logo, "Suredeath Line," and "Cemetery Satchel" products suggest dark humor about railroad safety hazards and travel dangers of the era. These ads parody genuine advertisements while highlighting public anxiety about modern industrial transportation—a genuine contemporary concern during the early automobile and train expansion period.
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SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE. She: 1T WAS AWFULLY MEAN OF YOU TO GO TO THE THEATRE WITHOUT ME, He: OU, WELL, IT IS JUST THE SAME AS IF WE BOTH WENT; WE ARE ONE, YOU KNOW. Two Days Later. He: THIS HOUSE IS ENOUGH TO FREEZE ONE, AGNES, DIDN'T YOU ORDER THE COAL? She: No, DARLING; I BOUGHT THIS SEAL-SKIN SACQUE IN- STEAD. BUT I AM WARM, AND WE ARE ONE, YOU KNOW. THE ADVERTISING OF THE FUTURE. In no spirit of levity Lire predicts that unless some new method of heating our cars is speedily obtained the railroad advertising of the future, to be honest, will have to read very much as follows : TO TRAVELERS. TRY THE | CEMETERY SATCHEL. One of the greatest conveniences of modern travel. Adds materially to comfort of travelers. In the over-heated cars, holding as it does all the articles of the toilet, together with OUR POPULAR SHROUD, which experts state to be the best RECHERCHE DUSTER ever manufactured. THE Travelers’ Novelty Co., HOBOKEN. Trade-Mark, THE SUREDEATH LINE, Limited, SECURE BERTHS AT ONCE for the Ice Carnival. Upper Berth, similar in construction to our trade-mark, $4.00. Lower Berth, with ice-box attached, $7.00. 41172 Broadway. The Holocaust Rapid Transit Company’s Cars are heated by the Celebrated BURNHARD HEATER. No difficulty about fires. Fire Insurance Policy and Free In- cineration Coupon given away with every first-class ticket on our line. CLERGYMEN Of all denominations constantly in attendance. No victim of. the Holocaust Rapid Transit Company has ever been known to complain of our service. Low rates to all parts of this world and the next. No return tickets issued. TICKETS FOR OUR ROUTE AT ALL RESPECTABLE UNDERTAKERS. NOTICE. TO GENTLEMEN CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE. The cars of the Central Railroad of Hohokus are heated by the most approved of modern apparatus, and we feel that we can conscientiously recommend any per- \ son who may be tired of life to travel on our road. The chances of escape are NOT ONE IN TEN THOUSAND, to say nothing of the crime of which our system relieves our patrons. E. TERNITY, \ General Passenger Agent. comicbooks.com