Life, 1887-03-03 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 117 **"Grace's Valentine"** (top): A romantic illustration accompanying a poem about an elaborate Valentine's Day gift for someone named Grace—featuring satin frills, lace, and roses. This is sentimental verse with decorative artwork, typical of the era's Valentine's Day content. **"To the Bostonians"** (main text): A satirical essay praising Mr. Andrew Lang, described as an English writer of letters. The piece humorously suggests using bean-juice as ink for writing, referencing an anecdote about Pythagoras. It's gentle intellectual satire mocking Boston's literary pretensions while praising Lang's wit. **"The Palmistry of Our Youth"** (bottom right): A small illustration of what appears to be a fortune teller reading a palm, likely accompanying a humorous piece about fortune-telling trends.
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GRACE'S VALENTINE. UCH a dainty valentine! Cupids, mottoes, lace, Roses, satin frills — in fine, Just the thing for Grace ! 2. ‘ a] Push the satin frills apart, 4 Lo! beneath the lace Lies a flimsy, tinsel heart— Just the thing for Grace! A Fe q TO THE BOSTONIANS. N_ absent-minded man in . . . s | Chicago left his fiancée to M R. ANDREW LANG is an English gentleman of letters who has yet to touch that | obtain a marriage-license and which he does not adorn. In view of this fact, it is not surprising that his “At the | came back with a decree of Sign of the Ship,” which occupies about the same relation to Longman's Magazine as | divorce instead. the Editor's Study does to Harper's Monthly, has attained for our English contemporary a widespread popularity. In his January contribution, Mr. Lang discourses pleasantly concerning the Municipal symbol of the American Athens. Among other things he says: “I have read in some strange, old ‘volume of forgotten lore’ that Pythagoras said that whatever is written in bean-juice, on this earth, reappears on the lunar disk. How long it must bé since anyone tried this simple experiment and wrote a sentence in bean-juice!” Here is a suggestion which we hope Boston will not ignore—that of manufacturing ink from the oil of the bean, and securing therewith a lunary as well as mundane literature. It is true that were all the literary spokes of the cultured hub to write with this fluid, there would have to be sacrificed | myriads of the beloved emblem; but would not this very immolation tend to elevate litera- ture, even in Boston? And if the production of the community were limited to the capac- | ity of the moon, would it not be a priceless boon to the world at large ? Indeed, yes, brethren of the Pen! It were a public benefaction should you play the THE PALMISTRY OF OUR Brutus to your beloved succulent and write your books in its juice. | YOUTH. . comicbooks.com