Life, 1887-06-23 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 345 **"A Fair Financier"** (top cartoon): This satirizes wealthy individuals and inheritance. The dialogue references legacies of "four hundred dollars" versus expected "ten thousand" and suggests a father figure ("Papa") would have invested it all away. The humor targets the financial irresponsibility or poor investment decisions of the rich. **"He Respondeth"** (left column): A verse-based joke mocking wasteful spending—specifically cigarettes at "a thirty dollar" cost, contrasted with setting "a good example." **"The Fox and the Goat"**: A fable retelling where a fox and goat fight, then the fox sells their conflict story to a magazine for profit. The moral: "the pen is mightier than the facts"—satirizing sensationalist journalism and monetization of conflict. The remaining items are brief satirical quips on various social topics.
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Ay yitMy nite nen A FAIR FINANCIER. “OH; NELL! ISN’T IT LUCKY OUR LEGACIES WERE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS!” “Lucky ? WHEN WE EXPECTED, AT LEAST, TEN THOUSAND APIECE!” “BUT DON’T YOU SEE, DEAR, IF WE HAD HAD ALL THAT PAPA WOULD HAVE INVESTED) IT.” HE RESPONDETH. THE FOX AND THE GOAT. She. A FOX and a goat that had become unfriendly for a trifling reason, . met one day and had a fight, in which the fox was severely beaten. OU still persist in using, The goat spent the next few days in annoufiting his victory throughout I observe with great regret, the neighborhood ; but the fox straightway sat down, wrote a lengthy The needlessly expensive description of the encounter, and sold it to a magazine as a war article, Cigarette. receiving therefor a handsome fortune. The article was published with profuse illustrations, representing the defeat, rout and annihila- He. tion of the goat. Thereafter the fox was the hero of the community, You should set a good example, and the goat, being admonished by a vigilance committee, moved into the next county. But you seem to quite forget That you use a thirty dollar MorRAL: This fable teaches that the pen is often mightier than the Vinaigrette. facts. ——EEe R. DANA, of the esteemed Sum, claims that he has not danced HE Jersey Lily always plays to crowded houses in New Jersey. in forty years, But he has made a good many other people The people there think she is a native of their own country. dance. RANGE mobs are dangerous and so are orange seeds. And so ENNYSON, at the command of Her Majesty, is writing an ode to are orange blossoms, too, sometimes. Buffalo Bill. AN Anti-Work Society would be peculiar, but it would be honest in HEN it comes to political suicide, the pen is mightier than a is the statement of its mission. dozen swords. comicbooks.com