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# Life Magazine, July 14, 1887: "So It Does" This page features a single cartoon with accompanying caption. A young married couple stands in what appears to be a parlor, with the husband gesturing while speaking to his wife. The joke concerns the wife's complaint about the husband's changed behavior after marriage. She asks what it means that they no longer meet every night as they used to. His response—"That we have been married six months"—suggests that the initial romantic intensity of courtship naturally diminishes after half a year of marriage. The satire mocks the common domestic reality that newlyweds' behavior shifts from passionate courtship to routine married life. The cartoon's title, "So It Does," implies resignation to this inevitable marital pattern—the husband's blunt acknowledgment serving as dry commentary on how quickly romance fades in marriage.
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VOLUME X. NEW YORK, JULY 14, 1887. NUMBER 237.7 Entered at New York Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. Copyright, 1887, by Mrrcwait & Miiisa. SO IT DOES. A sesoum aman e1qeanonss Young Wife (petulantly): WELL, EVEN IF | DON'T COME TO MEET YOU EVERY NIGHT AS I USED, WHAT DOES IT SIGNIFY ? Young Husband: THAT WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED SIX MONTHS. = a a comicbooks.com