Life, 1887-11-10 · page 7 of 16
Life — November 10, 1887 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# "One Bill the President Cannot Veto" This political cartoon satirizes presidential power by depicting a woman presenting a bill or document to a man (likely representing a President or authority figure). The title's joke is that while a President can veto legislation, he cannot veto certain domestic matters—specifically, this appears to reference a woman's authority within the household or domestic sphere. The woman's assertive posture and the man's apparent submission suggest commentary on gender dynamics and domestic authority. The cartoon likely reflects late 19th or early 20th-century humor about the limitations of male power once men leave the political realm and enter domestic life, where women traditionally held sway. It's a "battle of the sexes" joke common to this era.
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> LIFE: NOTES AND QUERIES. OUNG HOUSEKEEPER writes to ask what branch of the feathered kingdom the reed-bird belongs to. The ordinary reed-bird of trade belongs to one of two classes, known as Robinus Kedbreastiosus or Sparroicus Anglicus. As a rule, Young Housekeeper will find that, when she has paid her money for her reed-birds, she can take her choice of the above varieties. For further information address the World. tiquette"” column of . . . S there any distinction between pants and trousers? asks J.D. There is. Pants are what you buy for three dollars a pair, where the same thing in trousers costs eighteen dollars. The latter are worn exclusively by Boston gentlemen. ONE BILL THE PRESIDENT CANNOT VETO. AN URBAN PHENOMENON. Why is it when you are walking down a quiet street, with not a hu- man being in sight— If you stop to look in a window, you are made aware of a dozen faces striving to thrust. them- selves between you and the | object of your contemplation ? LITERARY AND ART NOTES. [From our Western Correspondent. LITERAL translation of Browning is to appear in Chicago next month. It has taken ten scholars to lick it into shape. * * * HE KANSAS CITY SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY is debating the question, “Would the Bard of Avon have lived in Bos- ton had he been a product of the Nineteenth Century * «© « R. ALFRED DRYSDALE, of Cannes, has written a book on Wintering Abroad, which is very popular among the elight of Chicago. Col. Eugene Field is about to prepare two companion volumes, entitled ‘Springing at Saratoga” and ‘* Falling Down East. . * * WESTERN Art Connoisseur avers that next to Meissonier’s 1807 the nicest thing he knows in oils is the Chicago Boneless Sar- dine.—Adv, . * * PROMINENT Chicago publishing house is getting up a special edition of the Bible for the use of Autumn Leaf Collectors. * * . OL. THOMAS W. KNOX has written a book called ** Dog Stories and Dog Lore.” Western dogs have not been touched on, they are such loreless creatures. * . . LARGE paper edition of the Pork-packers’ Report for 1886, extra illustrated, will be brought out in Cincinnati next week, The whole edition has been bought up. ° . . HE rumor that James Russell Lowell is about to return to America has created quite a stir in Chicago literary circles. There is a movement on foot to get him to visit the Lake City again to lecture on Queen Victoria's Jubilee, when it is expected much light will be shed on the authorship of Ignatius Donnelly. comicbooks.com