Life, 1887-12-15 · page 7 of 16
Life — December 15, 1887 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 347 This page features a satirical dialogue between characters discussing American geography and social movements. The main illustrated cartoon shows an ornate heart-shaped vignette depicting domestic or romantic scenes. The text mocks a character named Wiggins for wobbling about sidewalk construction, then presents exchanges with a "Stranger" about radical movements (Socialists, Anarchists, Labor Reformers, Anti-Poverty-ites) meeting in New York. The humor appears to target both naive provincialism—a Michigander bragging about superior whiskey—and Eastern intellectual pretension regarding radical politics. The joke suggests that serious political ideology is less important than practical concerns like cheese and whiskey. The "Our Advice" section below lists new book recommendations, typical of Life's literary coverage during this period.
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UNDER FULL SAIL. IGGINS: For goodness’ sake, Wiggins, why do you wob- ble around the sidewalk so? Go home, you're flustered ! WIGGINS (indignantly): I'm not! But I can’t manage these new baggy trousers in a headwind, you know, and have to tack to get the wind on my beam. TRANGER: Where do you Socialists, Anarchists, Labor Reformers and Anti-Povertyites meet in New York? ANARCHIST: At Cooper Union. STRANGER: Oh, yes; the build- ing was founded by a millionaire's benevolence, I believe! ICHIGAN CITY is in Indi- ana and Kansas City is in Missouri. We Eastern people can do better than that—but we drink a finer quality of whiskey, and not quite so much of it. MONG traveling salesmen order is Heaven's first law. I N case you should want to com- mit hari-kari—and some of you ought—you will find that the sword is mightier than the pen, but when it comes to cheese, that is mite-e-er than either. have been accustomed to call thought. But the successful author, and the host of readers who made him so, see none of these things. The former made visible the dream which was struggling for shape and expression in the hearts of men. And they, recognizing their kinship with the child of genius, cherish it as their own. Droch. NEW BOOKS « . ‘Third Series, Edited by Lynds E. Jones. New Sons. Recent Advances in Electricity, By Henry Greer, Mlustrated. Sonnets of Love and Life. By Edward Wells, Jr., & Heary E. Bedford. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother. Free Joe, and other Georgian Sketches. York : Charles Scribner's Sons. Paul Pateff, By F, Marion Crawford, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. A Woman's Reason. By W. D. Howells. Boston: Ticknor & Co. St. Nicholas, 1887. Two Volumes. New York: The Century Co. The Century, 1887. New York: The Century Co. Down the Islands. A Voyage to the Caribbees, York: Charles Scribner's Sons. How Deazon Tubman and Parson Whitney kept New Year's. By W. H.H. Murray, Boston: Cupples & Hurd. Diet in Relation to Age and Activity. By Sit H. Thompson, F.R.C.S., Boston : Cupples & Hurd. By Joel Chandler Harris. New By W. A. Paton, New OUR ADVICE. Mayor Lawrence, F. Ry Hon, Emily Lawless, New York: Henry Holt & Co. Who Cares? Episodes ia the Life of Mary Campbell. Facts, not Fancies. Ry Mrs, Harriet N. K. Goff, with an Introduction by Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros. The Story of an Enthusiast, By Mrs.C. V. Jamison, Boston: Tickoor & Co, Damen's Ghost. Social Registe Song of the River. Lauriat. Zigzag Journeys in India Hereliah Butterworth. Mlustrated, By E. L. Bynner, Boston: Ticknor & Co. New York, 1883, New York : Social Register Association. By Charles Kingsley. Ilustrated, Boston: Estes & A Collection of the Zenini Tales. By Roston: Estes & Lauriat INTERESTING ITEMS. A ‘ English literary man has discovered a hundred-line poem by Lord Tennyson in the waste-basket of his father, who was once the editor of an English fireside weekly. The New York World can print seventy-five lines of ad- vertising in twenty-three lines and still have room for an affidavit. Hugh Conway's friends think that the posthumous works of the deceased novelist show more fire than the others. comicbooks.com