Life, 1887-12-29 · page 7 of 21
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 375 **"The Difference"** (top cartoon): A satirical jab at class distinctions. A working-class child asks their mother who made them, and she replies "Poole, of London"—referencing an exclusive London tailor. The joke mocks how wealthy families traced their importance to fashionable makers and establishments, while poor families had no such pretensions. **"Newark's Bogus Lord"**: Criticizes an aristocratic con artist who exploited London society through false manners and claims of nobility, then fled—likely a contemporary scandal. The text condemns how the wealthy tolerate rudeness from supposed "superiors." **"An Authority"**: Satirizes ex-Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago for writing inflammatory letters about Japanese immorality based on limited experience, suggesting his criticism stems from Western prejudice rather than genuine expertise.
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NEWARK’S BOGUS LORD HE unkindest thing of all they say about the Newark victims is that their Bogus Aris- tocrat was a cad, and had very Yad manners. We do not think worse of people of consequence who are rude to others, provided that they are polite to us. In fact, don’t we think rather better of them? We will even stand a little of their impudence our- selves if we have use for them and think we can bring them around. But after having suf- fered with such people to have them turn out of no consequence —ah, that is bitter! T is rumored about London that the Queen gave the Prince of Wales a piece of ad- vice for Christmas. Little Girl: Mother: THE DIFFERENCE, No, MY CHILD. MaMMA, DID GoD MAKE HIM? Poot, OF. LONDON, MADE HIM. AN AUTHORITY. X-MAYOR CARTER HARRISON, of Chicago, writes interesting letters from Japan to a Chicago newspaper, but expresses himself as shocked at the customs of the country, He says he fears the Japanese are the most immoral people in the world. ‘The ex-Mayoris high authority on such a subject, but it is sug- gested that possibly he owes a grudge tothe Babylon of the West andiswriting witha viewto induce emigration from there to Tokio. NARCHIST MOST gets one year for making an incendiary speech, while an um- brella thief is sent up for five years. This shows that the courts intend to crush the actual foes of society before they begin on mere blatant theorists. comicbooks.com