Life, 1888-02-09 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 73 This page contains social commentary and satirical advice columns rather than political cartoons. **"Don't Marry in the Army"** is an illustrated essay warning against military marriage, depicting domestic chaos within a soldier's quarters—suggesting married soldiers faced inadequate housing and difficult conditions. **"Could You?"** by Helen M. Winslow is a pointed poem questioning whether women possess practical domestic skills (bread-baking, cooking) despite their "charms and graces," satirizing the gap between idealized femininity and actual household competence. The remaining items mock Philadelphia's slowness, Yale College's handling of undergraduate conduct, and social etiquette lapses (Mrs. Blank's unexplained party cancellation). **"A Short Lesson"** provides Latin grammar humor with illustrations of prefixes and suffixes, offering educational satire typical of Life's intellectual audience.
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73 COULD You? | eet! with the shining hair, Holding all the charms and graces, Stately, kind, and passing fair, Could you wash the children’s faces ? When the rosy morning bright Paints with gold each roof and spire, Banishing the shades of night, Could you start the kitchen fire? O’er the fields with thee I wander, Summer's glory overhead ;” Charmed, I all thy virtues ponder,— But could—ah, could you make good bread? Eyes so deeply, truly tender, Clear as water in a pool, Answer my heart's importuning,— Have you been to cooking school ? Helen M, Winslow. HILADELPHIA may be slower than a lame snail in a molasses jug, but in the matter of throwing humbug moralists out of court, the Quaker City is a marvel of celerity. T begins to be quite clear why the strong-minded women of this land are in favor of the divided skirt. Belva Lockwood could run better next election in a pair of petticoats than in the ordinary skirt of com- merce. A SHORT LESSON. MR. EATON AND YALE COLLEGE. R. D. CADY EATON, having made serious charges against the undergradu- ates of Yale in effect that a “greed for gain actuates them in all their dealings with college enterprises,” has called forth a series of dignified responses from men better calculated than himself to know whereof they speak. Our candid opinion is, as it was when we read Mr. Eaton's letter in the 7rzbune, that that gentleman has written himself down a decided Dogberry. SOCIAL item in the 77zbune asserted that Mrs. Blank, of Fifth Avenue, invited twelve friends to dine with her on Tuesday evening, but by some reprehensible oversight, neglects to say whether the friends went or not. Is it right to leave the public in this maddening suspense ? ae Arion Society is ostensibly devoted to music, Herr Puffendorf, but in reality it is a ball club—and such balls! They would turn your Herr gray in a night! the end. SuFFix: Latin, fixum—to fix on, to add ta comicbooks.com