Life, 1888-03-01 · page 5 of 16
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 119 The main illustration depicts a domestic scene with a woman and children, captioned "EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES." The dialogue shows a woman defending a child's hunting of a "dear little bird" to a man named John, suggesting the cartoon critiques parental indulgence or lax discipline. The page contains several brief satirical notes under "OBSERVATIONS": - A joke about a duck calling the "right bower" in card games - Commentary on Chinese poetry composition - A jab at a prominent gambler's wedding announcement reading "No cards" - A critique of church canons becoming "loaded" - A political comment about "scarred warriors" in newspapers These are typical *Life* magazine humor pieces—quick social and political jabs at contemporary issues, though specific references remain unclear without additional historical context.
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OBSERVATIONS. UCK calls home the right bower. It is quite as fre- quently the left bower, as the joker might have seen for himself had he taken the trick—we should say, the trouble. What fools this mortal be! * * * HE arrest of the Grand Army men, who were accompanying a corpse to its last resting-place, with appropriate dirges, was due to the laws against music and bier. That law must go. * * * HE Empress of China has com- posed 600 stanzas of poetry within the past year, and they are said by Chinese critics to be richer than the songs. of Persia. It is strange to what lengths critics will go in a land where the hamstring is a molder of opinion! * * * HE notice of the wedding of a prominent gambler, last week, contained this significant par- agraph: “No cards.” * * * T is not considered proper for canons of the church to get loaded. * * WESTERN politician was dis- gusted to see his reference to “scarred warriors” printed in the papers as the “scared war- tiors.”” LITTLE BIRD! “RELIEVED. JONES: lieved. JSMYTHE: Relieved? pened to relieve you? BJONES: Oh, it says here that my brother George and Sally Higgins were quietly married at St. George’s yester- day. I was afraid the papers would usual, and say they were noisily married. Well, I tell you, I’m re- What's hap- exaggerate, as ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT. OLAPUK, Mr. Higgins, is a universal language that nobody speaks. EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. She: YoU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, JOHN, FOR SHOOTING SUCH A DEAR He: | THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE IT FOR YOUR HAT. She: OH, WHAT A Good IDEA! THAT WAS VERY THOUGHTFUL OF You, JOHN. HORRID AFFLICTION. RS. VERBOSE: I dread typhoid more than any dis- ease I know of. Mr. VERBOSE: Typhoid! You surprise me! think lock-jaw would be your déte nozr. I should CRITIC, John, is a creature who can always tell another man how he ought to do a thing that he cannot do himself. ECCENTRICITY OF GENIUS. RS, NOUVEAU RICHE: What an eccentric person that man Tolstoi must be, to be sure. He dots his i's twice. comicbooks.com