Life, 1888-03-01 · page 7 of 16
Life — March 1, 1888 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 121 The page contains three distinct sections: **"More Prodigies"** (top left): Brief humorous notes about talented individuals—a girl who can't play piano, a Chicago man good at after-dinner speeches, a young shoemaker-poet, and a Brooklyn grocer's son who plays piano under it. **Main Cartoon** (center): Shows a disgusted grizzly bear reading a newspaper ("Stories of Bears"), complaining about exaggerated hunting tales. The caption jokes that the bear dislikes "yarns" written about his kind—a satire on sensationalized newspaper reporting. **Lower Cartoon** (bottom): Titled "Oh, 'Tis Love!" depicts a domestic scene where a woman signals a man, humorously captioned as "Caspar's signal" to disassemble—likely referencing a popular comic character or domestic routine of the era. The page exemplifies Life's typical satirical humor targeting journalism, human vanity, and domestic life.
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MORE PRODIGIES. HERE is a girl in Vassar Col- lege, eighteen years of age, who cannot play upon the piano and doesn’t try. * * * ‘Aegreat Fight Between Silver Tip Bea | GENTLEMAN who hails and Tro Manta Liat from Chicago is said to be hearse tte able to make a good after-dinner speech without alluding to Chaun- cey Depew. * * * IX North Brookfield, Mass., is a young shoemaker who can write one of Mr. Lowell’s poems off-hand with such fluency that Mr. Lowell himself cannot decide whether he wrote it or not. * * * SON of a worthy grocer in ‘ Brooklyn is believed to rival Joseph Hofmann in his ability to play under the piano. 6“ O,” said the old lady, as she slipped on the side- walk, and came down with much more force than elegance, “IT don't Disgusted Grizzley (perusing a stray copy o7 the Sunday Sun): VD LIKE TO GET MY HOOKS like the sitty in winter. ON THE GALOOT THAT'S BEEN WRITING ALL THESE YARNS ABOUT US! . POSSIBLY. ISS SHORTHORN (of Cin- cinnatz) : I've been studying up the history of my town, and, do you know, it’s very interesting to trace it far back into almost prime- val times and try to find out who were the first settlers in one’s own immediate neighborhood. MR. BJONES: I suppose you dis- covered Cincinnati to have been first settled by the followers of Ham? ENRY GEORGE and Mc- Glynn have parted company. What is the matter, Doctor? Isn’t there enough money in Anti- Poverty to support you both ? BUSINESS. OHNFELD: Well, Rebecca, things look better than they did yesterday. I thought last night I'd failed for $20,000, but I found HORy MRIS LOVE" to-day I’d made an error in the Anastasia: YT 1s Caspar’s SIGNAL! I MUST DISSEMBLE, figures. It’s $100,000! comicbooks.com