Life, 1888-07-12 · page 7 of 14
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 21 This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Labor Still Safe"**: A brief dialogue joke about Chinese laborers being admitted to New York bars and Union boycotts—likely referencing anti-Chinese labor sentiment and immigration restrictions common in early 20th-century America. 2. **"The Right Man"**: A newspaper editor cartoon about advertising copy for a circus. 3. **"Almost Another Engagement"**: A brief joke about Miss Gadabout's repeated engagements, poking fun at serial engagements among wealthy socialites. 4. **"Charitable"**: A dialogue joke mocking a woman (Madame de Brassy) who speaks unkindly of others while claiming charity, with the punchline suggesting language barriers excuse her rudeness. The page primarily features light, gossipy humor targeting social pretensions and contemporary scandals rather than serious political satire.
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-LI A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England, By Robert Carter. Boston: Cupples & Hurd. A Bachelor's Wedding Trip. Publishing Co. Gettysburg Made Plain. Nana. By Himself, Philadelphia: The Pen New York: The Century Co. By Emile Zola. Philadelphia : T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Kenneth Cameron. By Judge L. Q. C. Brown, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. ILLIAM PATTERSON was recently hanged at Louisville. Thus endeth a career of much suffering. THE RIGHT MAN. TRANGER (tn newspaper office): 1 want to see some writer who can get up a whopping advertisement for a circus, Epitor: Yes, sir. (Zo dey) James, ask the obituary editor to step here for a moment. FE - 21 LABOR STILL SAFE. ROGAN: Oi see by the paper that wan av thim Chinee bastes has been admitted to the New York Bar. Aff Oi could foind out the saloon where he’s wurrukin’ Oi'd have the Union put a boycott on it, sure as me name's Teddy Grogan! RourRkE: Whisht, man, it's not so bad as that—they've only made a lawyer av him. Thank Hivins; American labor is still safe! ALMOST ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT. ILL: So Miss Gadabout is engaged. Jove! she's been engaged to every fool in the place, I think. Who's the last idiot she hooked ?” Jinks: Myself! CHARITABLE. Daughter: Tnere’s THAT Mavame INDEED, OF EVERYBODY, be Brassy, SHE SAYS THE MEANEST THINGS POSSIBLE OF US; AS, Mamma: ON, WE WON'T MIND THAT, MY DEAR; PERHAPS SHE DOESN'T KNOW ENOUGH ENGLISH TO SPEAK THE TRUTH, comicbooks.com