Life, 1888-08-02 · page 7 of 14
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 63 This page contains several brief satirical dialogues and illustrations typical of Life's humor section. **"A Sick Household"** jokes about a quarantined home with smallpox—the citizen claims a "Sheriff in the household" rather than acknowledging the disease. **"No Time to Lose"** depicts two New Yorkers rushing to steal something, using "hanged" as dark humor about their criminal intentions. **"Disastrous Suspicion"** presents a misunderstanding where Harry hasn't a cent in his pocket, making Charley suspicious he's being cheated out of five dollars owed. **"Just the Place"** shows a woman and Uncle James joking about needing a summer wardrobe—she suggests Narragansett Bay (implying swimming/minimal clothing). The bottom section advertises new books, listing titles and publishers. The cartoons are simple line drawings typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines.
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-> LIFE: what she has taught us to call “* American literature "—the rest of the States need not believe that they are, therefore, of a lower grade of civilization. If the faculty of expression and civilization went entirely hand in hand, then we should have a great deal more to learn from the times of Shake- speare, Dante, Virgil, Moliére, Voltaire, or Confucius. Is it not time to quit believing that only a narrow seashore strip of this country is civilized and refined, while all the rest is vulgar? The West and South have been told this so often in New England books that they have come to acquiesce in it, though they may be sceptical of its truth. Droch, NEW BOOKS - AN IDYL OF BAR HARBOR. Frederick W. Pearson. New York: ‘The Welles Publishing Company. The Tale of the Shakespeare Epitaph, By Francis Bacon. Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co. A Winter Picnic. By Dickinson and Dowd. New York: Henry Holt &Co, The Septameron, Philadelphia: David McKay. The Maiden Widow, By Mrs, E. D. E.N, Southworth. Philadelphia: T. B, Peterson & Brothers. The Land of the Nihilist, By W. E. Curtis, Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co. The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah. By Doon Piatt. York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co. Woman the Stronger. By W. J. Flagg. Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co. Chicago, New Chicago, New York and San JUST THE PLACE. She; 1 DON'T KNOW WHERE I SHALL GO THIS SUMMER, IF I GO ANYWHERE, I REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR, Uncle James; THEN WHY NOT GO TO NARRAGANSETT Bay, 63 WHERE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE CAME IN. A SICK HOUSEHOLD. TRANGER (Co crtizen at front gate): 1 see you've got a red flag out ; small-pox in the household ? CITIZEN (dismaily): Wuss nor that, Stranger; there's a Sheriff in the household ! NO TIME TO LOSE, First NEW YORKER (on Broadway): What's your hurry, Brown ? SECOND NEW YORKER (éreathlessly): know! What's yours? First New YORKER: Hanged if I know! take something. Hanged if I Let's go and DISASTROUS SUSPICION. HARLEY: I say, Brown, have you got change for a ten? HARRY (suspicrously): Er—no, Charley, I haven't a cent in my pocket. CHARLEY: Sorry, old man; I wanted to pay the five I owe you. THE TEA-GROWER'S HYMN—“ Nothing but Leaves.”