Life, 1888-09-13 · page 7 of 14
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# Page 147 from Life Magazine This page contains several brief humorous items typical of Life's satirical format: **"To E—, With Some Flowers"** is a sentimental poem about sending roses. **"Too High a Valuation"** is a joke about a customer negotiating with a bird fancier over parrot prices, playing on the expression "tried to sell me for twenty." **"Remember, brother, when courting an heiress..."** offers cynical romantic advice. **"She Misunderstood"** is a brief dialogue joke where a woman from Cincinnati confuses "Punch" (the British satirical magazine) with beer. The larger illustration depicts a domestic scene with a woman at a piano and a German professor, with a caption in German and English making an untranslatable pun about "music" (in German, *Musik* versus the English domestic reference). **"From Africa's Burning Shores"** introduces a narrative about a shipwreck and salvaged wardrobe in colonial Africa.
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TO E—, WITH SOME FLOWERS. TRAY accept my roses, Kor in them you see Little perfumed pages, With sweet thoughts from me. Humbly they salute you, Low their heads they bend, ‘Thus they tell the homage That to you I send. S. TOO HIGH A VALUATION. USTOMER (fo bird fancier): My wile wants a parrot. What's the lowest you will take for that bird ? Birp FANCIER: Fifty dollars, sir, is rock- bottom. PARROT: Come off, you've tried to sell me for twenty ! EMEMBER, brother, when courting an heiress, that beauty is but skin deep. SHE MISUNDERSTOOD. E: Do you like Punch? SHE (from Cincinnat:): very fond of beer. No, but I'm > LIFE: 147 FROM AFRIC'S BURNING SHORES, THERE MAD NA SHIPWRECK, AND THE WARDROBE OF A BURLESQUE TROUPE HAD BEEN WASHED ASHORE, IT WAS THE GOOD FORTUNE OF OWACKERRY TO SECURE THE SAID WARDROBE IN ITS NTIRETY, AND UPON ARRAYING HIM- SELF IN A FAIRY WAND AND A SHORT SKIRT, HE EXCITED THE ENVY OF MOKE AND MUNGO, TWO VERY DESPICABLE NATIVES OF THE LOCALITY, Herr Von Blatermutche : VELL, Miss BESsik, VOT YOU TINK OV MINE BLAYING, ALRETTY ? Bessie (of Boston): OU, THERE ARE NO musce domestica ON YOU, PROFESSOR! comicbooks.com