Life, 1888-11-08 · page 11 of 14
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# Life Magazine Page 263 - Satirical Vignettes This page contains several brief satirical sketches mocking various social behaviors: **Top image**: "An Ancient Print" parodies religious art by depicting the Adam and Eve apple story as a social scandal, with period-dressed figures engaging in what appears to be illicit fruit commerce. **"Wasteful"**: Uncle Abner criticizes wealthy travelers who pay premium prices for first-class passage rather than economical steerage, calling such extravagance a "slave to rum" (drunkenness/vice). **"Dry-Goods Clerk"**: A customer complains that a clerk cannot locate an umbrella she left three weeks prior—mocking poor retail service. **"Cats-Abianca"**: A humorous poem about a cat indifferently ignoring chaos (flying objects, neighbors' chaos) while calmly eating, parodying the famous poem "Casabianca" about a boy who heroically stays at his post. The page satirizes consumer wastefulness, class pretension, commercial incompetence, and literary sentimentality through brief, pithy jokes typical of *Life* magazine's satirical format.
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AN ANCIENT PRINT. PROBABLY ILLUSTRATING THE ADAM AND EVE APPLE SCANDAL, WASTEFUL. AT WOMAN (to living skeleton): Try it with this straw; it's a great deal nicer. T what an awful lot ’o money these 1's. (dyimking lemonade): Dasn't, because I'm afraid high-toned travelers waste for drink,” 1-4 fai} through said Uncle Abner, as he laid down his newspaper. “A man who'll pay a Licut LiIreRATURE—Gas bills. hundred dollars for a saloon passage to ees England, when he can go in the steer- A ROLL oF MERIT—One light and wholesome. age for twenty, is a slave to rum—that's what I say!" ” S RY-GOODS CLERK: Can I show you any- thing more to-day, lady ? Lapy: Yes; I wish you \ would show me that umbrella \\ I left here three weeks ago. \ HILE waiting for Miss Clara, young Jobhams- ford, whose legs might be called the “ Hogarth” style, owing CATS-ABIANCA. to their peculiar line of beauty, stood before the cheerful a grate fire, enjoying its hospitable warmth and comfort. Sa 2 S ctaeeeeet ee nes cksae te roa F " This is a nice fire, Bobby,” he said, “tit burns so briskly.” Bootjacks, bottles, stools and bricks, the neighbors wild did fire, Tt ought to,” responded Bobby, “ with such a draught.” But he his chops did calmly lick and loudly yelled ‘* Ma-ri-a 1” comicbooks.com