Life, 1888-11-22 · page 7 of 14
Life — November 22, 1888 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 289 This page contains several unrelated satirical pieces typical of early Life magazine's format: **"Attended To"** mocks a milkman's complaint about unpaid debts—a working-class creditor problem. **"A Settlement"** presents a debt negotiation where Jones converts Smith's obligation into a gift, satirizing how debtors rationalize money owed. **"Too Much"** shows Mrs. Dacky complaining to Mrs. Grogan about losses—a husband and two coats—portraying the domestic frustrations of ordinary women. The remaining sections—"The Effect of Stone Upon Cloth," "Geographical Information," "What They Think of Each Other," and "A Trait of Childhood"—are brief humor pieces about various social observations, domestic dynamics, and children's behavior. The small illustrations accompanying these pieces are generic comic vignettes rather than political commentary. This page exemplifies Life's mid-period format: scattered domestic humor targeting middle-class anxieties.
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289 ATTENDED TO. <MITH (fo milkman) : I'll have to ask you to chalk it up. MILKMAN (adstractedly): Oh, that's all been attended to—oh—er—beg your pardon; cer- tainly, take your own time. A SETTLEMENT. MITH: Say, Jones, give me a couple of dollars, will you ? Jones: Certainly. SMITH: Thanks. That will make four 1 owe you. Jones: You will owe me nothing. I mean that you are to keep the two dollars you bor- rowed a year ago as a gift. PERUVIAN bark is as bad as its bite. THE EFFECT OF STONE UPON CLOTH. TOO MUCH. “\AN YEZ LOOKS OUT O' SORTS THIS MORNIN’, Mrs. Dacey. ‘AN’ ENOUGH TO MAKE ME, Mrs. GRocaN, Last WEEK I LOST ME HUs- RAN' AND THIS WERK TWO GOATS. THE LOSS OF THE OULD MAN WAS PRETTY KAD, BUT GOATS 1S HIGH IN PRICE, Mrs, GROGAN y HIGH! Our Recent Actors. By Westland Marstoa, Vol. 1. (in two jvols.), Boston: Roberts Brothers. Cousin Bette. By Honoré de Balzac, Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Vow toa: Roberts Brothers. Miss Parle wv Cook Book. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. La Reve. By Emile Zola, Philadelpbia: T. B, Peterson & Brothers. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. EACHER: Willie, what is the Capital of Canada? WILLIE: The money taken there by United States financiers and boodlers. WHAT THEY THINK OF EACH OTHER. gs wrt is the difference between the allopaths and the homao- paths?” asked Mrs. Cumso of her husband. “Oh.” he replied, “the allopaths think the homcopaths are not ortho-docs.”” A TRAIT OF CHILDHOOD. ee p* said Bobby, who was reading the signs from an clevated train, “why do children cry for Catcher's Pastoria?" FATHER (¢mmersed in his paper): Because children are always crying for something they don’t need. comicbooks.com