Life, 1889-01-31 · page 5 of 18
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# Page 61 Analysis: "Life" Magazine **"To Him; To Her"** (top left): A romantic poem by Irving S. Underhill about lovers in a hammock, with Cupid overhead. This is sentimental verse, not satire. **"Bliss Deferred"** (top right): A social cartoon showing two men (appears to be a father and suitor) discussing marriage prospects. The dialogue satirizes Victorian courtship conventions—the father warns against hasty marriage, insisting the young man prove himself suitable through financial success and character before courting his daughter. This mocks the era's formal, mercenary approach to matrimonial negotiations. **"A Time When Money Is No Object"**: A brief anecdote satirizing a clerk's poor judgment: he sold a valuable pistol for only two dollars when it could have fetched five. The humor targets financial incompetence. **"Council Bluffs"**: A legal humor section header (incomplete on this page).
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BLISS DEFERRED. “You FORBID ME, THEN, TO CHERISH ANY HOPE OF WINNING YOUR DAUGHTER?” “FOR THE PRESENT, YES. HOWEVER, DO NOT DES- PAIR, MARRY NICELY, DEVOTE YOURSELF TO THE CUL- TURE OF A SON SUITABLE TO SUCH AN ALLIANCE, AND I SEE NO REASON WHY OUR FAMILIES SHOULD NOT BE TO HIM; TO HER. UNITED IN THE FUTURE.” HEY sit in hammock swinging, They watch the heaving ocean, The birds their notes are singing : He swears a life's devotion: CLIQUES. A rustling of the leaves o'erhead A murmuring as the winds pass by IRST PHILADELPHIAN Is Cupid's tread Is Cupid's sigh (leaving summer hotel): Fare- Jo bins to Mims vell, dear, I do hope fate may brin To her, To her, Wee eer oh A rustling of the leaves o'erhead. A murmuring as the winds pass by. us together again in one of our many summer resorts. SECOND PHILADELPHIAN: Yes, His vow to live in hermit’s den, dear. Or if not—why—we may meet (That same old fiction told again) : fai Heaven A broken heart and all the rest Ts Cupid's jest A TIME WHEN MONEY 1S To her; To him, NO OBJECT. A broken heart and all the rest. © ELL,” said Mr. Isaacstein to his clerk as he took off his coat, “how vos peezniss vile 1 vos oud?” “T sold a two-dollar pistol,” replied the clerk. “ Dot vas goot, Jacob—goot.” “De shentleman wanted it to blow his brains oud,” continued Jacob. “Oh!” said Mr. Isaacstein, dubi- ously, “dot vos bad, very bad. He vould haf paid five tollars.” Irving S. Underhill. OUNCIL BLUFFS—Legal tech- nicalities.