Life, 1889-07-18 · page 10 of 16
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# "Love's Artifice" Cartoon Analysis This page from *Life* magazine contains a cartoon titled "Love's Artifice" showing a silhouetted couple in a romantic archway, paired with a sketch of a woman at a cliff edge. The woman says "If the folks are out, there's nothing UP YET, Doc's" and the man responds "TIS CLIFFORD, SINCE I'VE BEEN COMING." The joke appears to concern a couple's romantic rendezvous at a dangerous cliff location. The cartoon satirizes either reckless courting behavior or the woman's casual attitude toward perilous circumstances for romantic purposes. The title "Love's Artifice" suggests the satire targets artificial or contrived romantic gestures. The specific reference to "Doc" remains unclear without additional context.
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BASEBALL BRIEFS. T is stated that Queen Victoria having secured the Earl of Fife’s fortune for one of her grand-daughters, now aspires to marry another to one of the League catchers. Sir Julien Paunceforte has been instructed to re- port on the steps nec- essary in securing a release. IERNAN, right fielder of the —~ New York nine, was PN, recently asked if he would not prefer to be ‘ pitcher? “No,” repli- Ah ed Professor Tiernan 72) dreamily, as a pleasing mile illumined his in- tellectual features, “T / would rather be right than president.” I" is rumored that the Ball-players’ Association is organ- izing a strike. The pitchers are strong- ly in favor of three strikes. * HE Actors’ Athletic Association of America, has organ- ized a ball nine. The members were a little bit weak in base-running but that difficulty has been overcome by laying railroad-ties between the bases and setting up a free Junch counter on the home plate. [= dispatches give the real reason for Henry M. Stanley's unaccountable delay in returning from Central Africa. He bet all his glass-beads and calico on a game between the Congo Picked Nine and King Tzamba's Black Stockings. Stanley had pinned his faith on the pitching of Umslopogaas, but Tzamba’s men got on to Sloppie’s delivery in the third inning, and batted him to the tune of 43t0 11. The explorer has been in pawn ever since, but he has secured another lot of beads from Emin Bey, and is negotiating with a pitcher from the Nyanza district who is said to be a dandy and the owner of three new curves. Metcalfe. LOVE'S ARTIFICE. TUS Chil Poko 5 —— SVOICE 4p fb FOLKS PF £VLR, If THE pa CL fORD. ouT : ARE ie . J, uP u COODORE STARIN, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Glen Island, has managed to invest that charming spot with a new interest. He has issued a little pamphlet giving the details of the finding of a mysterious treasure- chest in the vicinity of Klein Deutschland. The author, a clever newspaper man, does not divulge whether the treasure- chest contained frankfurters, pretzels, or sure-enough dia- monds and rubies, until he has wrought the reader up to a high pitch of desire to visit the cavern where the treasure was found. comicbooks.com