Life, 1889-10-17 · page 7 of 18
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 217 **Main Content: "Queen Victoria" Portrait** The large photograph labeled "Life's Gallery of Beauties No. 26" depicts Queen Victoria. The accompanying text satirizes her work securing advantageous marriages for her children and grandchildren throughout European nobility, describing this as her "principal function" and suggesting it ensures future British influence across the continent. **Small Cartoon: "A Little Fresh Heir"** The bottom cartoon shows an elderly man (appears to be Parrot, based on OCR text) with a young scapegoat, illustrating the accompanying proverb: "Remember, my boy, that time is money." The joke plays on the boy being called a "scapegoat" while learning frugality—a pun on both his role and the proverb about efficient time management.
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QUEEN VICTORIA, HIS well-known lady is now filling the position of Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India. She probably draws larger wages for the amount of work she does than any other person of her sex, age and weight in the world. She has few of the vices of wo- men, and her late husband was never heard to make any complaints concern- ing the quality of her mince pies, or to remark that her doughnuts were not up to his mother’s standard of doughnut architecture, Neither is it on record that he ever came home and had to sit down to a cold dinner because his wife had been spending the day at a meeting of the Dorcas Society. Her principal function for the past few years has been the securing of hus- bands and wives for her numerous off- spring and their progeny to the third and fourth generation, In this work. she has successfully rav- aged every royal family in Europe, and the supply from this source having given out, she has begun to gather in the mem- bers of the English nobility and gentry. If the fertility of her family keeps up, there is no reason why every inhabitant of the British Isles should not soon be connected by marriage with the reigning family. She also has the honor of being the mother of her eldest son, a fact she contemplates with much satisfaction every time that gentleman is obliged to appeal to the English people to pay his debts. Every year that she lives she keeps the Prince of Wales just that much longer out of a fat job, and so far as heard from he has not yet sent her any large quantities of Dr. Brown-Sequard’s Elixir of Life. If Queen Victoria lives until a year from the twenty-fourth of next May she will be seventy-two years of age, which proves conclusively that she is no chicken. ALITTLE FRESH HEIR. LIFE'S GALLERY OF BEAUTIES. No, 26. QUEEN VICTORIA. A PROVERB WELL INDORSED. ae REMEMBER, my boy, that time is money, and you must use it to the best advantage,” said old Parrott to his nephew, at the conclusion of an hour's harangue. “I will try to,” replied the scapegrace. And as he looked at the kind old man’s fifty-dollar check in the hallway, he murmured: “ Eighty-three cents a minute; that hour’s been well employed !" comicbooks.com