Life, 1889-10-31 · page 7 of 18
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 245 This page contains several brief satirical sketches rather than a single cartoon. The main illustrated piece, "A Natural Anxiety," depicts two men on horseback, with one asking if the other has seen his wife riding out—humorously suggesting marital anxiety about a wife's independence or whereabouts. Other sections include "A Sufferer" (mocking baby photographers), "They Have to Hustle" (joking that married men lack leisure), and "A Difference in Degree" (a poem about fish and fowl). The top section, "The Wise Men in Council," discusses Episcopal convention debates, satirizing serious religious deliberation as pedantic word-parsing. The cartoons mock domestic life, gender relations, and institutional pomposity typical of early 20th-century American satire—themes readily understandable today despite period-specific references.
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THE WISE MEN IN COUNCIL. [782 trite unkind in the daly papers to report in detail the discussions at the Episcopal convention, ‘There is something deeply impressive in these sit- tings, and the New York press should have more re- spect for solemn things. A few days’ heated argu- ment over the advisability of substituting the expres- sion ‘may be" for ** might be,” or the” for "it," is just what these gentlemen are selected for. There may be scoffers who think there is more form than religious feeling in all this, but the following extract demonstrates their ability to settle down to serious business when occasion demands : A delegate asked to have the phrase And at the last into the glorious estate of Thy chosen saints in Heaven struck out, on the ground that it was a rayer for the dead, " [Voices, “Oh, no, it’s not,” and laughter.) Much ‘discussion ensued, one delegate protesting against ‘putting conundrums to a poor sick man on his dying bed,” when it was moved that all amendments proposed, including that of the Rev. Father Hall, be Taid on the table, which was agreed to by a rising vote of 116 to 98. OUNGHUSBAND: I didn't know you were to have company to-day, my dear. Mrs, YOUNGHUSBAND; The servant's sis- ter called and staid to luncheon. She's now in the parlor, playing the piano. EGINALD DUDEKIN: Ah, I say, old man, what's all this talk about a four- hundredth anniversary ? PETIT DE PEYSTER: Weally, now, I don't just know, you know, Fahncy it’s something McAllister’s getting up. AFTERNOON. A SUFFERER, —T. PETER: Who is it this time? PaGE: A photographer—he says he made a specialty of taking photographs of babies. St. PETER (/eelingly): Show the sufferer in. Mrs, Tathill: A NATURAL ANXIETY. 1 SAW YOUR WIFE OUT RIDING WITH ANOTHER MAN THIS Mr, Tubbs (excitedly): You pip! Dip THEY HAVE MY HORSE? THEY HAVE TO HUSTLE. ~IMERAL: That adage * Marry in haste, and repent at leisur all bosh, Mappox: Why? SIMERAL: Because married men have no leisure. A DIFFERENCE IN DEGREE. HERE'S nothing new under the sun, they say, In fish, or in fowl, or flesh— But he who'll run up to college to-day Will find there is much that is fresh. T EACHER: Anonymous means without a name; write a sentence showing you under- stand how to use the word. SMALL GIRL (wrétes): “Our new baby is anonymous.” “[CBERE is no more reason for writing obitu- aries in a dead language than for writing notices of bankruptcy in broken English.