Life, 1889-11-07 · page 11 of 16
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# Page 263 - Life Magazine Analysis This page contains two satirical pieces: **Top image**: "Jack Frost Catches Mr. Potato Out" depicts a small figure confronting a large potato character, illustrating the phrase "getting along in your profession" through a dialogue where someone boasts of progressing from policeman to night watchman to bank robber. **Bottom section**: "A Tale of Misdirected Philanthropy" uses three sequential cartoon panels to satirize well-intentioned but misguided charity. A woman gives a broken pitcher to a poor boy to "throw in the ash barrel"; a man gives a quarter to buy another pitcher, which the boy's mother will beat him with upon his return home. The final panel shows the boy at a bakery, suggesting the charity had unintended consequences. The satire critiques charity that doesn't address actual needs.
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JACK FROST CATCHES MR. POTATO OUT. IRST THESPIAN: So old Hevyvillan has gone tothe ‘* ELL, how are you getting along in your profes- poor-house? sion?” SECOND THESPIAN: Yes, he'll feel at home there, too. “First rate. I began as a policeman, then I got to be The poor old fellow has been used to poor houses all his night watchman, and now I'm breaking into banks on my life, you know. own account.” A TALE OF MISDIRECTED PHILANTHROPY. “TOMMY, TAKE THIS BROKEN PITCHER “WHAT'S THE MATTER, LITTLE Boy ?”” + Jumaany | T WORKED dat FER ALL IT "D THROW IT IN THE ASH BARREL.” “T BROKE DE PITCHER, AN'MEMOTHER'LL = WAS WUTH,” BEAT ME WHEN ‘ER GIT HOME.” “WELL, HERE 13 A QUARTER. GO AND BUY ANOTHER.” , A comicbooks.com