Life, 1889-12-12 · page 6 of 16
Life — December 12, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 330 This page contains several humorous anecdotes and sketches rather than a political cartoon. The top section discusses why December is the wrong month for "The Goat"—likely referencing a zodiac column or seasonal humor about goats being unsuitable for winter activities. The sketches illustrate brief comedic scenarios: "A Hasty Conclusion" shows someone misinterpreting a crowded room, "In Kentucky" presents a Civil War reference (mentioning Yorktown's surrender, likely the 1781 Revolutionary War battle), and other vignettes depict everyday social confusion—a man interrupting a train, a mother destroying old love letters before her daughter's wedding. The bottom sketch, "Necessary Preparations," illustrates the caption about destroying old letters during wedding preparations. These are light social satire about human misunderstandings and domestic situations rather than political commentary.
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* LIFE: UST why The Goat should have been chosen to preside over the destinies of December neither our goat contem- poraries nor the Zodiac sharps have ever seen fit to divulge. Bock beer is out of season, the circus poster no longer adorns the walls, the Harlem precipices are too slippery for agree- able goat exercise, and the tomato can is even less esculent, juicy and inviting than at any other season of the year. We shall simply have to set it down to the innate cussedness of the ancients, who arranged the seasons to suit their own selfish fancies and with- out any regard to the convenience of posterity. A HASTY CONCLUSION. APPLICANT (sadly, to proof-reader): 1 see you are all full here. PROOF-READER: Oh, come in; don’t be discour- aged. You mustn't judge everything by the waste- paper basket and the City Editor. Wa uasn NECESSARY PREPARATIONS, Visitor: 1 SUPPOSE YOUR DAUGHTER 1S BUSILY PRE- PARING FOR HER WEDDING, Mother: YES; SHE 1S UP IN HER ROOM NOW, DESTROY- ING ALL HER OLD LETTERS. IN KENTUCKY, Eastern Savage: ONE OF YOUR PROMINENT CITIZENS ? Col, Blugrass: Yaas, Eastern Savage: KiLLED IN THE WAR? Cot. Blugrass: NO. HE HONESTLY BELIEVED MAjAH SNAPSHOT TO BE A SNIVELING, COWARDLY CUR, AND TOLD HIM SO AT THE COURT MOUSE ONE Day. AN UNFORTUNATE PAUSE. 66 jae half a mind,” said Brown, and then he paused And brushed some dust from off his hat; “Indeed?” quoth Bronson with a smile, “I'd not Have thought you had as much as that.” HE WANTED RAPID TRANSIT. ARMER OATCAKE (on elevated train): 1 wish you'd hurry this thing up; I want to git to Fifty-ninth Street! TRAIN GuaRD (paralyzed): Beg pardon, mister, have you bought the whole road or only leased this car? StRA NGER (2 Philadelphia): What is all this noise and confusion? Has the town gone daft? RESIDENT (fityingly): Why, man, you're way behind the times—we're celebrating—Yorktown has surrendered. 66 TQEGORRA,” said Bridget, as she opened a bottle of cham- pagne for the first t'me, “the blame fool that filled this quart botthle must ‘a’ put twe quarts in instid av wan!" comicbooks.com