Life, 1890-01-23 · page 5 of 18
Life — January 23, 1890 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page announces Miss Sadie's return to America—apparently a notable entertainer or socialite whom Life magazine had covered before. The article describes her meetings with prominent figures during her absence, including Albert Edward (likely Edward VII, then Prince of Wales) and Colonel Elliot F. Shepard. The satire centers on her romanticized foreign travels and high-society encounters contrasted with mundane domestic realities. The "Annual Out-Door Games of the Hester Street Amateur Athletic Association" illustration mocks lower-class street life in immigrant neighborhoods—the contrast implying satire about class differences in American society. The overall tone satirizes both the pretensions of society women and the urban social landscape of early 1900s America, typical of *Life* magazine's satirical approach to contemporary American life and manners.
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SHE'S HOME AGAIN! Life’s Greatest Enterprise. Our Peerless Sadie Baats the Record. She Meets Some Noted People and Ob- serves Some Strange Occurrences. —Life Is a Great Journal. MISS SADIE, BEFORE STARTING. About three o'clock yesterday $ morning, just as our staff was working to get the Chinese edition of Lire to press, a dull roar was heard coming up West Twenty-third Street. The staff rushed to the windows as one man. Imagine our pride and joy when we distinguished a crowd of distinguished citi- zens, shouting themselves hoarse with cheers for Lire and Sadie McGinty. On a shutter borne on the shoulders of Chauncey M, Depew, Ward McAllister, William M. Evarts and Jay Gould” stood the brave girl, her now-fa- mous sachel in her hand and a smile of conscious merit on her face, Preceding her were three hand-organs, playing ‘! Home Again” in unison, As the crowd stopped in front of Lire office, loud huzzas rent the skies and then rented the buildings across the street. REN SY MEETS ALBERT EDWARD. MISS SADIE AND THE G. O. M. Kissing her hand to the crowd, Sadie leaped | gracefully from the shutter and through the portals of the office. Immediately on her ar- rival in the sanc- tum three editorial writers pri marriage, which propositions Miss Sadie now has un- der consideration. very laugh rattled through her pearly teeth. “How do you like America, Miss Sadie ?" we asked. “Much — better than Chicago,” she replied; ‘but it really doesn't com- pare with Harlem, My trip from the latter place to the Battery was one | complete ovation. 1 reached Hester Street just in time to witness the | annual _ out-door | games. They were not very exciting, |as only four men |and a policeman | were killed.” - - “Did you use any of the letters of introduc- tion which you took away with you ?” “As Leame through Baxter Street I learned that Col. Elliot F, Shepard was giving a re- ception to the Prince of Wales at McClos- key's Hall. Remembering that I had a letter of introduction from Russell Harrison, I pre- sented it. We sat together three hours in the conservatory, and he assured me that just as soon as he could go to Chicago and secure a divorce from the Princess he would ask me to be his, provided Lire would pay his SNS ind how is Russ? and what a dear, dear | fellow he is!" said the Prince, turning to me impulsively. ‘And, my dear Miss Sadie, you | must not fail to stop at Paradise Park and see Mr. Gladstone.’ ; “1 thought this a good suggestion and stop- | ped off. The Grand Old Man had been ad- vised of my coming and went through the usual business of permitting me to surprise |him cutting down a property tree with a | papier-macké axe.” “Did you have any conversation with “Oh, yes; he said a number of brilliant things, but I discovered afterward that they were stolen from ‘Robert Elsmere’ and Marie Bashkirtseff’s Journal. As I left him 4] he pressed my hand and shouted after me, ‘Erin go Bragh !"" For the benefit of those interested in our cocseiag mai we would state that the exact | time of Miss Sadie's return was 3.35.36 A.M. At the request of many of Lire's readers— our circulation last week being 100,000,001, copies—we have concluded to give Miss Sadie a public reception, where they may have the pleasure of meeting the courageous little lady in person. We have engaged the Metropolitan Opera House for that purpose, Owing to other engagements, Mr. Ward McAllister will | not be able to act as Master of Ceremonies, but Mr. John L. Sullivan has kindly consented |to act in that capacity, Carriages will ap- | proach by Eleventh Avenue and no wine will served after6.M. For the convenience of the Four Hundred, Colonel Shepard will allow the Fifth Avenue stages to run all night. Babies in arms will not be admitted unless in ANNUAL OUT-DOOR GAMES OF THE HESTER STREET AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. full evening dress and accompanied by adults. | Come one, come all ! MISS SADIE, AFTER RETURNING, comicbooks.com