Life, 1890-02-06 · page 10 of 18
Life — February 6, 1890 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains three satirical pieces from *Life* magazine: 1. **"Ideas Differ"** - A cartoon mocking dogs' limited intelligence, contrasting human superiority with animal foolishness. 2. **"The Parting of the Hare; Or, the Jackrabbit Bears Out His Argument"** - A dialogue between a hare and a jackrabbit debating intelligence. A gentleman figure observes their argument about whether a rabbit is "a gall" (insult). The satire targets pretentious human debate by showing animals outmaneuvering a well-dressed man through wit. 3. **"An Ineradicable Impression"** - A dialogue between French aristocrats (De la Crème and Count D'Aubigny). The joke reveals that despite D'Aubigny's current wealth and social status, he was formerly a street-car conductor—suggesting nouveau-riche embarrassment and social mobility's comic contradictions in early 20th-century America.
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80 - LIFE: It's entirely a matter of point of view. Do you think I'd be such a fork-legged lump— Such a bald-skinned, petty-eared error as you? What do you know of a thirty-foot jump? Ob! you ‘‘take it out in superior brains!" That's good—if you've got em! But then, you see, I've discovered on these Colorado plains That /egs are quite brainy enough for me! IDEAS DIFFER. First Tramp: 1 DON'T SEE WHAT GOOD DOGS 18 ANYIIOW! Second Tramp: NoR 1—11'd BE A GOOD THING IF THEY wuz DONE AWAY WITH ALTOGETHER ! THE PARTING OF THE HARE; Or, THE JackRraBBir Bears Our His ARGUMENT. H? ‘How did I know that you hadn't a gun?” Pooh! Ask me a harder one, Mr. Man! My conscience told me—did you ever have one? Not likely—you're built on the human plan! Oho! So you hink I've ‘‘a gall for a jack— A donkey-eared rabbit—to tal abuse To the biped king?” I might answer you back That the biped’s only a featherless goose ! Superior nothing! Aha! Look a-there! That grizzly comes timely to point my tale! You just wished for a gun that would bang the hare, But now that it’s ** Hang the Bear!" you are pale! Now / need no arms—d'you observe these heels? He'd have his appetite for his run! But I hate to disturd a bear at his meals— So good-bye, King that is slave to a gun! Charles F. Lummis. AN INERADICABLE IMPRESSION. E LA CREME: My dear D'Aubigny, you are too diffident. You are rich, talented, titled—you might shine in society. Count D'AuBiGny: I detest society—that is, I detest— I hate women! De LA CREME: You amaze me! An unfortunate afaire du caur? Count D'Ausicny (fiercely): Reginald, you will un- derstand me when I tell you that before I came into my fortune and title I was a street-car conductor. é comicbooks.com