Life, 1890-04-17 · page 11 of 18
Life — April 17, 1890 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 231 **Top Cartoon ("Foresight"):** A social scene depicting a woman who has forgotten her housemaid at home alone. The joke centers on Victorian-era anxieties about domestic servants: the woman worries the maid will starve, but more importantly, she left a can of condensed milk on the kitchen table—implying the servant might consume it, a perceived threat to household provisions and class boundaries. **Bottom Section ("Good Training"):** Features dialogue between a landlady and actor. The actress claims she stayed late perfecting her role as the "lean and hungry Cassius" (referencing Shakespeare's *Julius Caesar*). The humor suggests she's actually been unable to afford proper meals, conflating theatrical character preparation with genuine poverty—satirizing struggling actors' precarious economic circumstances.
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Fi a On, Horrors ! ‘ORESIGHT. WHAT 1S IT, DARLING ? 1 FORGOT ALL ABOUT HOOK PUSSY, LEFT IN THE HOUSE ALONE, AND WE OFF FOR A WEEK SHELL STARVE, O, | REMESIRERED HER, 1 LEFT A CAN OF CONDENSED MILK ON THE KITCHEN TARLE WITH A SARDINE OPENER BESIDE IT, when professional musicians join together in a business movement they are more apt to go astray than is the average trades-union. The fight against the organ- grinders and the defeat of the musicians was one good illustration of this fact, and the latest is the pig-headed opposition to the admission to the United States of Strauss’s orchestra. Popular concerts with good music are too infrequent in this country, and the importation of the Strauss orchestra bids fair to give New York a delightful musical feature during the coming Summer. Therefore it is devoutly tobe hoped that the American musicians who are so anxious to bar them out will be beaten in their effort Metcalfe. GOOD TRAINING. Loxpeapy (to actor) : And you are going to leave me? “Yes. I only meant to stay until I perfected myself in the part Lam going to play this evening.” “What part is that, pray?” The ‘lean and hungry Cassius.’ BEAR, AND FORDEAR. | comicbooks.com