Life, 1890-05-15 · page 11 of 18
Life — May 15, 1890 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 287 This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"A Honeymoon in Eclipse"**: A sketch mocking a couple's wedding tour. A man complains his wife won't enjoy the trip due to her horror of people staring at newlyweds in public—satirizing Victorian anxieties about marital visibility and propriety. 2. **"After Sunday School"**: A cartoon showing a woman and child, where the child has received a whistle from her teacher. The satire targets how Sunday school instruction supposedly encouraged children to make noise and cause household disruption. 3. **"A Natural Supposition"**: A brief joke about dime museum advertisements for "Phantom Hens," with the punchline that they must lay ghosts—poking fun at fraudulent or absurd carnival attractions common in the era. All three pieces use humor to critique social conventions and commercial deception.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
- LIFE: Victim: But, at the worst, that’s only burglary; and if you kill me, it’s murder. BURGLAR. But, if 1 kill you, you can’t testify against me for burglary, see? And if they find out who killed you, | don’t have to swing for it. Our friends at Albany, to get the support of the Burglars’ Union, and the money of the Electric- lighting Companies, have abolished hanging for murder. I guess you'll have to go. my friend. (Quée/ly murders the VICTIM, and departs to enjoy the spoils in peace.) A HONEYMOON IN ECLIPSE. “MR. DiGay TOLD ME HE DIDN'T ENJOY HIS WEDDING TOUR, QUEER SORT OF STATE MENT, WASN'T IT?” Why, No, AUNTIE; NOT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES.” What po you MEAN?” “WELL, You See MRS. DIGRY HAD SUCH A HORROR OF PEOPLE TAKING DiGRYyAND HER FOR A BRIDAL COUPLE THAT SHE TOOK A CHAPERONE ALONG,’ OO) Clepe.ey AFTER SUNDAY SCHOOL. NEW WHsT! ERE YOU MAKING A NOISE WITH IT 2” ‘Xo, 1 GUESS SHE WANTED If FOR WO LITTLE BROTHER.” A. 0. T. 1506. 4 !RST MESS: j3ER BOY: i say, yer there, wat fur yer run- nin’ down the street just now ? SECOND MESSENGER Boy: Ah, come off! Some bloke guv me a push and started me a runnin’ and | wuz too lazy to stop. See? A NATURAL SUPPOSITION. ED: One of the dime museums. advertises a Phantom Hen. NED: What does she do? TED: Lays ghosts, I suppose. comicbooks.com