Life, 1890-05-22 · page 11 of 18
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# Page 301 from Life Magazine - Content Analysis This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"An Example Worth Following"**: Critiques the Metropolitan Museum versus the Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, Massachusetts. The text argues the Metropolitan Museum is better managed by "broad-minded" professionals, while Salem's museum suffers from mismanagement by individuals focused on self-promotion rather than public service. 2. **"At Yale"**: A brief dialogue where Smithers declines rowing to study, and the Crew Captain dismisses him as a fool. 3. **"A Woman of Resources"** and **"The Electric Light"**: Comic dialogues with accompanying illustrations satirizing domestic situations and emerging technology (electric lighting), poking fun at social pretensions and generational conflict. The cartoons employ period-typical visual humor and social commentary typical of early 20th-century American satire.
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AN EXAMPLE WORTH FOLLOWING. T may send a thrill of horror down the spine of the Metropolitan Museum to learn that the Museum of the Peabody Academy of Science, at Salem, Massachusetts, is now open to the public on Sunday afternoons. As Salem is the original home of the Puritans, this news will be a cruel blow to the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum, That the Salem trustees are moved to this step by a desire to debauch the public is a theory that will not be universally ac- cepted. The obvious difference between these two insti- tutions is that one is controlled by a body of benevolent and liberal-minded men in honest sympathy with the working public, while the other is under the unfortunate management of a handfull of individuals whose admiration for their own piety is out of all proportion to their usefulness. AT YALE. MITHERS (who has been selected to row on the University eight): 1 am sorry, Captain, but I don’t think I will row this year. I am going to study, and study hard. CAPTAIN OF THE CREW: Indeed! Well, I want you to stop this d——n fooling and get into that boat ! Smithers gets. A WOMAN OF RESOURCES. OET (¢# despair): Wife, the wolf is at the door, What shall we do? Port's WIFE: Go upon the second floor, lasso him with the clothes-line, and we'll cook him, Ma Edith (who has been given one of the Edison phonographic Ma! Can't DOLLY SAY MY PRAYERS FOR ME? L THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. dolls) : TAM so SLEEPY, * By Jove! 17's HARD ON A YOUNG BUCK TO BE CUT OUT BY AN OLD FOOL, LIKE THAT.” comicbooks.com