Life, 1890-06-26 · page 11 of 15
Life — June 26, 1890 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 373 This page contains three separate satirical sketches: 1. **"A Complication"** (top left): A humorous dialogue where a census enumerator asks a woman her marital status. She replies she's "a divorcee by my first husband and a widow by my second"—satirizing the bureaucratic confusion created by women's changing legal statuses through marriage and divorce. 2. **Grocer scene** (middle left): A grocer instructs someone about egg storage, with a price joke about "spring chickens." 3. **"At the Races"** (bottom): A scene at the horse races where a man named Ralph admits to losing money and having an "inside pocket" too large—satirizing gambling losses and financial embarrassment among the leisure class. The illustrations use period-appropriate dress and social settings typical of early 20th-century American life.
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A COMPLICATION. NUMERATOR: Married or single ? MADAME: = Married—twice. ENUMERATOR: Husband living or dead? MADAME: My first husband is living. The second one is dead, ENUMERATOR: Come, come, Madame, no trifling. MADAME: I'm not trifling, I ama di- vorcée by my first husband and a widow by my second. “Grocer: Hey, JOUNNY, DiDS'T 1 TELL You NOT TO PUT THAT BOX OP EGGS IN THE SUN? JUST TAKE THAT SIGN DOWN AND PUT UP ‘SPRING CHICK ENS, TWO FOR A QUARTER.” “WHO ARE YOU WRITING TO, DARLING?" “TAM THANKING MR, BELMAN FOR THOSE CANDIES, YOU NEVER BUY ANY Now 2" “CANT AFFORD 11." How 1s 17, MY DEAR, YOU USED TO A WHILE aco,” , BUT YOUK FATHER BOUGHT YOUR BONNETS THEN.” AT THE RACES. HEY were at the Suburban, and the horses were at the post for the last event. He approached her hesitatingly. “Mary,” he said, “you will have to pay the car-fare home: | have had my pocket picked down there in that crowd again, confound it!” Takers, “Oh, Ralph,” she replied, “It's all my fault. Matron; You Pre: E VE FOND OF ” © Matron: YOU APPEAR TO RE VERY FOND sr vest too large: YOUR LITTLE PLAYMATE, IT IS PLEASANT TO SEE ‘ell pleased with tt si hat SUCH LOVE AMONO CHILDREN. so Well pleased with the incident that he went down The Bigger One: Yes"; we’s cor ex resxy and invited a defunct book-maker who had been a friend of his to a To SPEND. boiled cha npagne supper. Tom Hall, I knew I made that comicbooks.com