Life, 1890-06-26 · page 13 of 15
Life — June 26, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**WHAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS:** This is primarily a **humor and advertising page** from Life magazine. The top half features four separate jokes; the bottom half is mostly advertisements. **THE HUMOR:** 1. "Ye Poor Census Man" - A comic poem where a census taker asks an uncooperative woman personal questions (age, appearance, habits). She refuses to answer until he supposedly dies from frustration—satire on women's privacy and vanity about personal questions. 2. **Jay Gould anecdote** - A brief story mocking wealthy industrialist Jay Gould. The joke: he once marked a penny decades ago hoping to track it; when he finds it again, it's not there, suggesting even his schemes fail. 3. **Clerk and clothes** - Quick joke about an employee wanting time off to buy clothes his boss objects to, implying the boss controls his appearance. 4. **Old Mammy dialect joke** - A stereotypical enslaved/formerly enslaved Black woman prefers Virginia over North Carolina for health reasons, playing on era-typical racial humor. **No political cartoon is visible**—this is chiefly comic anecdotes and period advertising (cigarettes, hats, furniture).
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LIFE Tl oN) At WWLLy YE POOR CENSUS MAN. * PRAY what is your age ?” said ye census man sage, And ye damsel spoke never a word ; * Are you foolish, insane, deaf, humpbacked or lame ?” And she smiled at a thought so absurd, * Do you powder or paint 2" and her smile it grew faint. }o you snore, Miss, and have you cold feet 2" Ye damiosel yet she spake not, you bet, But ye man he lay dead in ye street. —Washington Critic. Wuen Jay Gould was a struggling young surveyor, with hardly ‘one cent to rub against another, he stamped his initials and the date on a copper cent and put it in circulation. Yesterday, Mr. Gould received some pennies in change at the Twenty-third street ferry, and on looking them over he found the coin he had stamped was not among them.—7he World. CLERK IN READY-MADE CLOTHING STORE: me an hour off this afternoon, sir ? PRopRieTOR : What do you want to get off for ? C.: [want to go and buy a suit of clothes.—Boston Courter. Will you please give 375 Mrs. MARGARET E. SANGER tells a good story on herself. Some years ago, a representative of a Brooklyn paper called on her one day and asked for some itenss atout herself, to be included in an article on ** Brooklyn's Literary Women,” It happened to be Mrs. Sangster’ busy morning, so she said, scarcely looking up from her work 1am only an ordinary, commonplace woman ; there is nothing to say about me.” The reporter bowed and withdrew. In about a week the article appeared, and at the end of the list of Brooklyn's famous blues appeared these words: Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster is only an ordinary, commonplace woman ; there is nothing to say about her."—Argonaut. Fercuson: Why did Richard II], offer to give his kingdom for a horse ? McCusick: I don’t know, unless he had once paid cab hire in New York, and thought it would be cheaper to own a horse, no matter what he paid for it, —Zexas Sy/tings. Mr. Isaacs: Vat you learn at school to-day, eh ? SMALL Son: I learned how to combute interest at seven per zent. 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