Life, 1890-07-31 · page 11 of 16
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# Life Magazine Page 53 - Satirical Humor This page contains four separate comedic sketches: 1. **"Not the Right Kind of Bait"** - A conversation between passengers about sharks in the harbor, playing on fear of sea travel. 2. **"Au Revoir"** - A dinner scene aboard an ocean liner where a gentleman apologizes for an awkward comment, satirizing social etiquette among upper-class travelers. 3. **"Out of Her Element"** - A husband-wife joke about a wife who "sang like an angel," suggesting she should wait for heaven—dark humor about marital discord. 4. **"The Lost Eyeglasses"** - A three-panel comic strip showing a man searching for his glasses at a desk, likely a slapstick visual gag about misplaced objects. 5. **"I Never Accept Presents"** - A social satire about gift-giving etiquette. The humor targets early 20th-century middle and upper-class social conventions and domestic life.
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* LIFE: 53 NOT THE RIGHT KIND OF BAIT. “QU ALLY: Captain Shufites says the harbor is full of sharks, and 1 am awfully afraid of them, aren’t you? CLARICE: Oh, I'm not afraid. The captain told me that they were all man- eating sharks, AU REVOIR. ABOARD AN OCEAN LINER, \AJ_K. ST. MARK (leaving the table in the midst of dinner with a thought- + ful and pallid air): Au revoir. “he Lapy Opposite: Au revoir. GENTLEMAN (of an explanatory turn of mind, to lady): Ex madam; he did not say that to you, he said that to his dinner. USTOMER: Will you give me a sample of this, please ? CLERK: Very sorry, ma’am, but we don’t give samples any more. CusroMER: Well, then, I'll take enough for a bathing suit. OUT OF HER ELEMENT. We: My friends used to tell me I ang like an angel. Hunpy that's the case, why don’t you wait until you get to heaven ? comicbooks.com