Life, 1890-08-28 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page (Volume XVI, Number 400) This page contains several unrelated humorous sketches typical of Life's satirical format: **"Two Yesterdays"** (top right): A romantic poem contrasting yesterday's pleasant seaside walk with today's engagement happiness. **"That Would Be Heavenly"**: A joke about an afterlife with hair growth, playing on Victorian-era vanity about facial hair. **"Undeceived at Last"**: A barber-customer exchange where the customer admits mistaking dandruff for brains—a crude insult joke. **Political reference** (center): A single-line critique: "What the country needs is protection from the Protectionists"—likely satirizing tariff/trade policy debates of the era. **Bottom cartoons**: Humorous domestic scenes, including one about a safety bicycle and another about inferior cigars. The page reflects typical turn-of-century American humor: personal vanity, class humor, and light political commentary.
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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 400. THAT WOULD BE HEAVENLY. He (Class of ‘9p: Dib You eAM THAT ASTONISHING DISCOV- ERWY THEY'VE MADE, THAT HAIR GRWOWS AFTER DEATH? She: O, In Heaves! I'M so GLAD. MAYRE YOU'LL HAVE A MOUSTACHE “GREAT SCOTT! OLD FELLOW, WHAT'S THE MATTER?” ‘\ BEEN RIDING A SAFETY BICYCLE.” TWO YESTERDAYS. WALKED with her beside the sea, And such sweet nothings did I say, fhe time passed all too rapidly— Ah, what a happy yesterday ! We've just returned—another stroll, My feclings why should I display Since I have reached the wished-for goal 2— Ah, what a happy ‘tyes" to-day ! Nathan M. Levy. UNDECEIVED AT LAST. BARBER: Your head is full of dandruff, sir. Customer: I'm glad you told me, I was under the impression that it was brains. Wt the country needs is protection_from the Pro- tectionists. “THIS CIGAR ISN'T AS GOOD AS YOU USUALLY OFFER A FELLOW.” “No? It's OUT OF THE HOX YOU GAVE ME.” comicbooks.com