Life, 1890-09-11 · page 7 of 18
Life — September 11, 1890 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine contains two distinct sections: **Upper left**: Book reviews and quotations about women's nature and passion, reflecting early 20th-century literary discourse. **Main illustration**: "The Chimes at Midnight" depicts a domestic scene with women in a conservatory or sitting room with plants. The caption reads, "I call Mr. Bohr my sin now; he's sure to find me out," suggesting romantic intrigue or social scandal—likely satirizing upper-class courtship rituals and the constraint women faced in proper society. **Lower section**: A humorous domestic dialogue between a mother and son "Frank" about vacation preparations, where she insists he pack a toothbrush. This satirizes the friction between maternal concern and youthful impatience—a timeless family comedy. The page targets genteel society's social conventions and family dynamics through gentle satire rather than sharp political commentary.
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tion to which women treat the men they habitually deceive.” “Women are bourgeoise in their judgments of each other.” “One thing I have learned! Passion is patient.” “ Money means freedom, and freedom is power.” DProch. NEW BOOKS. TO MODERN WOMEN. By Kate Gannett Wells." Phila- delphia: J. B Lippincott Company. “O Thou. My Austria.” By Ossip Schubin.” Translated by Mra. A.L Wister | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. At An Old Chateau, arine 'S. MacQuoid. Harper and Brothers. The Courting of Dinah Shadd. hy Rudyard Kipling. New Vork: Harper and Brothers. The Entaited Hat. Alfred Townsend Harper and Brothers By Kath- New York: By George New York: MAN AND NATURE. UTUMN'S here again, and soon will come the sad and mournful day When the dude must fold his blazer up and lay it safe away. Still there's color in the land- scape; what he doffs the forests don, For the oaksand maples now begin to put their blazers First Girl (proudly): Our BARY CAN SAY Pa AND Ma, Second Girl: Dats NUFFIN, My cousiN, WoT's RICH, US GOT 'ER WAX ONE WOT KIN DO DAT. “TL CALL Mk. BOHR MY SIN NOW; HE'S SUKE 10 FIND ME OUT.” THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. “NH, Mr. Smithers, you are not one of those fickle young men who ‘love and ride away. “Indeed, Iam not, Arabella,” said he, earnestly. “And yet,” continued the maiden, cruelly, “ and yet they run all night trains on the elevated.” OTHER (¢o small son going to the country): will need ? FRANK: Yes'm. MoTHER: Have you your tooth-brush ? FRANK (very indignantly): Tooth-brush! Why, I thought I was going away for a vacation. Frank, have you taken everything you comicbooks.com