Life, 1890-11-27 · page 5 of 20
Life — November 27, 1890 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 303 This page contains three separate items: 1. **"Getting the Firs Out"** and **"Struck Out"**: Poetry snippets about autumn and cricket, unrelated to satire. 2. **"Pictorial Shakespeare"**: A sketch from *Henry IV* showing a plague victim being stabbed—illustrating a famous scene. 3. **"A Valuable Man"** and **"A Matter of Emphasis"**: Two anecdotes about deception. The first describes a gas company employee who secretly stole from meters for months before being made a director. The second cartoon (bottom) depicts a singing teacher rejected by a student, then hired after the same rejection is reframed as prestigious endorsement—satirizing how perception and marketing can transform the identical fact into opposite valuations. The page blends literary and social humor without obvious political commentary.
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GETTING THE FIRS OUT. HE valleys now look cold and bare, Filled with dead leaves and burrs, The mountain tops alone scem fair Clad in their green-hued furs. STRUCK OUT. OOLAHAN (out late, to pass- ing stranger): And phwat's the toime, sir? STRANGER (suspicious, knocks Hoolahan down): \t just struck one, HOOLAHAN (bewildered): Be- gorra, oime glad oi didn’t ax yez an hour ago. ~LIFE-: PICTORIAL SHAKESPEARE. A PLAGUE UPON SUCH BACKING ! Henry IV. (Part), Hay 4 303 A VALUABLE MAN. <TRAWBER: That was a pretty good trick that was played on a gas company in Chi- cago. A fellow out there discon- nected his meter, put a rubber tube around it, and for months they didn’t discover that he had been robbing them, SINGERLY: What did they do with him then ? STRAWBER: They made him one of the directors of the company. A GREEK DRESSING—The Sack of Troy. Sloper (as Miss Eastlake, his intended, finishes a sok): Duncan (who has been rejected by Miss Eastlake): YES. A MATTER OF EMPHASIS. Wat a voice! What a voice! comicbooks.com