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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page (Volume XVII, Number 419) This page contains theatrical humor and satirical sketches rather than political commentary. The main items include: **"A Fact"** — jokes about theatrical managers' spending priorities: one spends too much on costumes, another too little on actors. **"A Risky Proceeding"** — dialogue about breaking ice while skating with Diana Phayre (apparently an actress). **"A Wiser Mary"** — a poem about a girl in the McKinley era who could sell wool and buy a sealskin instead of keeping a lamb. **"Ah, Me! Conditione!"** — a father-son conversation about exam performance and conditions versus theory. **Illustrations** depict humorous winter scenes: people falling through ice and emerging from water. The humor is domestic and physical rather than politically targeted.
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VOLUME XVII. A FACT. IRST THEATRICAL MANAGER: Stock companies make this mistake: They spend too much money on costumes, and too little on the actors, SECOND THEATRICAL MAN- AG When, as a matter of fact, if they didn’t spend a cent for costumes, they'd always have packed houses. A RISKY PROCEEDING. & S° you love Diana Phayre! Have you ever given her a hint of it?” “Well, | tried to break the ice the other day, but I’m afraid I chose an inopportune moment.” « When was it?” “When I was out skating with her.” THE TIME AND PLACE. LARA: Oh, I have so much to say to you. Maupe: And Itoyou. Let's go to the opera to-night. The Congregation on the bank: \WUA'S DE MATTAHM, PAHSON ? De Lorp Han MERCY! SIMPSING TER SLIP UNDER DE Ice! Parson Dippem (excitedly) : THE RETURN FROM THE “AN' WHAT ARE TIHEY DOIN’ NOW “On, MiRIAR; 1's Just Too 5 IS MAIR LIKE EVERYTHINK [" 1 “Lowep bd B | f 5 ° NUMBER 419. WEDDING. NDID FOR ANYTHINK. » A LEANIN' HER HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER AND IS A Brother Simpson (as he emerges a mite below): EF DAT ICE HAD ER MIN MORE’N’R FOOT THICK I'D NELBER BEEN ABLE TER BREAK FRO! IT IN DIS WORLD A WISER MARY. F Mary had her little lamb In these McKinley days, She'd surely know cnough to sell What wool the sheep could raise, And with the product of its back, Buy for her sacque ! own a sealskin “AH, ME! CONDITIONE!” ELL, my son,” said “Vy the father, glancing proudly into the face of his son who had just returned for the Christmas vacation, “how did you get along in your exami- nations?" “Father,” responded the young man, seriously, “in the words of Grover Cleveland, it is a condition, and not a theory, that confronts me.” THIS IS REALISM. “ARAWAY: I see that Howells has frowned on Rudyard Kipling. Hooks: Howells? Howells, anyhow ? Who's MAN OF NOTE—The musician. Fo’ pe Lawn, comicbooks.com