Life, 1891-03-19 · page 11 of 14
Life — March 19, 1891 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 175 This page contains three satirical cartoons commenting on early 20th-century urban social issues: 1. **"Another Horror"** criticizes the Metropolitan Museum's trustees for not opening Sundays, citing working-class access concerns. It references a Cincinnati Museum experiment reducing admission prices, which increased Sunday visitors from 3,017 to 15,093—arguing cultural institutions should serve working people. 2. **"A Paradox"** uses rural dialogue to satirize how truthfulness is socially devalued, particularly among the upper classes. 3. **"A Point of Etiquette"** depicts a fashionable woman who won't visit new neighbors unless they call first, satirizing rigid social hierarchies and the burden of formal visiting protocols that governed "respectable" society. The cartoons collectively mock class divisions and exclusionary social customs.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Farmer Haystack (on his first trip to New York in forty years): 1 ‘LOW I SHALL FEEL KIND O° SHAKY WHEN I GET To New York, BILLY, CAUSE, YE SEE, I DON'T KNOW NO- BODY THAR’, Billy (late of New York): YeR NEEDN'T FEEL SKEERED ABOUT DAT, BOSS. DER BE A LOT OF NICE LOOKING CHAPS DER DAT'LL BE SO STUCK ON YER SHAPE DEY'LL JUST TUMBLE OVER ONE ANOTHER TER MAKE YER 'QUAINTANCE, AND SHOW YER DE ELEPHANT. ANOTHER HORROR. NE reason advanced by the trustees of the Met- ropolitan Museum for not opening that build- ing on Sunday, is that an additional expense would be incurred, for which they are not prepared. The following extract from the report of the presi- dent of the Cincinnati Museum of Art, shows how this obstacle is overcome in that particular case. Asan experiment, your Trustees decided to reduce the price of Sunday admission from twenty-five cents to ten cents. The result has been that 15,993 people visited the Museum on Sun- days during the year 1890, as against 3,917 in 188; the receipts from admission even at the low price of ten cents amounting to double what they were the year before at twenty- five cents, This is bad news for our Metropolitan trustees, and LiFe easily conceives their pious horror that such an enterprise should succeed. This report simply empha- sizes the fact that the working people should have access to such institutions. It also shows they are willing to pay for it if necessary. Our trustees, though well aware of this fact, are resolved to keep them out. Why is it, gentlemen? Have you no charity for those less fortunate than yourselves ? A SUGGESTION TO YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLE WITH LARGE FAMILY AND SOCIAL CONNECTIONS, A PARADOX. OW hard it is, in these unhappy days, To keep beyond the line of Falschood's spell, Since e’en a proverb, old and hallowed says, That Truth lies—at the bottom of a well! HE sluggard who will not go to the ant, frequently seeks con- solation with the “ uncle.” ear nih sda} A POINT OF ETIQUETTE. “WELL, Missus GROGAN, AN’ HOW DO YEZ GET ON WID YER FOINE NEIGHRORS ?” “CON, VIRY WILL, THEY HAVEN'T CALLED ON ME YIT, THEY DO BE WAITIN' FOR ME TO MAKE THE FIRST VISIT!” 1 suppose comicbooks.com