Life, 1891-03-19 · page 7 of 14
Life — March 19, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 171 This page contains several satirical vignettes typical of early 20th-century Life magazine humor: **"A Possibility"** mocks gender dynamics—a woman dismisses her husband's near-fatal hunting accident as unremarkable, suggesting he deserved it. **"Getting a Huge on Him"** (small cartoon) appears to be a visual pun about physical contact or embrace. **"On the Homeward-Bound Steamer"** depicts a social exchange where a woman claims "Tales of the Alhambra" was considered improper reading for women in London—satirizing Victorian moral prudishness. **"On the Edge of a Precipice"** shows a train-boy confronting a passenger-author about selling his book, with humorous tension over the author's anonymity and the boy's brazen sales tactics. **"Papa" dialogue** satirizes military pensions policy, showing a child's innocent persistence questioning why wounded Sioux campaign soldiers don't receive veterans' benefits like regular army soldiers.
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AND SHE NAMED THE DAY. He (awkwardly) : She: Vm SURE I'M QUITE IN THE DARK! He: Tues (desperately) SUPPOSE WE STRIKE A MATCH! Au, Miss MABEL, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND MY FEELINGS! *€ TDYAPA,” said his little son, do the soldiers wounded in the Sioux campaign receive pensions like the veterans of the rebellion ?" “No, my son. They do not!” “Well, why not, papa?" persisted the child. “ Because, my boy, soldiers in the regular army cannot vote, you know.” 174 A POSSIBILITY. 2: Quite a remarkable thing happened the other day, on our hunting trip, I mistook a friend of mine in the woods for a deer, and would have shot if he hadn't shouted and stopped me, SHE: I don't see any- thing remarkable about that. He was perfectly right. You might have hit him. ON THE HOMEWARD- BOUND STEAMER. HE: What are you reading ? * Tales of the Alham- bra;" did you ever see it? SHE: No; I wanted to go there when I was in Lon- don, but they told me it wasn't proper. ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE. PASSENGER (to train- boy): You probably did not know when you put this book in my lap, that I was the author. TRAIN-BOY: Did you write that book ? PASSENGER: I did. TRAIN-BOoY: Then you had better keep mighty quiet about it. I just sold a copy to the man back of you. comicbooks.com