Life, 1891-06-11 · page 6 of 18
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 366 This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"A Successful Experiment"** reports on the Metropolitan Museum's Sunday openings, praising working-class attendance as more orderly than typical holiday crowds—a mild social commentary on class behavior. 2. **"In the Book-Shop"** presents a brief joke: a publisher claims a new book is fiction about "a publisher and his friends." A bookseller responds that publishers never have friends—standard professional satire about the publishing industry's competitive nature. 3. **"A Snap Question"** and subsequent dialogue mock a minister who accepted a new position. The humor derives from a wife's complaint that accepting such roles means "having one wife to many"—satirizing clergy marriages and career ambitions. The page also includes a sketch of someone reading, with accompanying caption about Jimmy Regan being the "only feller kin put him out."
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366 - LIFE: are now in order. Remember what a very little of your money will do in this direction. The poorer quarters of the city will become hotter and dirtier as the Summer gets on, all of which is very hard on the young ones. Your dollars will send these children to Lire’s farm up among the hills of Connecticut, where the rooms are clean and well ventilated, the linen fresh, the food wholesome, and the air a luxury and a tonic. ‘The more money you give the more children we send. es for the suppression of slang 3 om an undecided bet 3co E, M. R. Dime Bank 6 co Previously acknowledged J.D. * Calumeter”” (Ban *““Dief ” Dime Bank. Savings of Edith and Doroth: IN THE BOOK-SHOP. C YNICUS: “A Publisher and His Frien _ H’m. Fiction? < \ BOOK-SELLER: No, sir. That’s the new life of John Murray. Cynic Thought it must be fiction. Pub- lishers never have any friends. A SNAP QUESTION O you think Harrison will be renomi- nated?” “Can't say—give us something easy—ask if he will be re-elected. 6c ERTWEEZEL: The minister said that he 4 felt it was God’s will that he should accept the new call. CoBWIGGER: Did he mention how much more salary had been offered him ? ae S° said Mrs. Enpeck, “ Mr. Marry-much is in jail at last. Serves him right for / having one wife too man “Oh, see here nov Mr. E. ventured to re- H \ monstrate, “If that’s to be made a test—"” Well ?""—very severely. Pupil: Nothing ; on ass the time ile I'm serving my sentence.” PUT HIM OUT! . It’s BAD ENOUGH ANYWAY, BEING KEPT IN, AND HIM A SITTIN’ THERE I was wondering how you'll Reapin’ a BOOK; BUT JIMMY REGAN’s AT THE BAT AN’ I'M THE ONLY FELLER KIN A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. | HE Metropolitan Museum has begun its Sunday openings, and with a result that was easily foretold. About ten thousand peo- ple, chiefly of the working classes, were the visitors on the opening day, and they were a more serious and orderly crowd than the usual holiday arrivals. This, we understand, was asurprise to some of the officers of the museum. It was a pleasant surprise, so there was no harm done ; but if these gentlemen had read their LIFE more carefully they would have been prepared for the best. The ten thousand working people who visited the museum that open- ing Sunday for the first time have taken a long step toward an edu- cation which will open to them new avenues of pleasure, and make them better citizens. BIRD in the hand is not worth two on a bonnet. comicbooks.com