Life, 1891-06-11 · page 9 of 18
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# Page 369 from Life Magazine This page contains a section titled "MUTUAL PROFIT" with four cartoon illustrations depicting domestic scenes between husbands, wives, and children, along with small dogs. The cartoons appear to be humorous takes on family life and marriage dynamics. Below the cartoons is a dialogue between a Husband and Wife about household expenses. The wife has apparently bargained on "half days" to reduce spending, and the husband questions how this helps cut costs. The wife responds with a joke: "IS love that makes the world go round." Whiskey will also accomplish the same result." The humor plays on marital financial tensions and suggests alcohol as an alternative solution to economic problems—likely referencing Prohibition-era anxieties about drinking and domesticity. The cartoons illustrate ordinary family moments without clear political commentary.
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> LIFE: 369 MUTUAL PROFIT. have a perfectly clear idea of the solution of the mystery which is to be sprung upon you on page 212. But if you were born south of Philadelphia these things won't much matter. You will probably follow the love story of Bruce and Margaret with intense interest, and with more perfect satisfaction because you are sure that it will come out all right. There never has been or never will be any other solution for a “family feud” than the marriage of the beautiful daughter of one party to the strong and handsome son of the other. And because of this prevailing habit of romance, family feuds are being settled all over the South to-day in that very agreeable manner. And ‘here is the charm of the South. For so many of the best people there are saturated with the ideas of romance—with chivalry, and all-for- love, and the affection of Damon and Pythias—that romantic things are happening all the time in every-day life, and those concerned glow with satisfaction over them. But here in the North, the romantic people are apt to be not well-bred, or beautiful, or even decent. You don’t care to know them, for they have ill-assorted emotions and poorly-regulated lives. The “romantic” things which they do generally have a criminal basis, and are essentially vulgar. The romance of the South is founded on good-will, brotherly-kindness, charity; of the North, on envy, malice, selfishness. But every day the best people of the North and the best people of the South understand each other better, and admire more and more their very opposite traits. All of which has nothing to do with politics. Droch. NEW BOOKS. SHRED OF LACE. By Franklyn W, Lee. St. Paul, Minnesota: Price, McGill and Company. Master William Mitten. By Rev. Augustus B. Longstreet, D. D., LL.D. Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke and Company. Younger American Poets, 1§30—1890. New York: The Cassell Publishing Company. The Century Dictionary. Q.—Stro. Volume V. New York: The Century Company. Erie Brighteyes. By H. Rider Haggard. New York: Harper and Brothers. By Land and Sea, Edited by Captain Charles King, U.S.A. Philadelphia: LR. Hamersly and Company. A Little Irith Girl. By the “Duchess. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. The Mysteries of Marseilles, By Emile Zola, Philadelphia: T. B, Peterson and Brothers. In the Mafia's Clutches, By T. B. Connery, New York: The Minerva Publishing Company. Ryle's Open Gate, By Susan Teackle Moore, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. USBAND: You have done splen- didly. This month's bill is only half the amount we usually spend. How in the world have you man- aged to cut down ex- penses so? WIFE: Why, I bar- gained on sixty days’ time for lots of things. Sf IS love that makes the world go round,” Whiskey will also ac- complish the same re- sult. comicbooks.com