Life, 1891-07-09 · page 10 of 14
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# "That Tired Feeling" - Life Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical sketches about exhaustion and disillusionment. The top illustration depicts two well-dressed figures at what appears to be a public gathering, with dialogue about the distinction between "liking" and "loving"—satirizing romantic pretense among the upper classes. The middle sketch shows a man and woman discussing a "remarkable girl" of twenty-seven, with the joke hinging on her dishonesty about her age—a common target of period humor about vanity. The bottom illustration, "By the Sad Sea Waves," depicts poor or working-class people in distress by the shore, with dialogue suggesting they endure multiple hardships in life and expect divine judgment hereafter—social commentary on poverty and the working class's grim circumstances and fatalism. The overall theme appears to be different manifestations of weariness: romantic, social, and existential.
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THAT TIRED FEELING. He: AND NOW THAT I HAVE TOLD YOU OF MY LOVE, WHAT IS THE FEELING WiTH WHicn I INsPIRE YOU? OH, sreaK! She: 1 pON'T KNOW WHAT THE FEELING 18, He (importunately) : Wvat! CAN YOU NOT TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN /éking AND loving ! She: YES; BUT IT 1S NOT SO EASY TO DISTINGUISH NETWEEN LASSITUDE AND ennui, YOU KNOW, ROW Here is some tobacco, my poor man. You JINN: You'll go to the devil. must feel the loss of a smoke after dinner. HALL: He'll come after you. TRAMP: No, sir. I feel the loss of my dinner before the smoke. He: SMES A REMARKABLE GIRL, ESN'T HESITATE TO BY THE SAD SEA WAVES, TELL. EVERYBODY THAT SHE IS TWENTY-SEVEN, DON'T YOU ADMIRE ““AM, JIM, WE POOR FOLKS HAS OUR TRIALS!" HER FOR IT? ‘Yes, I'S HAD A GOOD MANY; BUT If AIN'T THE TRIALS WHAT She: No, RECAUSE | KNOW SHE 1s THIRTY. comicbooks.com