Life, 1891-07-16 · page 7 of 16
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 21 This page contains two cartoon panels satirizing Harry Skinner's height relative to his fiancée. The caption reads: "Sometimes it seems to strangers that Harry Skinner is much too short for his fiancée" and "And at other times it doesn't." The first panel shows Skinner appearing notably shorter when standing beside his tall fiancée; the second shows them seated, where the height difference becomes invisible. The humor derives from this physical contrast and how perspective and positioning can dramatically alter perceptions of relative size. The page also features a "New Books" section listing contemporary publications, and a satirical piece about Prussian Wilhelm Hohenzollern appearing in British military uniform when visiting his grandmother in England, mocking the absurdity of such costume changes and international royal etiquette.
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‘LIFE: 21 ‘The world-famous line ot Canada had attracted so many tourists on account of the comfort it gave its passen- gers, and the wonderful scenery it allowed them to witness in such perfect comfort and security. Mary said she had had quite enough of those horrid alkali plains through which the line from Omaha to ‘Frisco had taken them,” Does the noble lord own a large block of Canadian Pacific, and is he “short” on Central Pacific? Or did he resign the Governor-Generalship of Canada to become the General Passenger Agent of the C. P.? Itisanice job and carries with it a private car and unlimited passes for your friends. A man of the literary temperament, with a queen fora mother-in-law, might find many a worse refuge than being a G. P. A. Droch, NEW BOOKS. HUIS HEARTS DELIGHT. By Lady Maude Rutledge. Philadelphia: T. B, Peterson and Brothers, Quita. By Cecil Dunstan, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. A Study of the Sects. By William H. Lyon. Boston: Uni- tarian Sunday School Society. ‘4 The Last of the Vandals. By Felix Dahn. New York: SOMETIMES IT SEEMS TO STRANGERS THAT HARRY Skinner 1s mucn The Minerva Publishing Company. American -Leads at Whist, By Fisher Ames, New York: TOO SHORT FOR HIS FIANCEE Charles Scribner's Sons. Moulding a Maiden, By Albert Ross. New York: Dillingham. Cameron Pride, By Mary J. Holmes, New York: G, W. Dillingham, Florine. By the author of * Mignonette,” etc. New York : G. W. Dillingham, Color Studies and a Mexican Campaign. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, w. HEN Mr. Wil- liam Hohen- zollern of Prussia, recently went to visit his grandmother in England, he ap- peared at first in the uniform of a British admiral. The next day he was in the uniform of the Corps Garde and wore a plumed helmet. Wales was dis- guised as a Colonel of the Life Guards. Queen Victoria is, among other things, a Colonel of Cavalry in the Prussian Army, but she probably seldom appears in its costume. If on her next visit to Germany etiquette compelled her to parade in that garb the uniform would have to be made t B ANDvAT OruER-Tines 17 poranir: order. The Queen is of a frugal turn and these = = costumes are expensive. t- tract against Catholicism after all—but he will find strong internal evi- There is an idea in all this which our own royalty dence that the Marquis has written it to boom the Canadian Pacific at might adopt with very great effect. the expense of all other trans-continental railroads. With the usual If President Harrison should appear in the morn- to craftiness of his race he throws the reader off the scent at first in order ing, for instance, dressed as a sailor, and in the in that the Ad. may be more effective. But on page 95 he shows the afternoon as a Spanish general, we are sure the cloven foot of a born advertising man : American public would be very much pleased. comicbooks.com