Life, 1891-07-23 · page 11 of 14
Life — July 23, 1891 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 39 This page contains three unrelated satirical pieces: **Top cartoons**: Two diagrams labeled "Reappearance of Dominant Minor Third" and "Closing Measures" appear to be musical jokes, showing figures interacting with circular diagrams in absurdist ways. The specific musical reference is unclear without more context. **Middle section**: A conversation between a Paterfamilias (father), Sailor, Tom Barry, Jack Dashing, Holly, and Chappie about a daughter. The joke—titled "A Natural Consequence"—satirizes how men's behavior toward an attractive woman creates social complications for her and her father. **Bottom illustration**: "A Little Burned" shows a rural scene with narrative text about a city man visiting farm country. The humor likely involves urban-rural culture clash and misadventure. All pieces employ early 20th-century satirical conventions targeting social pretension and class differences.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Paterfamilias: MY DAUGHTER IS ONE OF MY TREAS YOUNG MAN, YOU ASK A GREAT DEAL; AND WHAT WILL You GIVE ME IN RETURN, EH? Suitor (from the West: OU, VLL Give you TIME ON HER powry, A NATURAL CONSEQUENCE. OM BARRY: Sorry, old man, but I learned to-day that her mother objects to you ? JACK DasuHinG: Good! From what I know of human nature, that will prejudice both the girl and her father in my “Jacw Bennet favor. I'ma lucky dog. CLOSING MEASURES. “TPHE divinity that hedges the kings of Europe is begin- HOLLY: Dudely insulted me, but I got even with him. ning to show unn kable signs of bagging at the CHAPPIE: How? knees. CHOLLY: I stwuck him and disawanged his tie. AND then came that season of the year when the con- fiding denizen of the great city hied him and his family unto the green fields. And there was great rejoicing thereat. The horny- hearted farmer rejoiced, and his dyspepsia-con- triving wife rejoiced, and his man-servant and his maid-servant, and his ox and his ass and all that was his, aye, even his geese smiled sar- castically, for these last knew that one greater than they wasamong them. For the summer- boarder was a pudding for the country-folk, and they knew they could raise more from him A LITTLE AURRED. than they could on the farm, And he was a stranger and they took him in in great shape. comicbooks.com