Life, 1891-10-29 · page 7 of 16
Life — October 29, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 243 The page contains four sequential cartoon panels on the left showing slapstick comedy involving what appear to be minstrel or blackface performers and a man in checkered clothing engaged in physical altercation and pratfalls. On the right, "The Banker's Daughter" depicts a flirtation scene with dialogue about a missing note, likely satirizing romantic melodrama of the era. Below that, "Cupid" presents a brief poem about love's wounds. The final section "HEOW?" describes a train encounter where a gentleman enters a car and someone loudly asks "Shut that door!" The man responds with "Heow?" (appearing to mock an accent), prompting the retort "Wy, push, you D.D. fool!"—satirizing either regional dialect or class-based rudeness among passengers. The humor relies on period-typical physical comedy and social observation.
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THE BANKER’S DAUGHTER. y NOTE COME TO YOU IN TIME YESTERDAY ? R RECEIVED IT, I WONDER WHERE IT WENT? She x EMEMBER HEAKING PAPA SAY SOMETHING ABOUT A NOTE OF YOURS GOING TO PROTEST VESTERDAY—WHATEVER THAT 18, CUPID. ROM your breast you may. pluck His dart, if you will ; But the place where it stuck Will be sensitive still HEOW? T HE day was cold and the slect driving. The train stopped ata little station in Michigan. ‘The forward door of the car opened and a gentleman, in suit of black and cravat sf white, entered; but, without quite closing the door, he stood peering searchingly through his colored spectacles at the few occupants, particularly at a bevy of pretty misses. Out spoke a plain looking pass r, in a deprecatory but clear, loud voice : “ Shut that door! His clerical majesty inclined his head, as if doubting his ears, fixed upon the speaker a glance of dignified surprise, and, in a tone slightly nasal with a rising inflection gently admonitory, exclaimed, * Heow ?” Instantly came the reply: W'y. pus/ it, you D. D. fool!” THe * SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.” —John L. Sullivan. comicbooks.com