Life — November 5, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

A PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION. E* SH GIRL (40 Massachusetts girl, visiting in England): Why is it that in America all the Southerners. are so polite and refined, and all the Northerners are so vulgar? how Lor, MASSACHUSETTS GIRL: Perhaps you wap avare that I an a Norther ? Mevrinrhr fre. ENGLISH GIRL: Ah! hen you can 4 , tell me why it is so. % the, Col Torr T Lye: MASSACHUSETTS GIRL: Possibly it is because the Southerners are descended . be ar Ler . from the French, and we Northerners are descended from you J A airs Aer dk English, thet 2 Z y @ Day > tag, A DEMONSTRA- TION. L4 TIN PRO- dR: Mr, 3 . 5 Le Polke, give some 7Atwe, Ke. Le, een mee Kio Mane English derivatives . illustrating the dite = 4++& Qeachress, JF 6p arrka rx ference in meaning a e . between fost and > Attourn. a ante. Mr. POLKE: Well —er—er—there’s hae Aucecc lel tn Meare tsay c& penny-post and penny - ante; they're A inca WAT quite different. HIS FIRST AND LAST NIGHT. BASE-BALL TERMS. E played upon the stage one night He'd never pl And he wore an $80 suit, But he won't wear it no more, No, never again no more. HE WAS NOT SURE. “ WON EN don't marry men,” ‘ii said the stickler for correct English, in a dogmatic tone. “It is men who marry women.” “TI don't know about tha com- mented a man with a cowed air; "1 don’t know about that.” A SYLLOGISM, TT RouBies never come singly. First Burglar: \ GUESS TIS IS THE WiMMIN's Twins never come singly, APARTMENT, Jim! "Theretore; twists are Woubles. Second Burglar: TWeN TAKE MY ADVICE AND KEEP OUT. THERE AIN'T NO FUN ROBHIN' A WOMAN, stet ay: . SHE SCREAMS SO LIKE BLAZES. IT 'PRARS TER ME THAT, Me GOULD is watching the rain- wisn FOLKS AIN'T GOT NO REGARDS FUR NO ONE'S CAUGUT AT THE PLATE: making tests. Fe ‘'s BUT THEIR OWS ! comicbooks.com