Life, 1891-12-03 · page 9 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 329 This page contains three separate humor pieces: 1. **Top left sketch**: Two men in a bar discuss domestic troubles. One admits staying away from home because his wife nags him constantly, joking he'll "get clubbed" if he returns. 2. **"Transcendental Lexicography"**: A social satire where a fashionable woman asks her maid what kissing a servant boy means. The maid responds with faux-innocent bewilderment, implying the mistress's own improper conduct while pretending not to understand. 3. **"A Conscientious Tippler"** and **"The Green-Eyed Monster"**: Brief witty exchanges about alcoholism and jealousy respectively. The illustrations satirize domestic relations, class hierarchies, and moral hypocrisy among New York's fashionable society—common Life magazine targets. The humor relies on innuendo and the gap between proper appearance and actual behavior.
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Pat, PM IN A KOIND OV A DIL'EMMY, AN’ DIVIL A WAN OV ME KNOWS PHWAT TO DO, YeEZ MUST KNOW THAT IT HAVES'T BEEN HOME SINCE YISTHERDAY MOR" AND ME WOIFE Is LAYIN’ FOR ME, | KNOW, PHWAT WUD YEZ DO IF YEZ WUz M Ir 1 Go nome I'LL Get CLUBBED, AN’ IF I pon’T Go Home PLL GET CLUBBED,” “ PuwaT wouLp I po? Why, I'p GO HOME AN’ TAKE MY CLUBBIN' FROM MY OULD WOMAN LOIKE A MAN. DON'T LOSE A WIFE'S RISPICT, WHATIVER YEZ DO!" (The next drink ts taken in silence.) iS en E was an exhibition at the Madi- son Square Garden last month that TRANSCENDENTAL LEXICOGRAPHY, purported to be a horse show. Horses were Head-Mistress ; Miss BaLrour, 1 SAW you kiss THAT TARLE- TON poy, WHAT 18 THE MEAING OF THAT? ance. The real success of the enterprise Sweet Girl Undergraduate: 1 CAN SPELL 17, Miss Grayson, was the display of New York fashions in nur I cay'r perine womens costume, and in carriages, har- == = ——=— nesses and horses. Now, there is nothing on “T HAVE lost my heart,” he whispered, Gazing in her lovely But the maiden coldly answered “Why don’t you advertise init, but they were of secondary import- earth more dispiriting than a public exhibition {New York fashionable society. It is always the same melancholy spectacle of what can be accomplished by unlimited leisure, vulgarity and wealth. Why not have a horse show based on horse ? Not on what is fashionable in horse, and where the entries and awards are based on the social influence of the proprietor, but a manly, busi- ness-like competition where the best animal shall win. There is an idea in this. A CONSCIENTIOUS TIPPLER. RIMUS: You drink too much. Aren't you afraid you may transmit a craving for liquor to your children ? SECUNDUS: Yes—and you sce I don’t want to transmit it unsatisfied. comicbooks.com