Life, 1892-04-07 · page 7 of 18
Life — April 7, 1892 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page contains two distinct elements: **Left side:** A small cartoon accompanying a farewell letter from someone heading to the American West. The figure appears to be a prospector or adventurer with a rifle, depicted in a comedic style typical of late 19th/early 20th-century Life magazine humor. The accompanying letter references debts, the "wild west," and leaving for new opportunity—reflecting period themes of westward migration and escape from financial troubles. **Right side:** "The Enchanted Portrait," a fairy tale illustration and story opening. It depicts a girl gazing at a portrait of an old gentleman in Continental uniform, set in a decaying Maine mansion. This appears to be serialized fiction rather than satire or political commentary. The page primarily features entertainment content rather than political satire.
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-~LIFE- ‘There are a great many youngsters besides ‘ Jimmieboy " who will be glad to have the" Tiddledywink’s Poetry Book " (R. H. Russell & Son), by John Kendrick Bangs, with very ingenious and amusing pictures by Charles Howard Johnson. The rhymes tell all about the pictures (which seldom happens in illustrated books), and have plenty of grotesque ideas in them, as well as a most taking rhythm, Droch. NEW BOOKS. (Al BARGAIN IN SOULS. By E. de Lancey Pierson, Chicago: Laird and Lee. The Lesson of the Master and Other Stories. York and London: Macmillan and Company. Jules Bastien-LePage and Hit Art. & Memoir by André Theuriet. A Study of Marie Bashkirtseff, by Mathilde Blande. New York: Mac- millan and Company. Wt Happened Yesterday. By Frederick Marshall. pleton and Company. The Art of Acting. By Percy Fitzgerald, M.A. F.S. A. New York: Macmillan and Company. Adventures of an Evangelist. By Nelson Ayers. Chicago: Laird and By Henry James. New New York: D. Ap Clytie and Other Poems, By Marguerite E. Easter. Philpott and Company. Reston: A. J. | | | lJ | | | L YOUR FATHER HAS TOOK ME ED ME TO THAT EXTENT THAT MY MANLY HEART IS A BUSTIN’ WITH SHAME AND SORRER. NOTHIN’ IS LEFT FOR ME NOW BUT TO HUNT INJUNS FOR THE REMAINDER OF MY TRETCHED LIFE, ME AN’ MY PAL LEAVES FOR THE WILD WEST THIS MINNIT; THIS LETTER CONTAINS MY WILL WHATLL MAKE YOU MY HAIRESS, ALSO A NICKEL TO BUY A MEMENTO OF ONE. WHO WILL BE HEARD OF IN BORDER ALS as CurDLE Lux, THE Dust Tosser. FAREWELL, Goop-eve, ADoo! [Exits hastily with pal.) LIFE’S FAIRY TALES. THE ENCHANTED PORTRAIT. [{ AR away in the State of Maine there stands a fine old colonial mansion. It is out of repair now but you can easily see what a pleasant home it must have been for Hester, the little girl who formerly dwelt there. When her parents died the old house and all it contained were sold to strangers. Everything went to pay her father’s debts, but of all the heirlooms the one she most regretted to part with was the full-length portrait of an ancestor in Continental uni- form. Hester always regarded the old General with the deepest affection, and it seemed to her that he never failea to return her glances with a jovial smile. His face was round and rosy, and it was evident from his mellow eye and cheer- ful nose that he and port had been the fastest friends. He must have been an important personage if one could judge by his blue and buff coat with gold facings. One hand was on the hilt of his sword, other held a folded paper and Hester used to wonder what was written on it. But the rosy General was sold with everything else. the The distant relatives with whom Hester went to live as governess resided in the golden city of Manhattan, They comicbooks.com