Life, 1892-06-16 · page 3 of 16
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# "A Financier" – Political Satire on Marriage and Wealth The main cartoon depicts a confrontation between a "Bank Cashier" and "Bank President" over marriage conditions. The President demands the Cashier have a fortune before marrying his daughter; the Cashier agrees, provided the wedding occurs in Canada. This satirizes the American financial establishment's mercenary attitudes toward marriage—where a banker's daughter requires monetary qualification rather than character. The Canada reference likely mocks the idea of eloping to escape such conditions. The page's other brief jokes ("A Half Back," "Miscalculation," "A Busted Flush") employ wordplay and domestic humor typical of Life magazine's satirical style, poking fun at social pretension and marital misadventures among the middle and upper classes.
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VOLUME XIX. e L | F 3 e NUMBER 494. A FINANCIER. The Bank Cashier: YOU INSIST OS MY HAVING A FORTUNE BEFORE I MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER ? The Bank President : 1 DO, SiR. \ The Bank Cashier (leaving): VERY WELL, SIR; | SHALL HAVE ONE BEFORE EVENING, AND—HY THE WAV—VOU WILL HAVE NO ORJECTION TO THE CEREMONY TAKING PLACE IN CANADA? MISCALCULATION. POKER TERMS. GOT a pew in church, and now Lam to grief resigned, For the one I love to look at best Sits in the pew behind. FOOT-BALL TERMS. THEIR ONLY CHANCE. ~UMSO. It was a wise provision of the fathers of the nation, that the President of the United States must be a native. FANGLE: Why ? CuMso: Well, it reserved one office for those born in this country. WITHOUT A SHADOW OF TURNING. HE: I thought you told me Mr. Nixon was a man of a regular habits. a Ree. HE: Well, he has been drinking steadily ever since I > SS “A HALF BACK.” knew him. ‘A BUSTED FLUSH,” comicbooks.com