Life, 1892-06-23 · page 12 of 16
Life — June 23, 1892 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Life Magazine Page 394: Commentary and Satire This page collects several short satirical pieces typical of Life's format: **"His One Chance"** mocks pretentious young men ("dudes") seeking ignorance as bliss. **"The Point of View"** satirizes Chicago civic pride. A Chicagoan criticizes Rudyard Kipling for "abusing America," but the woman points out Kipling's real offense was suggesting Chicago *represented* all of America—implying Chicago was insufficiently representative of the broader nation. **"Coincidences"** features Professor Schmitz explaining probability through loaded dice—a joke about how repeated identical outcomes suggest cheating rather than chance. **"Elder Berry"** contains a dig at newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer (founder of the New York World), implying he shapes public opinion. The remaining items are visual gags: an engagement announcement with a football metaphor ("tackle"), and football-related cartoon illustrations without additional context visible on this page.
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‘LIFE: HIS ONE CHANCE. OR me onc hope in life I trace,” The dude exclaimed ; ‘Tis this, That I may one day find the place Where ignorance is bliss.” THE POINT OF VIEW. HE (Chicagoian): Do you admire Kipling ? HE: No; he abused America, SHE: over him. He: After all about Chicago? SHE: Yes; for you see he seemed to think Chicago was America. I am_ enthusiastic he said COINCIDENCES. ROF, SCHMITZ, the Instructor in Physics at College, is very demure and dignified, but he sometimes gives his pupils a surpris For instance, one morn- ing recently while discoursing on the fickleness of fortune and the uncertainty of things in this world, he said: “It is very seldom, young men, that we meet with a really strange and unexplainable coinci- dence. We see and hear of coincidences, he continued, but they can nearly all be explained. Now, if I were shaking dice and the same number should turn up twice in succession, I would regard it as a strange thing—quite a coincidence. If it should turn up the same a third time it would be very, very strange; entirely unlooked for and quite unexplainable. If it should turn up the same on the fourth trial it would be still more surprising—a strange coincidence, entirely beyond human comprehension. But if, on throwing the dice a fifth time, the same number should appear, I should not re- gard it as at all strange. No, not in the least strange. For it would begin to dawn upon me that the dice were loaded.” LDER BERRY: Wouldn't you like to see a better world ? Josie knows how. s: Yes; but I suppose Pulitzer does the best he A FALL IN REELY STATE. “1 HEAR YOU ARE GOING TO MARRY JACK BRINCKERLY.” “Why, TO THE MAN!” (0; WHO TOLD YOU THAT? I'M ONLY ENGAGED FOOT-BALL TERMS. A FAIR CATCH AND A GOOD TACKLE. comicbooks.com