Life, 1892-10-27 · page 9 of 14
Life — October 27, 1892 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# "A Taste of Bliss" - Life Magazine Satire This page contains three separate satirical pieces mocking social pretension and hypocrisy. **Top cartoon**: Shows a street vendor's organ grinder surrounded by children. The organist boasts about marrying off a young lady within 17 years—crude humor about arranging a poor girl's marriage, presumably for economic survival. **Middle section**: Three brief anecdotes satirizing greed and materialism: a poor maiden valued only for her beauty; governors' unanimous support for taking a "train home" (likely referencing political corruption or state resources); and an editor's dismissive response to a stranger wanting to sell a newspaper—mocking journalistic gatekeeping. **Bottom cartoon**: Two men playing chess, with a doctor claiming professional advantage over clergymen because doctors "practice" while clergy only "preach." This satirizes competing claims to moral authority and expertise between professions.
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7. eens KG gs aah A TASTE OF BLISS. Adonis Flathers (to organist); MY YOUNG LADY WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU CAN GRIND HER OFF A CENT'S WORTH OF SOME FASH- IONABLE WEDDING MARCH ? YOU SEE, WE ARE GOING TO GET MARRIED IN ABOUT SEVENTEEN YEARS, AND WE'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE now! HER FORM WAS HER FORTUNE. HE had no fortune, the maiden I sought, ‘Twas her beautiful form which drew me; And thus, though as poor as a mouse, she brought A handsome figure to me. A UNANIMOUS SENTIMENT. HEY were in a prohibition State at the time. “What will you take?" remarked the Governor of South Carolina to the Governor of North Carolina. “think I'll take a train for home,” replied the Governor of North Carolina, and the Governor of South Carolina joined him. NO TROUBLE ABOUT THAT. DITOR: Yes; I'd like to sell you my Paper. STRANGER: I'd like to buy it, sir, but I don’t know how to manage one. Epitor: That doesn’t matter. Your sub- scribers will tell you all about that. Babbler always winds up those wonderful yarns of his with, “ Truth is stranger than fiction.” SHE: Very likely it is—to him. “WE DOCTORS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF YOU CLERGYMEN; WE P WHILE YOU ONLY PREACH.” “VERY TRUE; WE CAN ONLY TELL PEOPLE TO GO TO HEAVEN, BUT ) THEM THERE.” comicbooks.com