Life, 1892-12-29 · page 4 of 47
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page, December 29, 1892 This page contains several satirical commentary pieces rather than traditional political cartoons. The main visible illustration depicts what appears to be a theatrical or social scene with figures in period dress, though the specific reference is unclear from the image alone. The text discusses various topics including Yale University students' conduct at a theater, Speaker Crisp's political standing within the Reform Club, Massachusetts cremation society practices, and a meteorite discovery in Mexico. One section critiques a British poet receiving £200—apparently a substantial but seemingly inadequate sum for artistic work. The satire targets institutional hypocrisy, misguided social practices, and cultural pretension among the American and British elite classes of the 1890s.
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- LIFE: “While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XN DECEMBER 29, v Twesty-Tinke Srreer, New Vouk $s.ona year in advance. Postage to foreign Postal Unfon, $1 ear, extra. Single copies, ro cents, Hack numbers can be had by applying at this office, Single copies of Vols. Land Il. out of print. Vol. ly bound, $y0.005 Vol. UL. bound, Sts.» Hack numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy. ‘Vols. HL to XVL, inclu- sive, bound of in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by Id address as well as new ontributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped I IFE learns with aston- ~ ishment that the au- thorities of New Haven have fined two Yale undergradu- ates one hundred dollars apiece What makes it more surprising is that for riotous behavior. 1¢ of them was the left guard of the Yale University foot-ball team and the other a prominent member of the Yale Y.M.C. A. The young gentlemen's miseon- duct consisted in having a little fun ina theater, in the course of which one or two actors were hurt, the perform- ance stopped and a fair imitation of a panic ex- cited among the audience. None was killed, however, and we believe the damaged actors: got well in due time, It isa relief to know that the young What is aye! and old Yale herself, good gentlemen have appealed from the harsh sentence foot-ball and the Y.M.C. A, for, if their adherents are not to have some privileges ? ° . . Ww Naman has been to the trouble to prepare suitable remarks it is a grievous pain to him to see the occasion slip away with- out affording him a chance to explode them Anyone who has ever bad anything to say and has been bilked of his opportunity will with the Neve 1 emotions of t sympathize recent Speaker Crisp. should be = consoling to ¢ Speaker to. remember that a man rarely sutfers any permane damage because of the things he does not say. Delays are dangerous, but not, on the whole, so dangerous as remarks, which get into the newspapers and are hostages given to fortune. If Mr. Crisp at this late day needs additional solace he should find a good deal in the reflection that the esteemed Reform Club is not likely ever again to forget that it is the peculiar privilege of Speakers to speak T HE Massachusetts Cremation Society is out with a pamphlet setting forth the advan- s of the system it favors, and publishing a list of offic which includes some of the most respected names in the State, Bishop Brooks, Mr. Francis Parkman, Dr. Eliot, of Harvard, and Prof. Child are among the stockholders who Dr. Eliot and says he in- tends to be buried himself, but favors tire for other folks But even that is a concession, for it helps to establish the have subscribed for the erection of a crematory. to be sure takes a rather Calvinistic view, respectability of the new process. pre Society seems to us to overlook a good point when it omits to recommend cremation especially to million- aires and other eminent persons, whose mortal relics are be- Atpresent the practice 1s to. put the bodies of such persons in extra-strong and durable tombs, and have them guarded by watchmen. It would be lieved to have a marketable valu: much less expensive, and, what is more to the point, less troublesome, to have them reduced to fine ashes, put in a tin security box, and stored permanently in the vaults of a safe-deposit company. [We point out to the Massachusetts Society that this suggestion might be advantageously brought to the attention of possible customers by suit- able advertisements in such period asthe Wale Street News and i DISPATCH from the City of Mexico announces that an aerolite weighing twenty tons, that dropped four months ago in Chihuahua, fell ona mountain and ploughed a deep furrow down its side, revealing at one point a rich vein of silver, which a practical mining man immediately covered with aclaim. The attention of American novelists is called to the very superior suggestion thus offered to writers of fiction, Claims to the sole use of the incident in literature should be staked out at once, and the proper papers for- warded to the Librarian of Congress. ] T is a striking comment on the state of poetry in England that have driven him: clean daft. The tion a pound at D0 yiven toa poet should mistake made was in not doling out the benefac- i time, or in whatever amounts. British poets are used to get for individual production, Doubtless £200 in a lump, and praise besides, was like a sudden hearty meal to a-person four-fifths starved. comicbooks.com