Life, 1893-01-05 · page 14 of 60
Life — January 5, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page celebrates Life magazine's tenth birthday with congratulatory messages. The centerpiece is a portrait of **Francis Gilbert Attwood**, likely Life's editor or prominent figure. The congratulations include mock letters, notably one signed "Albert Edward Wettin"—a coded reference to **King Edward VII** (Wettin was the royal family's German surname). The joke satirizes royalty by depicting a "king" casually apologizing for not getting someone elected Vice-President and complaining about feeling "rocky" after a late night, presenting monarchy as ordinary and frivolous. Other messages praise Life's **Fresh Air Fund** (sending poor children to the country) and reference the magazine's advocacy for opening the Metropolitan Museum on Sundays to serve working-class visitors—positioning Life as a progressive force for social good. The decorative header showing classical and medieval scenes suggests Life's cultural aspirations. Overall, the page celebrates the magazine as influential, morally purposeful, and even capable of advising institutions and royalty.
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FRANCIS GILBERT ATTWOOD. CONGRATULATORY. MARLBOROUGH CLUB, LONDON, Dec. 5. R LI Ma wants me to write and congratulate you on your birthday, in which good wishes I heartily join her. I’m sorry you couldn't get me elected Vice-Presi- dent of the United States. We had a big game last night and | feela bit rocky this morning, so no more from Yours truly, ALBERT EDWARD WETTIN. . * * EAR, GOOD, KIND LIFE: something to make your birthday give you as much happiness as you have given us by sending us to the country in the hot weather. But we are only poor children and we haven't anything to give you but our good wishes and our gratitude. We hope you will have many, many birthdays. We wish we could do May they all be prosperous ones, and may you always have as much happiness as your Fresh Air Fund has given THOUSANDS OF POOR CHILDREN. * * * A’ a meeting of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, held last Saturday, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, Ne are informed that Lire is about to celebrate its tenth birthday, and Whereas, Live. was kind enough to point out to us what an ex- cellent thing it would be if we would open the museum, which we hold in trust for the people at large, on Sundays, so that its collection might do good to the poor as well as the rich ; now be it Resolved, That we extend to Lire our heartiest congratulations, and thank it sincerely for the good it has shown us it was our duty to do, ‘ comicbooks.com