Life, 1893-02-16 · page 10 of 16
Life — February 16, 1893 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Life Magazine Page 106 - Early 1900s Humor This page contains several unrelated satirical vignettes typical of Life's format: **"Her Picture"** (1892): Dialogue about a fashionable Paris dress, satirizing women's obsession with high fashion and appearances. **"A Business Woman"**: Brief joke about widow Johnson who fired her typewriter operator husband to hire a new man—satire on early female business owners and workplace gender dynamics. **"Sunday School Volumes"**: Librarian complaints about patrons requesting sensational books like "The Knife is the Heart" instead of wholesome Sunday school material—mocking both lowbrow reading tastes and moralistic library gatekeeping. **"Tiding Over"** and other brief quips mock everyday absurdities: empty glasses, street harassment, umbrella borrowing, and a child's drawing lesson. The humor relies on Victorian-era social observations about class, gender roles, and propriety.
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- LIFE ON’'T you think HER PICTURE. OPE LOQUITUR: 1892. is pretty, Maude? And didn’t the lace take well ? The neck, you see, is the latest cut, Don't you think it is awfully swell ? Of course it was taken to show the dress, A genuine Paris gown, I won't have Dolly McClayton called The best dressed girl in town. HER GREAT-GRANDSON LOQUITUR : 1992. A quaint old photograph before me lies, A charming face, a pair of wistful eyes Look sweetly at me through the lapse of years, ‘Tell vaguely of her girlish hopes and fears. ‘The snowy breast, the gown of fashion quaint, Her winsome face untouched by worldly taint Bespeak a being of an age gone by, When women’s lives were plain and thoughts were high. MacGregor Jenkins. A BUSINESS WOMAN. HAT widow Jobson married is a business woman. tinued her first husband's business, you know.” “ Jobson is very happy, of course.” “No, She made Jobson her typewriter, but has just discharged him for a new man.” sf She con- errs eae oc | SAMSON FELLERS IS A GITTIN’ A KIND 0° TIRED O° DE READIN’ MATTER WE'S BIN A GITTIN’ FROM DIS LIBERARY, AN’ WE WANT TER KNOW WHY YOU DON'T STOCK DE PLACE WID BOOKS WO INTEREST US, LIKE “De Kxire in pe Heart,” oR * De Deap Man's Socks,” OR SUMTHIN’ O° THAT KIND? TIDING OVER. ELLBOY: That actress in 385 says she didn’t order the kind of a cock-tail you sent up. BARKEEPER: But I see that the glass is empty. BELLBOY: That's all right. She said she'd use it while she was waiting for the other. ANNY: A man tried to kiss me on Broadway yesterday and I had him arrested. NaNNy: Why did you do that? the poor fellow was only crazy. Of course FTER the sixteenth of February if a friend wants to borrow your umbrella, tell him it's Lent. ‘DRAWING ON MIS PRINCIPAL," comicbooks.com