Life, 1893-03-30 · page 21 of 28
Life — March 30, 1893 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising/contents page** for Scribner's Magazine (April issue), but features two humorous cartoons illustrating social commentary. **"Mr. Blinker Has a Vision"** shows a henpecked husband enduring his wife's nagging while daydreaming (cartoons at right). The accompanying text tells a tall tale about Captain Warsaw, a San Francisco ship commander so devoted to his impressive whiskers that when a woman demands he shave them to marry her, he **chooses the whiskers and shoots himself**—presented as nostalgic for an era when men prioritized masculine vanity over romance. The satire mocks both **excessive facial hair obsession** (common in the era) and **male stubbornness**, while using the exaggerated anecdote to poke fun at outdated notions of masculinity. A secondary joke appears below: an Irish immigrant brags about outsmarting a corporation by buying a round-trip ticket to New York with no intention of returning—a small act of working-class rebellion presented as cleverness. The page is mostly a **table of contents** announcing Scribner's upcoming exhibition issue.
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MR. BLINKER HAS A VISION. Mrs, Blinker (who has been haranguing for an hour or more): VTS ALL VERY ELL FOR YOU TO SIT THERE AND SMILE, MR. B; BUT I SHOULD LIKE To KNOW BHAT YOU FIND TO SMILE AT? (But he never told.) Party in Background: Ats¥, DARLINT, AISY; TAKE GOOD AIM WID DE BRICK AN’ YEZ'LL BRING YER INIMY IN THE DUST. IT's A PROTISTINT WEDDING THEY DO BE HAVIN’ INSIDE THERE! Tus statement may savor of exaggeration, but there are_men in San Francisco day who remember all the facts. Warsaw was his name—Captain Warsaw, of the ni& Mail Company. Maybe you recall the man now. He was commander of the japan when she was burned in the Eastern seas about twenty years ago. Well, Captain (araw bad wonderful whiskers, and they were dearer to him than the apple of his eye— ta life itself, one might as well say when one is about it: for he shuffied off his mortal ‘I sooner than have them shaved while he w in the flower of his career. The Captain met a girl one day—as Captains will—and the Captain fell in love with . Later on he told her about his passion, and, like the girlin the Bab Ballads,” she reciprocated it.” ill you marry me, then ?" said the Captain,“ Life is a blank without you.” like to,” answered the girl, ‘but, whereas I love you, I cannot attach myself rmaneotly to a pair of whiskers. Shave them and I am yours.” SCRIBNER’S «. APRIL NUMBER. .°. CENTURY AGO. - - : - Drawn by A. B, Wenzell. N ARTIST IN JAPAN. - - - A Illustrations by the author. PITAPH, - - Ee N IRISH PEASANT SONG. Poem by Loutsr IMocEN Guiney NPUBLISHED LETTERS OF CARLYLE, NEW ENGLAND FARM. : : - Mlustrations drawn and engraved by the author. THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL. By Frances Hopcson Burnetr FHE RESTORATION HOUSE. = By Srepnen T. AVELING Mlustrations. by Harry Fenn and V. Pérard. ORTH WHILE. < 2 s IN RENTED ROOMS. - Story by Georcr I. Putnam THE CITIES THAT WERE FORGOTTEN. Mlustrations by J. H. TwacittMax and V. PéRarp. GLIMPSE OF AN ARTIST. NNE OF BRITTANY'S CHATEAUX. Ulustrations by O. H. Bacher. HE ARTS RELATING TO WOMEN. Mustrations by W. L. Metcalf. 'stoRic MOMENTS: THE CRISIS OF THE CHIPKA PASS. - - - - By ARcHIRALD ForBes HE POINT OF VIEW. - 7 z 7 zi - Frontispiece. Poem by Granam R. Tomson By Frank Frencu Poem by Epwarp S, Martin By Crares F, Lusatts Story by VioLa RosEBoRO’ By Tueonore ANDREA Cook 25 Cents a Number. $3.00 a Year. By Rupert BiuM By Octave Uzaxne | “But I could not think of such a thing !” protested the Captain. * Well,” said the maiden, with a shrug of her pretty shoulders, ‘* You pays your money and you takes your choice. Which is it to be? Me or the whiskers ?” “Whiskers,” murmured the mariner with a sigh, and, having withdrawn toa respect- ful distance, he blew his brains out. ‘Ah! Those were the halcyon days when whiskers were whiskers.—San Francisco Examiner. “L HAVE got the best of this ould corporation for once in me life.” * How is that, Pat?” “Thave bought a round-trip ticket to New York and back, and (¢m @ whisper) Lain't comin’ bac':."— Youth's Companion. MAGAZINE. THE MAY WILL .«. THE EXHIBITION NUMBER. .-. The publishers plan to make it as fine an example of an American Maga- zine as can be produced. The size will be largely increased. There will be a colored frontispiece and the following writers and artists have contributed : W. D. Howells. Alfred Parsons, Howard Pyle. R. L. Stevenson. Robert Blum. Francisque Sarcey. Bret Harte. W. T. Smedley. Boutet de Monvel. S. O. Jewett. W. L. Metcalf. C. D. Gibson. Geo. H. Boughton. C. S. Reinhart. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Frances Hodgson Burnett. F. S. Church, R. R. Birch. Thomas Hardy. Irving R. Wiles. Wn. Hathwell. H. S, Mowbray. Albert Lynch. H. C. Bunner, Henry James. J. Alden Wier. E. H. Blashfield. Geo. W. Cable. Walter Besant. W. B. Closson, L. Marchetti. Elbridge Kingsley. BE ALSO AN ORIGINAL MSS. BY GEORGE WASHINGTON. Published Simultaneously with the Opening of the Fair. Price as usual, 25 cents. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com