Life, 1893-07-13 · page 12 of 16
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# Life Magazine Page 28: Satirical Cartoons & Commentary This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"Misdirected Encouragement"** (top): A couple's romantic moment is interrupted by the woman's friend arriving. The joke relies on the woman's contradictory behavior—she tells her suitor "don't" while saying "hurry," and her friend reveals she'd already told him six months ago she'd accept him. The satire mocks courtship conventions and female coyness. **Robinson's Story** (middle): A dark joke about charity. A man gives money to a poor widow and her children, then returns to give more—only to have the supposedly-dead father answer the door. The punchline suggests the man was duped or that the "dead" father faked his death for sympathy. **"Botanical"** (bottom right): Labeled "A China Astor," this appears to reference Mina Astor (a wealthy American socialite). "Snap-Shot Pete" claims he's crucial to missionary revival work by discouraging scoffers—satirizing how wealthy patrons claim importance in charitable enterprises despite minimal actual contribution. All three target human folly, deception, and social pretense.
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28 partners—three, or four, if necessary. Round up a hun- dred unfortunates and make a stock company. Let them in on easy terms for the sake of their sc and their names. I am a grim spirit, but not a cruel one. s Are there any avail- able partners in this city ? “Yes; Ephraim Pogus. “ Pottawatamie $ The ghost wa Bumpstarter threw himself on the floor in a paroxysm of joy. The firm of Bumpstarter, Po- gus, Merfin & Snaggs will prob- ably be organized in the Fall, HE (erie aredor): Let me kiss you darling ! SHE (with embarrassment) MISDIRECTED ENCOURAGEMENT. ! no: don't! hurry, Oh! no; don't! but hurry, “IT IS VERY STRANGE HE DOESN'T HURRY UP AND PROPOSE TO M I hear someone coming! “On, | os'r KNOW. 1 TOLD HIM SIX MONTHS AGO I KNEW YOU'D ACCEPT HIM.” “e 2S,” said Robinson, “1 was walking on Upper table with a sheet covering it, the corpse of the poor father. Broadway when a poor woman and two children — I gave them money and left the home of sorrow. I thought attracted my attention. They were suffering. I stopped when I reached the street that I had not given them enough, them. The husband had died that morning, and they were and I re-mounted the three flights of stairs. I knocked at penniless. I went to their home, and there I saw, laid on a the door, and the poor dead father opened it!" BOTANICAL The Missionary: \WMAT IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU TO DO WITH THE REVIVAL, D? Snap-Shot Pete: \'M ABOUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF IT OUT HERE, | RECK'N, I'M THE DISCOURAGER OF SCOFFERS. MINA ASTOR. comicbooks.com