Life, 1893-10-12 · page 6 of 18
Life — October 12, 1893 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis The page contains two distinct pieces: **Left side:** Four small cartoons titled "A Tale of Woe" showing a candle in progressively lower states—lit, being held, shortened, and nearly gone. This appears to be a visual metaphor for decline or deterioration, though the specific reference is unclear without additional context. **Right side:** An illustrated scene titled "His Inheritance" depicting a domestic interior. The dialogue suggests a humorous observation about family resemblance between a grandmother's portrait and a grandson's distinctive facial features (eyebrow and moustache). Below this is "Leaves from the Diary of an Under-Graduate," a satirical narrative about college student misbehavior, describing absent students, a character named Gudgeon engaging in rowdy behavior, and various undergraduate pranks during October.
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A TALE OF WOE. HIS INHERITANCE. Cholly:; THIS 18 MY GRANDMOTHER'S PORTRAIT, AND 1 AM THOUGHT TO HAVE SOME OF HER FEATURES. His Adored: Yes, 1 SEE A STRONG RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN HER EYEBROW AND YOUR MOUSTACHE. LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF AN UNDER-GRADUATE. OCTOBER 13. USHTON has been absent from the class this term. Some of the fellows saw him the other day in the lower part of the town, dragging a small go-cart, full of packages. He explained that so many horses were down with the epizootic, that merchants had to hire men to deliver parcels. , So he had become a horse, and he said there was more money in it than in N being a Greek pony at fifty cents an hour, or writing compositions on “The Law of Decay in Nar‘~ 3," at two dollars apiece, for men in the third division, He will uot return to college so long as his job holds out to burn. OCTOBER 22. Another good man gone! This time it is Gudgeon, the Caliban with a pink beard, who was imported last year from somewhere in Boone County, by Henderson. Henderson has always been rather anxious about him. When he first came up to be examined, he was afraid that he might get mad and lick some of the examiners if they asked him too many questions. He said that Gudgeon was a Southern boy, and could cut and shoot, and wouldn't stand any bigod nonsense, It seems that Gudgeon and some others had been down town, and came into the yard about 11 Pp. M., feeling quite racy. They made such happy noises that Barlow, who was studying Conics in his room in North Middle, opened his window and yelled out, “Get meso: I wantto be so.” This woke Tutor Divitiacus—known as old Privative Entity— who watched the subsequent proceedings with interest. The crowd then went down to the fence, and, seeing a light in Tuckerman’s shop across comicbooks.com