Life, 1893-11-16 · page 7 of 14
Life — November 16, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 311 This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Only a Blind"** (top): A sketch showing a well-dressed man encountering a blind beggar and his dog. The blind man's sign claims he became blind through honest work, but Tom (the beggar) sarcastically lists dubious causes—bumming around with boys, joining the circus, getting a stole dog and tin cup. The satire targets professional beggars and street cons who fabricate sob stories to solicit charity. 2. **"The Religious Euphemist and the Careless Pastor"**: Mocks a minister's aunt who euphemistically says her dead father was "taken home" rather than using direct language. The satire critiques overly delicate religious speech. 3. **"A Conceited Man"** and **"A Nice Thing to Have About"**: Brief moral or social commentary pieces, likely critiquing vanity and inheritance practices among the wealthy. The overall tone targets fraud, pretension, and social hypocrisy of the era.
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> LIFE: this evening. So, here I am, Evelyn; what is my answer from you? EVELYN: But, you are Jack Gordon, not— His Lorpsuip: Yes, | am Jack Gordon, that is my family name. But Iam also encumbered with a long and not quite so cuphonious a title. Listen, dearest, I lived 2#- cognito in Bar Harbor—but under no false name nor colors. I did so because I wanted to enjoy the place. You are not angry with me for that? EVELYN (wonderingly): 1 never dreamed you were English. You don’t talk like an Englishman. His LorpsuHtp (smiling): Dol not? What do I talk like; a Frenchman? But I am English, thoroughly so. EVELYN (doubtfully): And you don’t think there are buffalo in Central Park ? His Lorpsuip: Oh, yes I do, remaining in this country, only this morning, in menageri E N: And you don’t really imagine that Boston is the capital of Chicago ? His LorpsHip: Well, I'll compromise on that. it was after the fire. It furnished a good deal of it. you have not given me any answer. Is it yes or no? EvetyN (falteringly): You know—that it is—yes. it all seems too strange to be real. Hts LorpsuP (after a long, lingering kiss): seem too strange to be real ? (her head on his shoulder): too real to be—strange, I saw one of the few the I think But, But Does that No. It seems— E. H. Graham-Dewey. THE RELIGIOUS EUPHUIST AND THE CARELESS OPERATOR. conscientiously opposed to the words “death” and “die” as being both pagan Awe EUNICE i “dead and repulsive, When her father died, therefore, and it became her duty to send the sad tidings to her brother out West, she tele- graphed as follows: “Jesus has taken father home. What were her amazement and distress to receive, hours later, the somewhat dis- gusted reply: “Who is Jessie, and where is her home?” WHERE HE LIVED. IRST STRANGER (at raitway station): I wonder if there is any truth in the reports of ex- tortion at Chicago ? SECOND STRANGER: It’s a base slander, First STRANGER: Beg pardon. I didn’t know PUTTING AN END TO IT. you lived at Chicago. ONLY A BLIND. Tom: Hatto, Dick! Is THAT you? I NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE YOU REDUCED TO THIS! 1eDick (raising his shade): LOR’ BLESS YoU, Tom, I AIN'T BLIND; NOT A BIT OF IT! I GOT KINDER TIRED O° BUMMIN’ ROUND WITH THE BOYS AT MY TIME O' LIFE, $01 JOINED A BIBLE CLASS, STOLE A DOG AN! TIN. CUP, WROTE THIS SIGN WoT I GOT ROUN’ MY NECK, AN' SETTLED DOWN TO AN HONEST AN’ RESPECTABLE OccuPATION. A CONCEITED MAN. U PON the mystic Hallowe'en, As he stood before the glass, He saw his best love then, I ween, The poor, conceited ass. A NICE THING TO HAVE ABOUT. S a successful practical joker on a large scale Mr. Francis H. Weeks seems to be the present champion, Parents left their estates to this gentleman's care, fecling the welfare of their children would be assured. They did this partly because many other parents had already done so, and partly because Mr. Weeks was a pious man and took an active interest in church affairs. This was where Mr. Weeks had a long head and he has had his fun with the money. The widows and orphans are now looking about for some means of earning a livelihood. If there exists anything more ignoble than the thief who selects for his victims the widows and orphans of his departed friends, L1FE has yet to hear of it. R. PRY: You must have had some peculiar experi- ences in your army practise, Dr. Lancet ? Dr. Lancer: Very. I have noticed, for example, that some of the patients who did the least fighting during the war, have done the most bleeding since. comicbooks.com