Life, 1893-12-28 · page 11 of 53
Life — December 28, 1893 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 411 This page contains three separate humor pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines: **Top cartoon**: Depicts a conversation about someone named Jawley who is a "broker" with money. The joke plays on financial status and social assumptions. **"Heroic Remedies"**: A brief exchange mocking medical students who perform unnecessary procedures (amputating eyeglasses) without proper knowledge, satirizing overconfident or incompetent medical trainees. **"Where the Difference Was"**: A romantic rejection scenario where an American woman refuses an English suitor, claiming he's beneath her because his grandfather was a tradesman while hers was too. The satire mocks both social snobbery and American pretension about ancestry. **"The Wrong Confidante"**: A cynical joke about a man pursuing a wealthy widow solely for her money, with the implication that her family's disapproval stems from financial rather than moral concerns. The page satirizes class consciousness, professional pretension, and mercenary motives.
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swe meno me “THAT FELLOW JAWLEY IS A BROKER, “HAS HE GOT ANY MONEY?" “ YES—HE’S GOT MIN! HEROIC REMEDIES. TUDENT: Pro- fessor, is it proper to amputate when you can’t check erysipelas ? PROFESSOR: Alwa‘ sir. STUDENT: I thought so, but I was a little nervous before I decapi- tated: that patient at the hospital. PORTER (at front door): There is a rumor that Mr. Greatman has just died. Is this true? BUTLER: Yes; but he has nothing to say for publication. WHERE THE QIFFERENCE WAS. CANNOT marry you, Mr. Albion. I have looked up your ancestry and your grandfather was a trades- man.” “True, Marie; but we are cousins. He was your grand- father, too, How are you better born than 1?" “You forget that 1 am American while you are English. It is nothing for an American to have had a grandfather in trade, but for an Englishman—oh! It’s awful!” “cc THE WRONG CONFIDANTE. HE: I hear you are going to marry a rich widow. HE: No. I love her to desperation, but I cannot ask her to be my wife. What is the obstacle ? : Her money. SHE: Goes to her husband's family if she remarries ? comicbooks.com