Life, 1894-07-19 · page 11 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 43 This page contains several satirical pieces on romance and gender relations: **"My Plight"** is a poem about a man unable to remember a woman's face despite seeing her regularly—poking fun at romantic forgetfulness. **"A Chance for Some One"** satirizes newspaper work, with an illustration showing slapstick workplace chaos. The joke appears to be about the hectic, physically demanding nature of newspaper circulation. **"A New Industry for Women"** discusses women working as cab-stand conversationalists to entertain male travelers—satirizing both emerging female employment and male susceptibility to flirtation. The remaining short jokes mock romantic rejection and Boston women, reflecting period attitudes toward courtship and regional stereotypes. The illustrations use exaggerated physical comedy typical of early 20th-century humor magazines.
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MY PLIGHT. Diores: emeralds, pearls, Silken things, satin and lace. Jove, how my cranium whirls ! Is it queer I'm forgetting her face? This morning I met her in pink, This evening her ball dress was green, In the afternoon, pray let me think, O, her dress had a silvery sheen. And it's also the same with her gloves, And her hats, and her shoes, and Lord knows, One's a diffident chap when one loves, It may be the same with her hose. So, no wonder my cranium whirls, And I groan at my singular plight ! I have to make love to ten girls All in one, from each morning till night. Tom Hall, A CHANCE FOR SOME ONE, ARVEY discovered the truth about the circulation of the blood, but no man has ever been able to discover the truth about the circulation of the average newspaper. HAPPENED TO WORK TOO SOON AND IT SO IRRI- TATED MR. BLUMENSTEIN THAT HE SMASHED THE THING, A NEW INDUSTRY FOR WOMEN. ROM the London Sfort- ing and Dramatic News we borrow the accompanying illustration, and the suggestion it offers seems a good one. The work requires no extraordinary physical strength, and during the long waits at the cab-stand there will be exceptional opportunities for prolonged conversation, and there is probably not a bachelor in New York who would not rather be bullied by a pretty girl than by a hard cruel man. But the most promising idea of all is the little one in the corner. It is almost impossible to calculate the millions of dollars an attractive, clever damsel could amass by the judicious handling of susceptible male travelers. AN UNFORTUNATE EXCEPTION. ACK: She says “No” to everything you say, doesn’t she ? Tom: Not always. When I asked her if she persisted in her refusal, she said “ Yes.” SURE TO SEE SPECKS. OTTHEY say it's a sign of Bright’s disease for a man to sce specks,” said Hicks. “ Heaven help the man who marries a Boston woman then,” said Dawson.