Life, 1894-07-26 · page 7 of 14
Life — July 26, 1894 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# "A Narrow Escape" and "The Retort Clerical" This page contains two separate satirical cartoons from *Life* magazine. **Top cartoon** depicts a conversation between a Dashaway (an attendant) and a General discussing a Mediterranean yacht cruise. The General admits they "ran out of whisky"—the humorous implication being that running out of alcohol was worse than actual maritime danger. **Bottom cartoon**, titled "The Retort Clerical," shows two men in conversation. One claims he "can't see the slightest difference between a good Catholic and a good Protestant" after sixty years. The other responds that he'll see the difference "in the next" sixty seconds—a joke about religious division and sectarian tensions. The cartoon satirizes claimed religious tolerance by suggesting fundamental differences remain regardless of such protestations.
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- LIFE: 55 A NARROW ESCAPE. ASHAWAY: Ah, General, just got back from your yacht cruise in the Mediterranean ? THE GENERAL: Yes, sir. And we came near losing our lives, sir. DASHAWAY: Got caught in a gale ? THE GENERAL: No, sir; worse than that, sir. DasHAWay: Didn't get ashore or run ona rock, did you? THE GENERAL :*, No, sir; we ran out of whisky. savage, cold and bare, but infinitely cor The total impression of the story is, 1. .wever, that it is one of those experiments in story-telling VV that are allowable now and then for a writer of great fertility and imagination. But the readers Lay of “David Balfour” want something broader, NN From Pall Mall Budget. and finer, with the marks of permanence upon it. Droch. THE RETORT CLERICAL, “TL REALLY CAN'T SEE THE SLIGHTEST DIFFERENCE BETW A GOOD NEW BOOKS. _ CATHOLIC AND A GOOD PROTESTANT—AND I'VE LIVED SIXTY YEARS IN. THIS THE SHEN'S PIGTAIL. By Mr. M. New York and ~ worto." London: ‘G. P. Putnam's Sons. i WeewON “ ‘ The Friendship of Nature. By Mabel Osgood Wright, Fatret ‘vou T LIVE SIXTY SECONDS IN THE NEXT BEFORE YOU SEE New York and London: Macmillan and Company. THE DIFFERENCE. comicbooks.com