Life, 1894-11-22 · page 7 of 24
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# Life Magazine Page 329 Analysis This page contains three distinct sections: a poem titled "Love's Paradox," an article about a collection of drawings, and a brief comedic dialogue. The main illustration is a black and white drawing showing what appears to be a winter scene with figures on ice. The caption reads "The Men Who Inaugurated Thanksgiving Day," suggesting a historical or satirical reference to Thanksgiving's origins. The dialogue at bottom features "Mr. Silberstein" and "Ikey" discussing ice-skating in a yard, employing what appears to be period Yiddish-influenced English dialect humor—a common comedic device in early 20th-century American magazines. The article praises American illustrators' superiority in black-and-white drawing compared to other countries, reflecting contemporary American cultural pride in native artistic achievement.
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> < a ° Zz 2 oO wo x z < x - a w Eb < x 2 ro 2 < = fo} x = z w = w x - 329 LOVE’S PARADOX. F we could meet the first girl Who heard us breathe love's vow, She'd probably be the last girl Who'd hear us breathe it now. SOME INTERESTING WORK. HE collection of five hundred drawings now on view at LiFe Building in- cludes the originals of many of the pictures that appeared in the earliest numbers of this journal, together with the best work of to-day. These drawings tell the his- tory, during the last ten y of that branch of bla white art whose subjects re- late to the refined side of life, to satire and tohumor, The only field of art in which our country seems to hold its own is in k and white, and in this our illustrators have far outstripped our painters. No other country competes with our own in its illustrated magazines, and American periodicals, all along the line show a fresh- ness and originality that reflect infinite credit upon our native artists, No previous collection of drawings—and we think we can say this with truth—has illustrated the lightness of touch, the clean, strong sen- timent and the sense of humor of the native Ameri- can so comprehensively and on so large a scale as. this present exhibit. R. SILBERSTEIN: Vat are you doing dere in der yard, Ikey ? IKEY liding on der ice. MR. SILBERSTEIN: Vell, stop vearing out our own ice. Gome out here on der side- valk.