Life, 1895-10-03 · page 3 of 26
Life — October 3, 1895 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis The main cartoon depicts three figures in period dress with the caption "HE HAS HAD OTHER AFFAIRS" — apparently satirizing someone's romantic history. The dialogue ("Isn't that a new ring?" / "It's new to me") suggests infidelity or romantic deception. The text below references "a mother of social ambitions" securing a "soft-in-law" through a single ceremony, then lists numerous titled British and colonial figures (Duke of Marlborough, Earl of Sunderland, etc.), suggesting this is about advantageous aristocratic marriages. The secondary joke sections labeled "ALL IN ONE PARCEL" and "ANCIENT" involve short comedic dialogues about dismissing someone who attended funerals and matinee tickets. Without the specific issue date, I cannot identify the particular scandal referenced, but the page satirizes upper-class marriage customs and infidelity.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
NUMBER 666. HE HAS HAD OTHER AFFAIRS. “ISN'T THAT A NEW RING?" “TT's NEW TO ME. ALL IN ONE PARCEL. ANCIENT. HERE is certainly no doubt that a mother of social ASH: Can | get off this afternoon to attend a funeral ? ambitions does a comprehensive thing when she FLOOR-WALKER: That is a very old game. secures for a son-in-law, by a single ceremony, Charles“ What is a very old game?” Richard John Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, * Baseball.” Marquis of Blandford, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marl- borough, Brown Spencer of Wormleighton and Brown Marck: If he bored you so, why didn’t you dismiss Churchill of Sandridge, all in England, Prince of the Holy him ? Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelhein in) Swabia, and Marjorie: | saw the edges of two matinee tickets Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire Hussars. sticking out of his vest pocket.