Life, 1895-10-03 · page 9 of 26
Life — October 3, 1895 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Life Magazine, Vol. XXVI, No. 666 The main illustration depicts two women in conversation, captioned "HE HAS HAD OTHER AFFAIRS" with dialogue "ISN'T THAT A NEW RING?" / "IT'S NEW TO ME." This appears to be satirizing infidelity and gift-giving in relationships—the joke being that a man has given his mistress a ring, which she claims is "new to her," implying either the ring is secondhand or the affair itself is new, while suggesting the man's pattern of affairs. Below are two brief comic exchanges: **"ALL IN ONE PARCEL"** mentions a mother securing a son-in-law through a comprehensive ceremony, listing various historical English nobility and titles. **"ANCIENT"** is a dialogue about attending a funeral and watching a baseball game—likely mocking what constitutes entertainment or leisure priorities.
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t black} HE HAS HAD OTHER AFFAIRS. “ISN'T THAT A NEW RING?” “It's NEW To ME.” ALL IN ONE PARCEL. HERE is certainly no doubt that a mother of social ambitions does a comprehensive thing when she secures for a son-in-law, by a single ceremony, Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marl- borough, Brown Spencer of Wormleighton and Brown Churchill of Sandridge, all in England, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelhein in Swabia, and Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire Hussars. ANCIENT. ASH: Can I get off this afternoon to attend a funeral ? FLOOR-WALKER: That is a very old game. “ What is a very old gam If he bored you so, why didn’t you dismiss MARJORIE: IT saw the edges of two matinee tickets sticking out of his vest pocket. comicbooks.com