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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page (Volume XXVII, No. 680) This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"To a Would-Be New Woman"** - A romantic poem discouraging a woman from learning about worldly wickedness, advising her to focus on domestic happiness instead. This satirizes Victorian attitudes restricting women's independence. 2. **"Herdso/Sirso" dialogue** - A brief exchange about whether men control their own fortunes, with a quip that many fall in with "Hudduck contractors," likely a topical reference to corrupt business practices (unclear which specific scandal). 3. **"Kansas Man Under Different Skies"** - A political cartoon featuring dialogue between a Bishop and Tommy about American heiresses. The Kansas farmer's monologue bitterly describes agricultural hardship—mortgaged land, weather, pests—versus wealthy easterners, satirizing economic inequality and the farmers' plight during the Populist era.
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VOLUME XXVII. * L | k FE e: NUMBER 680. TO A WOULD-BE NEW : WOMAN. 1G. thou wouldst know this wicked world? Try not that task, my sweet; ‘The paths that wander through the marsh Are not for thy dear feet. Deep in the depths, back of the gaze Of thy sweet, wonder- ing eyes, Far happier thought, far better hope Of future gladness lies. ‘There's love untold and store of joy And wealth of happiness for thee, Gaze not then forth with saddened look To know the world’s iniquity. ‘Think rather of the joys of life, Love's bliss and rapture, And let some other, uglier maid The suffrage capture. — Afetcalfe. ERDSO: Do you believe men are the architects of their own fortunes Saipso: Certainly; but too many of them fall in with Buddensick contractors. THE AssociaTED PRESS, UNDER DIFFERENT SKIES. S MAN (vistting in the Fast): Yes, sir, the West is the country for the farmers. Look at her vast prairies covered with crops so heavy that they make whole counties k down in the mid- dle. Look at her corn crop, so vast that it crowded township lines into the rivers! KANSAS MAN (at Populist meeting in his native State): Fellow-sufferers, dry weather, Hessian flies and gold-bugs prey like vampires on our land. Our once fair State is plastered over with mortgages so heavy that we have to bore a hole The Bishop: Weis, Tommy, | suprose You KNOW THE LORD'S PRAYER. through with an auger in order “THAT NE MAY MARRY AN AMERICAN HEIRESS.” to plantcorn. Rouse, ye slaves ! comicbooks.com