Life, 1896-04-16 · page 5 of 20
Life — April 16, 1896 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# "Hunting with a Yankee Dog" - Life Magazine Satire This page satirizes efforts to regulate theater dress codes. The text discusses Ohio's legislature passing a bill prohibiting "obstructive hats in theaters"—a genuine problem of the era when large bonnets blocked audience views. The satirist suggests this legislative approach is absurd, recommending instead that Röntgen rays (X-rays, then novel technology) be used to see through ordinary hats. The illustrations show hunters with a dog, likely a visual pun on "hunting" for solutions to social problems. The cartoons mock the impracticality of legislative overreach when simpler solutions exist. The "Farmer Underdunn's Weather Report" below provides comic relief with exaggerated meteorological observations, typical of Life's humorous filler content from this 1896 period.
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*LIFE: 305 HUNTING WITH A YANKEE DOG. the deaf, dumb and blind passengers on the elevated roads, followed in the afternoon by high winds in Brooklyn, the City Hall being plainly visible above the pratrie grass. HERE are States enough in which legislative experi- ments may be tried without abridging the liberty of the people of New York. In Ohio, for instance, one branch of the Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the wearing of obstructive hats in theatres. Such a law may be helpful if anyone can be induced to enforce it. If the Buckeyes find it useful the rest of us may try it. If not, we may still hope for relief from such an application of the Réntgen rays to opera glasses as may enable us to see through an ordinary hat without difficulty. ARMER | UNDERDUNN'’S weather report for week ending April 23d, 1896. NorTH POote, April 15.—The hot wave f] still obtains (copyrighted) in this vicinity, the thermometer ranging from go? to 104° in the shade, with an unprecedented watermellon crop and bunches of bana- nas hanging from every limb, The roads continue very dusty. Wasuincton, April :6th.—High Con- gressional winds are reported in this re- gion, with long-continued Pension outbursts, Reed- birds flying high, and embossed storm signals over the White House. The lightning rods on the National Retreat are bent double, and the inmates report balls of real fire on the ceilings. The thermometer ranges from 40° below to 800* above, with no prospects of relief. ELLERSLIE BARN,YARD, April rsth.—The Morton boom, which re- cently found its centre in New York city and gradually spread over a part of Kings and Westchester Counties, reached here yester- day by easy stages, and passed off to the South and East, expending its force in the Atlantic. No serious damage was done, and light, variable winds in the direction of East St. Louis, followed by a dead calm, are predicted for the next six weeks. For New York and surrounding districts, Thursday, Friday and Saturday there will be a dead silence, followed on Sunday by eighteen miles of solid crime with illustrations to fit, and deep wrinkles will form on the statue of Horace Greely in Park Row. Monday, live patients will be seen through the windows of Bellevue Hospi- tal, and green grass will sprout in the reading room of the Metropolitan Club, Tuesday will open light and pleasant, with snow, hail and rain later in the afternoon, followed by loud claps of thunder, almost waking up the seven sleepers in the “ Evening Post” building, causing them to start and mutter in their slumber. Wednesday,the sun avill shine, raised letters being easily read by comicbooks.com