Life, 1896-06-25 · page 11 of 17
Life — June 25, 1896 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 517 This page contains several satirical vignettes typical of Life's humor section: **"Not Within Her Province"** mocks a younger sister asking her father how "a real live lord makes love"—satirizing upper-class social pretensions and courtship rituals. **"A Boy to Be Proud Of"** presents Mrs. Dolan boasting her son Dinny is becoming a "great Sunday-school worker," with the ironic punchline that he's worked "free av thin for free excursions already"—critiquing hypocritical claims of virtue. **"The Golf Cap"** jokes about golf displacing bicycling as the fashionable sport among the wealthy. **"The Advance of Human Ingenuity"** celebrates the type-setting machine's benefits to newspaper work, using Washington Senate activity as contemporary reference. The page exemplifies Life's focus on middle-class social foibles and modern technology's cultural impact.
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TRIAL OF THE SPORT. NOT WITHIN HER PROVINCE. LEACH, and the girls bleach with you, OUNGER SISTER. Say, Ethel, how Paint, and the others will ; does a real live lord make love ? And it’s O for the sight of a real brunette ** You'll have to ask Papa, dear.” When the fashion is bleaching still! IEUTENANT TOTTEN says the plan- ets are all getting in line on the same side of the sun, and threaten to pull the great central fire out of plumb and make extremely bad times both in this world and the next. We are sorry, Lieutenant, but we cannot : ee . help you in this matter. You would better read an important and thrilling dispatch see Mr. Hanna, of Cleveland. like the following: — Washington, D. C., June 5.—In the Senate A BOY TO BE PROUD OF. to-day Mr. Morgan (Dem., Ala.) asked for Mes DOLAN: My boy Dinny is gittin’ to be Women: They have desired them to be at- THE ADVANCE OF HUMAN INGENUITY. IFE has never until lately appreciated what a boon was conferred upon humanity by the type-setting machine. It is now in general use in the daily newspaper offices, and our heart throbs with gratitude to the inventor when we tractive and amusing—the wife, the mother, a great Sunday-school worker, bless the has been chosenon purely utilitarian grounds; heart av um. affection has had little to do with the marriage 5 = Wwyi UdAI IN ‘INO ape sf yoy dy Woym Mrs. NoLan: Indade? . The vastness is so great that it is even “Yis. He has worked t'ree av thim fer free excur- oppressive as well as impressive. One would sions already.” last to the possibility of pre- . ss for the venders of such articles to realize that for the venders of such articles to realize that for the venders of such articles to realize that HE golf cap has driven the yachting cap out to sea where it belongs, That is another good their form might be altered for the better, as thing about golf. How dreadful it would have been the heaviness which was needed where a tube hi ‘ { bicyclists toy off Was necessary was out of place when a thin to see this year’s great army of bicy pped wire replaced the tube. like yachtsmen ! yyyyyyyyyyyy comicbooks.com