Life, 1896-08-27 · page 7 of 18
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# Analysis of "On the Honeymoon" (Life Magazine, Page 155) The illustration depicts a couple on an ocean steamer's deck during their honeymoon. The caption reads: "Bridegroom (on ocean steamer, faintly but bravely): I TOLD HER I WOULD GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR HER SAKE, AND I'VE DONE IT." **The Satire:** The joke mocks newlywed self-sacrifice—the groom appears to be seasick or suffering, suggesting his gallant pre-marital promises have immediately proven costly. The "everything" he's given up likely refers to his comfort, health, or independence. **Social Context:** This reflects early 20th-century attitudes about marriage as requiring male compromise and female domesticity, while humorously portraying the groom's regret over his romantic declarations. The accompanying text discusses Cambridge University and epigrams, seemingly unrelated editorial content.
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ON THE HONEYMOON. Bridegroom (on ocean steamer, faintly but bravely): 1 TOLD HER 1 WOULD GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR HER SAKE, AND ['VE DONE IT. more intelligence than the group of students who are The Babe's inseparable companions. * * * Hare made his reputation by the smartness of the talk in ** Dodo,” it is evident that Mr. Benson hopes to pull his university story out of the fire by his epigrams. Here are a few samples : Meals do run together so on Sunday. attack of confluent mastication. History rightly considered is a great and wonderful romance. He skipped about in short-skirted epigrams, and pink-tight phrases. I am drunk with impressions, and I want a little moral soda water. If that is the best that Cambridge University can do for its clever young men, a good many people will be glad that they sent their sons to Harvard and Yale. Even Mr. Bryan, who got his epigrams at a small western university, can do better than that. What the American collegian will miss entirely in the book is the sort of good-fellowship that is the charm and motive force of his own university life. Ze Base and his friends Sunday is really one long move through the story with a kind of indifferent tolerance for each other that is characteristic of people in certain artificial social circles, who associate because they are ‘tin the swim,” rather than because they are congenial. Droch. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. ROWN: Do you think McKinley ought to make an active personal campaign ? SmirH: Oh, no. If he will just notify the public about once every two weeks that he is still in favor of sound money, nothing more will be necessary. A CAREFUL reading of the authorities and scrutiny of the works of the masters leads to the belief that when a picture looks to the ordinary observer like that which it is intended to represent, it is not art. DITOR AND PROPRIETOR: Will next Sunday's Horror be up to our regular standard ? MANaGING Eprror: | think it will, sir. In the compos- ing room to-day three new proofreaders fainted dead away. comicbooks.com