Life, 1897-06-24 · page 9 of 21
Life — June 24, 1897 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation of Life Magazine Page 529 This page contains several satirical pieces about early 20th-century social issues: **"To June"** is a poetic tribute to weddings and marriage, illustrated with a couple and wedding bells. It celebrates June as the traditional wedding month. **"The Way It Originated"** depicts a man warning another to avoid the Salvation Army, suggesting their street evangelism was intrusive or annoying to some. **"A Mistaken Idea"** mocks Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, criticizing the organization's nighttime religious activities at their Fourteenth Street headquarters. The satire suggests their enthusiastic evangelism disturbed neighbors, and implies the Salvation Army's religious code about loving neighbors seemed hypocritical given the complaints they generated. **The smoking debate** comments on transit regulations restricting smoking in street cars, presenting both sides of the public health discussion. The overall tone criticizes the Salvation Army's methods as disruptive despite their charitable intentions.
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> LIFE: TO JUNE. H, glorious month, hymeneal June! when willing brides appear. We greet thee with thy bells attune, the best of all the year! Oh, time when hearts are bright and new and shocs are ever old; when this old world is made for two and Cupid waxes bold; we greet thee with a wholesome shout, each honey- moon we toast, and as the future years go out may it not turn a ghost; but still live on, alive and well, in every married life, and still the names we love so well be linked—Sweetheart and Wife inseparably, and side by side, may hearts, grown old together, respon- sive beat, unpetrified by every sort of weather. Oh, June! thou month of bridal days, salute thee, we who dare! And may the bills that papa pays be not too great to bear. Tom Masson, THE WAY IT ORIGINATED. “WELL, GOOD-BY, OLD MAN, WHEN YOU GET DOWN NEAR OUR BOG, DROP IN." weapons for scaring away the devil should be discovered than nerve-destroying church bells and Salvation Army tom-toms. udge Talkyer thinks he isa humorous dog. ——— S: Well, he ¢s something of a bench show $67 CAN'T understand why they prohibit smoking in when charging a jury. the street cars.” ——————— “You can’t?” A MISTAKEN IDEA. “No, It seems to me that it would increase the OMMANDER discomfort of the majority of the passengers.” oo SEY tee. con- a ) viction of keepinga disorderly house seems to have no effect. on that ar- dent warrior. His neighbors have again lodged com- plaints against the Salvation Army headquarters in » Fourteenth street, “and the all-night racket conducted therein. This sort of religious enthusiasm seems to have erased from its code the canons about loving one’s neigh- bor as one’s self, and doing unto others as one would be done by. These be days of progress. Some better A LATELY DISCOVERED BABYLONIAN (PARTIALLY RESTORED) DECORATION. 4 Lg LEI