Life, 1897-09-16 · page 8 of 20
Life — September 16, 1897 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 228 This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **Top cartoon ("A Side Light"):** A street scene where women in long dresses are warned about holding their skirts too high—likely mocking the ongoing debate about women's hemlines and propriety in early 20th-century fashion. **"Latter Day Fatality":** A poem about a couple who met by chance, married within six months, then divorced six months later. The satire targets the growing divorce rate and hasty marriages of the era, presented as a modern cautionary tale. **"True":** Brief text mocking the Prince of Teck's rumored visit to England, sarcastically noting he's merely a "connection" rather than grandson to Queen Victoria—poking fun at royal genealogy and social pretension. **"A Grain of Comfort":** A cartoon of children discussing whether their fathers can lick their fathers—crude humor typical of Life's comedic style.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, MARIA, DON'T HOLD YOUK DRESS UP SO HIGH! Latter Day Fatality, HEIR meeting was not chance, I much regret; ‘Twas in a ball- room ‘midst a giddy throng When first’ her touched his, but not for long, Because hand that wouldn't have been etiquette. And nothing whispered to him ‘twas his fate, Nor had she premonitions they would mate. Her drooping lashes veiled no glad surprise, She neither blushed nor trembled, I am told, A SIDE LIGHT. And he was most conventionally cold. Their talk was hardly witty, much less wise, And yet in six short months those two were wed, months later were divorced, LKR. HERE is reason to suspect that the Prince of Teck, who is ex- pected to visit Lenox, is not a grand- son of Queen Victoria, as has been stated, but only a connection, He is described with apparent accuracy as a brother of the Princess May, who married the Duke of York. Well, that will do; but Newport would have preferred a grandson. most of us waste so much time hurrying that we have very little leisure. True. HERE is regret dumb ; But more regret, a lot are not. that some are ‘A GRAIN OF COMFORT. “My FATHER CAN LI ‘OUR FATHER!” “How DO YER KNOW?" "cause EEN YER MOTHER DO IT!"" ow YOUR MOTHER CAN'T LICK MY MOTHER, ANYHOW 1"