Life, 1898-06-30 · page 7 of 21
Life — June 30, 1898 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 543 The main cartoon depicts a man at a ticket booth labeled "Foreign City" and "Domestic," captioned: "Be the powers, I dunno where to drop me letter! Sure Katie's a foreigner, she lives in the city, and she's a domestic." This is a joke about Irish immigration and domestic service. The humor relies on the confusion between "foreigner" (immigrant) and "domestic" (household worker), suggesting an Irish immigrant man trying to mail a letter to a woman named Katie who works as a domestic servant in the city. The dialect ("Be the powers," "dunno") and Irish name reinforce ethnic stereotyping common to early 20th-century American satire, mocking both Irish immigrants and the class divisions of urban domestic labor.
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LIP the record of personal bravery, and are inspiring reading at this time, Captain Charles King 13 also to the front with “A Wounded Name" (Neely), which bristles with swords and bayonets, Now that he has been made & General, this author will accumulate a new assortment of adventures for his stock heroes and heroines, who have exhausted all possible situations at West Point or on the plains. The war came just iu time for Captain King. Droch. HE rumor that Mr. William Hearst is going to Cuba with a complete outfit of newspaper tools is respect- fully commended to the attention of folks at Madrid. Cuba has proved fairly healthy for Americans so far; still, it is good thing (if true) that Mr. Hearst is going there. DEAS, like girls, pretend to be ours alone, and we be- lieve them, UR reflections upon what we might have been are generally based on unexpected events that did not occur. Fate. WO shall be born the whole wide world apart, And speak in different tongues, and pay their debts In different kinds of coin; and give no heed Fach to the other's being. And know not That cach might suit the other to aT, ts), Ifthey were but correctly introduced. TMtujjjjjjmean ABA these, unconsciously, sball bend their steps, lor Wy Escaping Spaniards and defying war, | agains Unerringly toward tho same trysting-place, | Albeit they know it not. Until at last ' They enter the same door, and suddenly They mects And ere they’vo seen each other’s face They fall into each other's arms, upon The Broadway cable car—and this is Fate! Carolyn Wells, DOMESTIC | t EDUCTION of Spanish 4s— Manila, Havana, Santiago and Porto Rico, Just as Embarrassing. AUD: So you're going on the stage this fall. Won't it embarrass you to appear in tights? May: Oh, dear, no! I expect to wear a bathing suit this summer, you know, HE issue of the Harvard-Yale-Cornell boat race, still in prospect at this writing, will be known before this num- ber of Lire reaches its readers. Ordinarily, it would be an event. This year itis only an incident, but still, an interest- ing incident. Here's hoping that there may be no torpedoes in the course, that no Spanish cruisers may divert attention from the proceedings, and that the best crew may win, Tho nowspapers seem rather to favor Cornell, Mr, Lehmann’s Harvard material seems to have been hardly up tothe standard a re this year, and if he has made his crew win he must be a proud. fel er ee man, And Yale? Thero has been too much war news for tho boating prophets to have their usual chance to spread them- —— “BR THE POWERS, T DUNNO WHERE TO DIROP ME LETTER! scRE KaTiE’s A Selves, but the gist of all tho forecasts seems to point toa FOREIGNER, SUE LIVES IN THE CITY, AND SHE'S A DOMESTIC.” finish in the same order as last year.