Life, 1898-07-28 · page 5 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 65 The main illustration depicts a wealthy man and woman, with the caption: "He: A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE! ABSURD! I HAVE SCARCELY A MILLION. 'NEVER MIND, DEAR. I WILL BE SO ECONOMICAL!'" **The satire:** This cartoon mocks the pretensions of the wealthy class during the Gilded Age. A man claiming to have "scarcely a million" dollars is presented as poor—absurd by ordinary standards—while his wife reassures him she'll economize. The joke targets both their complete detachment from middle-class financial reality and the woman's assumed role as household manager, unable to comprehend true poverty. The "Gossip of the Authors" section right side discusses literary figures of the era, including references to Robert Louis Stevenson and other contemporary writers.
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MULTI-MILIONATRE' ABSURD! 1 HAVE SCARCELY A MILLION, EK MIND, DEAR. I WILL BE 80 ECONOMICAL! 65 Gossip of the Authors. T ts sald that Alfred Austin fonds the laurel wreath too large for his brow, and has therefore had buckles put on it so that he may use ttasa bicycle belt. M® HALL CAINE receives 90 many requests for locks of his bair that he has decided hereafter to send them to those persous only who have contributed ten guineas to the Indian Famine Fund. Mr, Caine Very generously promises to send & whole whisker to all contributors of fifty pounds, upon application accom- panted by receipt. HE success of Mr. Quilter. tn writing the concludl ters of Stevenson's “St. Ives" has been so great that he will in all probability devote his remaining Sears to writing novels which Steven- son might have written bad he lived. Whether these will appear in the col lected and final edition of Stevenson 4s not set certain, but admirers cf the deceased author have every reason to be hopeful. Te rapldity with which some authors write is remarkable, Mr. Caine takes down two Lasketfuls of notesevery day. Mr. Henry James and Mr. Meredith do not work 80 fast, the former doing about eight words a month and the latter contenting himself with four tn the same It must be re- however, that both these gentlemen write their stortes back- wards. Mr. Davis's capac- Ity ts sald to be seven pages of the London Times between breakfast and’ luncheon, while Mr, Crawford's average ts a yard of solid nonparell an hour, Mr. Crane has no word record. He paints his stortes on canvas and has them transcribed into language by a force of stenographers—w hich may possibly account for acne of the eccentricities of bis English. = THE rumor that Queen Victoria has suggested to Alfred Austin that he go toCentral Africa and give read- ings from bis own works to the natives 1s not confirmed. R. RICHARD LE GALL does most of his writing in a dark room, so that bis eyes may not be dazzled by the combined bril- Hance of the sun and his own wit, His poetic fire bas increased so in heat within the past six months that he has to be fed hourly on cracked tce, and sleeps always In a refrigerator.