Life, 1898-08-11 · page 7 of 20
Life — August 11, 1898 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 107 This page contains several satirical vignettes about social behavior rather than partisan politics: **"A Pointer in Etiquette"** mocks proper conduct rules through dialogue about entering a room—a joke about rigid Victorian social conventions. **"A Hard Row"** satirizes the plight of a popular hero who must maintain his image through exhausting mechanical routines (like raising the Colon, likely a digestive health reference popular in that era) while pretending effortless heroism. **"Two of a Kind"** jokes about wealthy club members, with an elderly gentleman pointing out another gentleman elsewhere—humor about social recognition among the idle rich. **"Consolation"** presents a lawyer's cynical advice to a naive young colleague about judicial corruption—dark satire on the legal system's integrity. The illustrations depict genteel figures in period dress, emphasizing the page's focus on upper-class social absurdities and hypocrisy rather than contemporary events.
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& POINTER IN ETIQUETTE, “THEY 18 FOUR OR FIVE WAYS OF ENTERIN’ A DRORIN’-KOOM, BUT THE ER RAISE YER SKIRT IN YER LEF’ MAN’ SO, AN’ CHUCK YER RIGHT AHIND: JIST AS IF YER HAD EGGS IN YER E CUSTOM WARIES IN A QUEEN'S PALLIS. IF YER AKE INTERDUCED TO R ‘OLDS YER MEAD ‘IGHER AN’ MORE 'AUGHTY, THAT'S ALL.” PROPER HE mao with no cloak but his virtue will be arrested if he ventures out of doors. Fo a friend you need a man who likes what you do for some other Teasop. Two of a Kind. LDERLY GENTLEMAN (dining at Union Club) to waiter: Aren’t you waiting on this table? “No, sir; (pointing to waiter in distance, : “that gentleman is, over there.” Consolation. OUNG LAWYER: I spent nearly an hour yesterday trying to convince that client of mine he was innocent. OLp Lawyer: Oh, well, never mind; you'll probably be able to convince the Judge he’s guilty in half the time. ELFISHNESS does not consist in pushing one’s own interests, but in ignoring the interests of others, 107 A Horrible Possibility. OME things in this life are too twisted, > And that's why I make this demur; Though sho can’t entortain my proposal, I fear that it entertains her. A Hard Row. ON’T you wonder how Constructor Hob- son likes tobe a popular hero! This bold young man’s head scems to be pretty level, but he must have to use mechanical appliances to keep it from being turned in his sleep. How can he fix his miod on contrivances to raise the Colon while his attention is being so constantly directed to himself? We ought to hope that he has a taste for being a hero and likes it; for, if not, he bas a tiresome time ahead. f I ~HE tramp is artistic: he is so useless. OTHER: Joe, why do you suppose that old hen persists in laying in the coal-bin? Joe: Why, mother, I think she has scen the sign ‘* Now is the time to lay in your coal.” AS SARAH BROUONT IN THR Boar's 1eAD—