Life, 1898-09-08 · page 7 of 20
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# "Its Reply" Cartoon Analysis The cartoon labeled "ITS REPLY" depicts a domestic scene with satirical intent. A well-dressed man appears startled or dismayed while a woman and child present him with what seems to be a bill or invoice. The woman's posture and the child's gesture suggest she is demanding payment or retaliation for something—likely a husband's transgression or household expense. The satire plays on Victorian gender dynamics: the "reply" is the woman's economic or domestic retaliation against the man's behavior or irresponsibility. The cartoon suggests wives wielding financial or domestic power as leverage against husbands, a commentary on marital power struggles and women's limited but creative means of asserting authority within marriage during this era.
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Literary Notes. WING to his having acquired a golfing arm, Andrew Lang bas advised his publisbers that he has foozled bis Saffron Fairy Book and has sublet the contract for its preparation to Mr, Quiller-Couch, one of the most expert finishers in the literary world, Mr. Couch will drop writing “The Might Have Been Edition” of Stevenson until he bas completed Mr. Lang's book, the judgmont of bis publishers being that the Stevenson can wait, while it would never doto pertnit a Christmas to pass without a tinted tome of some kind from Mr. Lang. * 6 « “HE stock in the Richard Harding Davis Company is almost ready to be marketed, In the allotment, proference will be given to young women subscribersat boarding school, as a graceful recognition of their services in making Mr. Davis a great writer. President Taylor, of Vassar College, wo understand is negotiating for a block of a thousand shares, to be distributed among the pupils at the charming seat of learning at Poughkeepsie. Surely nothing could attract young women to a college more easily than the knowledge that all successful applicants for admission should receive one of these handsomely engraved certificates. . . . R. STEPHEN CRANE'S new work, “The Purple Spaniard ; or, the Cuban Cucumber’s Revenge,” is to be published in book form us svon as it has been received from the painters, Mr. Crane has been so busy at his work as a correspondent that he has had no timo to color his adjectives himself, As a result of this he has sent the manuscript to a well-known decorating concern on Union Square, who baye had a force of ten house painters at work upon the author’s pages for the past ten days, It has been stated by ono who has seen the work that, out of the seventeen thousand adjectives and thirteen thousand adverbs in “The Purple Spaniard,” no three are of the same hue. * . * CURIOUS accident to Mr. Hall Caine while traveling recently A in Gormany shows what a dangerous thing it is for an author with red hair to wear a beard, Mr. Caine was returning to his room late one evening recently and was suddenly appalled to find 178 RESTLT. A STUDY IN ASTRONOMY. himself drenched with a pail of water, the drenching was caused by a nervous old lady living on the samo floor, who mistook the more or less lurid glow of Mr, Caino'’s face in tho otherwiso dark hallway for the beginning of a conflagration, and acted accordingly. Investigation showed that . * HEN ho is not kaisoring, the Emperor William is quite a dabster at literary work, Ho is said to bo anxious to edit tho Memoirs of Bismarck about to be published, and has said privately that ho would givo the Iron Cross to be allowed to write a version of the Memoirs in words of one syllable, this to be tho exclusive edition for Gorman consumption. . . * HE explanation of Mr. Richard Lo Gallienne’s sudden taking up of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam instead of conflning himself to original work is now said to be that original work— work that is the result of mental concentration of a rigorous naturo—is bad for the hair, Thinking gives one a hot head, and an overbeated pate is a bad place for the raising of a successful crop of curls, We cannot vouch for the truth of this explanation, but it 1s one of the most plausiblo yet advanced. . . . R, GELETT BURGESS, of “Purple Cow” fame, is nuw in London interviewing Limself tor the British newspapers, He has been well received by everybody, and is prominently mentioned for the laurel in case Alfred Austin ylelds to the popular desiro that ho shall either die or got a divorce from his Muse. . * . R. HENRY JAMES’S great novel, “ What Maisie Knew,” has been catalogued among the books of reference in the library of the British Museum, the librarian baving discovered that Maisie