Life, 1898-11-10 · page 9 of 20
Life — November 10, 1898 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 369 This page contains several brief satirical comics and humorous anecdotes typical of Life's format. **"An Improved Race"** mocks a father giving unsolicited advice to his son, suggesting the father's "savage advice" would be better received by lower classes. **"He Stopped To Conquer"** depicts a romantic encounter where a man successfully wins over a woman through persistence. **"Domestic Sauce"** jokes about a husband requesting more dessert while his wife complains about lacking glue—a pun on "suds" (soapy water). Additional brief jokes mock photography, political patronage, and animal behavior. The humor relies on wordplay, domestic situations, and social observation typical of early-20th-century American magazine comedy. The cartoons appear unsigned or credited to artists now difficult to identify with certainty.
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369 An Improved Race. NNOYED FATHER: Late to breakfast again! I’m going to have Solomon’s proverb about the ant and the sluggard framed and hung up at the foot of your bed. Epvcatep Son: Indeed, sir, I think if that presuming fossil had had a transparent insight into his own multi- tudinous shortcomings and glaring dis- crepancies, he would have been more \ wary in transmitting his savage advice to a cultivated posterity like us. + OF D0dTowN = Teveutteowh, Saint Peter (graciously): WELL? WHY DO YOU HESITATE? Spanish Shade (anxiously): aAnk THERE ANY AMERICAN SAILORS IN THERE? He Stooped To Conquer. Domestic Sauce. ¢€ 7 ISTI” sho said, “ob, list to mo!” # M° Jelly and whipped cream, He listed to her. Henry? And when he had listed low enough— “More of the suds, please, dear. I have He kissed her, plenty of the glue.” The Heeler: LOOK WERE, OLD MAN, IP YOU EXPECTS DER VOTES OP DIS WARD, YER GOT TER COME UP WID DE bones, 8EET Not Definite Enough. Ge AVE you seen Hobson’s latest photograph?” “No. The last one I saw was taken a week ago.” «67 WONDER why McKinley doesn’t discharge Alger ?” “ I don’t believe Alger wants him to,” Not Sure. HE (quoting): ‘A woman, a dog and a walnut tree; the more you “NO,” SAID THE WIDOW, “IT'S NO USR. YOU DON'T COME UP TO MY IDEAL.” beat them, the better they be.” “ PERHAPS NOT,” HE ANSWERED. “ BUT I DON’T CARE, IF 1 CAN ONLY GET ANYWHERE NEAR MY OWN.” Brute: Well, I don't k “YOUR OWN?" SHE QUESTIONED. “WHAT 18 YOUR IDEALT” Tue Brute: Well, jon’t know “YOU,” HE WHISPERED, about the walnut tree. Tennuyn Stanaws comicbooks.com