Life, 1899-01-26 · page 9 of 20
Life — January 26, 1899 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 69 This page contains humorous dialogues about marriage and romance, illustrated with period drawings. The top image shows "Hobson Reaches the Philippines, and the Girls Are Ready"—likely a reference to Admiral Hobson's 1898 naval victory in the Spanish-American War, here humorously reimagined with women in elaborate dress waiting to greet him. Below are three separate comedic sketches: "Men Are Deceivers Ever" depicts a couple's pre-wedding anxiety; "A Suggestion" satirizes theological concerns about reincarnation and the soul; and an untitled piece quotes Tom Mason about post-marriage doubts. The satire targets romantic delusions, masculine deception in courtship, and the gap between wedding-day idealism and marital reality—typical early 20th-century Life magazine humor mocking human folly in love and marriage.
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Men Are Deceivers Ever. BEFORE THE CEREMONY. ¢¢POEN minutes more, and I shall be T Her husband, What a feeling! Ah, minutes! short you seem tome— I hear the orgun pealing. HOBSON REACHES THE PHILIPPINES, AND THE GIRIS ARE READY. “80 short they seem! I've had my fling, And now the time is going. Old man, be sure you've got that ring— The church is overflowing. “Ah, coward soul, thia is the test! I must not keep her waiting. I wonder if it’s for the Lest? I feel I'm hesitating. “Of course I love her. I would take An oath on that, by Heaven! And yet—it may be a mistake Como! thero’s the signal given AFTER. (In the carriage.) “At last, my darling, you are mine. I feel like—yos—like shouting! And you? Atear? Am I not thino? How can you, dear, bo doubting?” Tom Masson, meee rr. A Suggestion. E: There's only one seat in the the- atre left, dear. Sue: What are we going to do? “We might do as we do at home, it you don't mind the people.” “©CQHE rejected theosophy when she couldn't. be assured her soul wouldn’t transmigrate into an elephant.” “Nol” " Yes, she said she didn't care about being reincarnated if it wasn't going to reduce her flesh General Eagan was born tn Ireland —Deaity Newspaper. HAT explains the badness of the language, but not the badness of the beef.