Life, 1899-05-11 · page 9 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 401 This page features **Miss Jessie Milward**, a theatrical performer, with a portrait and accompanying verse praising her appeal ("There were two queens in Albion / Till one rose over seas"). The main satirical content attacks an "unanswerable retort" in a City Hall political dispute about a candidate's mental qualities. Two politicians argued: one claimed the candidate had "forgotten more" knowledge than his opponent ever possessed; the other countered he "knows he has, and what is more, he has forgotten more than he ever knew himself"—a logical trap suggesting the candidate is simultaneously knowledgeable and forgetful. The secondary cartoon (bottom right, labeled "Garden of Eden") appears to be a separate humorous illustration, though details are unclear in this reproduction.
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“MISS JESSIE MILWARD. HERE wero two queens in Albion Till ono camo over seas; Sho rules our hearts; she rules our boards; We'd like to keep her, please. Yours, Albion, {s our ruling man, And ours your reigning dear, Retain our Croker if you can, But leave your Jessio here. many recent novels, the elderly man with a seared heart carries off thecharm- ing horoine with easo, and leaves tho gilded youth gnashing his tecth, This should be encouraged. Youth and wealth have too much in their favor, at any rate, This particular grizzled bachelor will bo voted a boro and a prig by most men. Tho gilded youth would sum bim up as “a jay who did not know a good thing whon ho saw it.” Like Georgo Nathanfel Curzon, ho is ‘a most superior per- son." Why he should be go terribly down on Camelia’s little lbs, and think that he himself is a brave man when ho tells her a whopping lic to make thom both unbappy, {8 ono of thoso moral conundrums which only a woman writer dares to propound or to solve. Camelia eats entirely too much humble plo when sho finally throws herself into his arms, However, unless all psychological signs are wrong, she will have many years in which to teach him that bo is not the absolute monarch that he fondly imagines. Sho is going to take him into Parliament—but he does not know it. You aro a vory clover woman, Camelia, and you'll manago him! Droch. «PDOOR girl! She seems so unhappy! I suspect her octogenarian hus- band doesn’t wear well.” “I fancy he doesn’t wear quite as fast as she expected.” 401 The Retort Unanswerable. HERE are some phrases and sayings used in arguments and disputes that have the irritating \ appearance of being un- answerable, and that are supposed, by people without logical minds, to settle all matters under discussion. A couple of City Hall politi- fj cians were recently arguing hotly about the qualities of mind and heart possessed by a candidate for public office. After the man had been eulo- tion of the contestants, one of them tried to end the dispute by roaring, ** How dare you talk about him in that way? Why, he has forgotten more than you ever knew.” The other writhed under this ever popular crusher, but a sudden inspirat'on came to him, and he shouted, defiantly, ‘*1 know he has, and what is more, he has forgotten more than he ever knew himself.” Adam: CHEER UP, MY DEAR; YOU LOOK LOVELY IN YOUR NEW SPiING Gow “YES, BUT THERE'S NOBOVY IEKE TO SEE IT.” ee are rare because they have no little ones, comicbooks.com