Life, 1899-06-29 · page 9 of 21
Life — June 29, 1899 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Political Satire Analysis: Life Magazine Page 547 This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"It Had To Be"** (top): A domestic quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Winkleton over whether a dressmaker or wife should stay in their house. The satire mocks marital discord and the triviality of middle-class domestic disputes. 2. **"A Celestial Reproach"** (middle): A brief dialogue between Dorothy and her mother about heaven, likely satirizing sentimentality or religious hypocrisy of the era. 3. **"An Honest Secretary of War Is the Noblest Work of God"** (bottom): A complex political cartoon depicting what appears to be a clergyman or authority figure with a demon/devil character, criticizing government war policy. The dialogue mocks those claiming war is glorious while soldiers starve. This references actual WWI hardships and governmental failures in supplying troops. The Tammany Hall reference indicates early 20th-century American political corruption concerns.
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547 It Had To Be. ¢¢ (7 HOOBE botwoon us!" Winkleton folded up his evening newspaper and savagely threw it on tho floor, “Yes, madame,” he continued, “I tell you right now that you can’t Lavo both of us. The last timo that dressmaker was in the house for a week I vowed that I never would stand it again, and I won't, As for boing under tho samo roof with two half-crazy and absorbed women, and requiring a rake every morning to get the odd pieces of cloth out of my clothes—to hear the rattle and whir of that confounded sewing-machine, and to sit at my meals and listen to a lot of cut bias and gros grain, ruffled, and flounced, and pleated talk, I've had all I'm over going to have. If I'm to be turned out of my own house, all right; but you can’t havo both of us, I leave tho day shecomes, You'll have to make your decision quick. Come, madame, which shall it be, the dressmaker or me?” Mrs. Winkleton looked at her husband with a hopeless, balf- despairing look, in which were discernible some traces of indigna- tion and a sense of injustice, “Ifyou must go, dear, why, Ihave nothing more to say.” Tom Masson, A Celestial Reproach. OROTHY: Mamma, if I should die, would I go to heaven? “ Why, yes, darling; of course you would.” “And if you should die, would you go to heaven, too?” ‘*T hope so, dear.” “Thope 80, too; because it would be very awkward for me to be known as the little girl whose mother is in hell.” AY’ honest Sceretary of War is the noblest work of God. fo Gres, pee rp tas Ht eR! ¥ “WELL, NERE'S TO WAR, IT'S A RPLENDID THING!" IT 18, AND SOME WANS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.” THE WHOLE IDEA OP WAR 18 IMMENSE, WHY, IP IT HADN'T BEEN FOR THIS RECENT INVASION YOU AND I WOULD BE aT HOME, IN THE FLESH TO-DAY, WITH OUR PAMILIES."* “TRUE, BUT OUR DEATHS WERE GLORIOUS, AND IN A cause.” ‘OU MEAN SHOOTING SPANIARDS? "* , AND FILIPINOS." UT 1 DIDN'T SHOOT ANYBODY. 1 DIED OP STARVA+ TION AND NEGLECT.” “80 DID.” HE rumor that the chieftains of Tam- many propose to buy Muckross Abbey and the Killarney Lakes in Ireland will doubt- less facilitate the purchase of those interesting Telics by local subscription, Yet a Tammany administration of the Killarney district would be interesting, ar.d might be useful to demon- strate to London that the men who govern . fancy paints them. BABIES UP DERE!” comicbooks.com