Life, 1900-02-15 · page 8 of 20
Life — February 15, 1900 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 128 This page contains several distinct satirical pieces rather than a unified cartoon: 1. **"A Reckless Suggestion"** – A dialogue between Mrs. Quivivive and Mr. Surplice debating Lenten religious observance, satirizing Victorian religious pretense. 2. **"To Fly Valentine"** – A poem by Anna M. Forster about romantic longing, unrelated to satire. 3. **"Patrician Types from the Dog Show"** – Four portrait medallions at the bottom caricature dog show participants as having animal characteristics. This satirizes the pretentiousness of dog show enthusiasts by suggesting they resemble their own dogs, mocking upper-class affectation. 4. **Landscape sketches** showing figures in winter snow scenes. The page primarily targets Victorian social pretension through humor about religion and class-based hobbies.
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128 considerations of proflt to your stockholders and mo- tives of pecuniary interest in advertising, both contribute to your suppression ot uctual, bare facts, The Trail bears tho same relation tothe truth that a filter, in which somo poisonous substance has been placed, does to water that it is supposed to filter, The consequence Is that a bap- pening, which, by any chance, should bo correctly reported Jn your paper, is 80 useless in itself as not to be worth know- ing, while all the other facts which we want to know are 80 highly colored as to be worso than useless, becauso the ignorant are almost al- ways sure to be fooled by them, and thus they are provocative of actual harm.” “You think, then,” said Buncum, with a slight sneer, “that Iam capable of some influence, even if it be in the wrong direction 2” “Well, yes,” Lreplied, “you stir up & certain amount of discontent, and you help to stimulate an artificial mental appetite among certain classes who themselves have & power to ruiso rumpuses, You— At this moment my enraged companion rose from his desk and hurled his chair at mo, but, being a fictitious chair thrown by @ fictitious person, it did no harm, and I escaped, To fy Valentine. HERE 18 a messago in tho roso To one who'll read aright, Oh, may this bud tho seerct yield ‘o Hor, my heart's dolight. For while its color but reflects. ‘Tho roso tints in her cheek, Its fragrance breathes tho tender words I foe! but cannot speak. Anna M, Fowler, omer! DEEP DOWN THERE?" 19 THE SNOW “WHERE'RE YOUR EYES? CAN'T YOU ser?” “YRS, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TALL YOU ANE. A Reckless Suggestion. RS. QUI-VIVE: Dear Mr, Sur- ! plice, I can’t make up my mind what Lenten sacrifice will be the most acceptable, Mr. Surriice: Ah!— ob !— well — dear madame — suppose you give up trying to run the church. NE day a Groundless Rumor over- took a Malicious Liv, and the two journeyed on together quite congenially. When they had reached the Office of a Yellow Journalist, the Rumor bade the Lic farewell, saying: ‘This is my Desti- nation, and here am alwayssure to meet PATRICIAN TYPES FROM THE DOG SHOW. others of my Kind to whom I would be glad to Introduce you,” “Do not think,” responded the Lie, “that our ways of necessity part bere, for I also am bound for this Place.” Thereupon, having compared notes further, they found themselves to be old friends. HIS first verse of a Boer parody on the ‘* Recessional ” creates a desire to see the rest of it: Gods of the Jingo, brass and gold, Lords of the world, by right Divine, Under whose baneful sway they hold DomInion over mine and thine— Such lords as these have made them rotten. They have forgotten. They have forgotten. comicbooks.com