Life, 1901-12-19 · page 20 of 20
Life — December 19, 1901 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon satirizes rural pessimism. A curious "Literary Traveler" asks a depressed villager outside a churchyard about local folklore and fairy tales. The resident bitterly replies that there's no folk-lore in the neighborhood—the only "fairy tales" are on the tombstones (implying lies on gravestones, or perhaps that death is the only story worth telling). The joke mocks the resident's joyless outlook and suggests rural communities lack the romantic heritage or storytelling traditions urban visitors might expect. It's titled "Moonshine," likely meaning the response is bitter nonsense. The rest of the page consists of period advertisements: Evans' Ale and Stout, Martell's Three Star Brandy, Field and Stream magazine ($1/year), Naylor's department store, and Life Binder subscriptions—typical commercial content for a satirical weekly magazine of this era.
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December 19, 1901, cheapest but by all tests the best Brewed for past 115 yeors by C. Hi, Evans & Sons, Hudson, N.Y, / oii : Nay lilting Bays hex Literary Traveler (to depressed-looking restdent outside country churchyard): INTERESTING OLD PLACE THIS, SIR, ANY FOLK-LORE OR PAIRY TALES CONNECTED WITH IT? Grumpy Resident (who has evidently been left out of @ will): THERE 18N'T ANY POLK-LORE IN THIS NEIGHBOR- HOOD, AND THE ONLY FAIRY TALES YOULL FIND AKE IN THR CUURCRYARD—ON THE TOMBSTONES.— Moonshine. I READ 863 Broadway Center of the Sh s — 21 W. 42" Sr. Near Grand Cental Bepot and 150 Broadway Liberty Street Corner 13 others in principal centers. — MacOnotRs Rective CAREFUL ATTENTION EVERY MONTH! “A Genuine Old Brandy made from Wine.” — Medical Press (London), Aug, 1899 It is the only magazine pub- | ; lished in America in the in- | MARTELL § terest of gentlemen-sportsmen, H lovers of the rod, the gun and THREE STAR the dog. BRA N DY its cost per year i SiCOSE per’ year ts; a mere: AT ALL BARS AND RESTAURANTS. bagatelle. pa A wen | ,.LIFE BINDER.. $1.00 A YEAR CHEAP, STRONG AND DURABLE. From the publishers, who invite your _ subseription; We furnish these in black or red, to hold 26 numbers, for $1.00, postage prepaid. FIELD and STREAM, 46 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. | LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, {9 West Thirty-first Street, New York. PRESB OF THE J. W. PRATT CO, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com