Life, 1902-02-06 · page 15 of 20
Life — February 6, 1902 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Life magazine (page 115) contains two forms of satire: **The Main Cartoon:** depicts a domestic argument between a husband and wife. The husband complains about living in a flat (apartment) after marriage, saying "I'm just horrified, Bertie, to think of living in a flat after we are married." The wife responds that he doesn't love her when he talks that way, and he replies "Oh yes, I do, but not on a small scale"—a joke about their cramped living quarters limiting his romantic affections. **"Our Personal Column":** consists of brief, satirical gossip-style items mocking contemporary public figures: Rudyard Kipling (setting up an "arsenal" for poetry inspiration), Admiral Schley (issuing repeated "vindications"), transit executive Vreeland (proposing absurd subway improvements), and various celebrities. The humor relies on exaggerated, absurdist descriptions of what these well-known figures are supposedly doing. The satire targets both marital domestic comedy and celebrity culture through ridicule and absurdist humor typical of early 1900s American satire magazines.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
M15 Our Personal Column. UDYARD KIPLING is fitting up an arsenal at Woolwich, which he will make his permanent home. It will serve him as an inspiration for his contemplated poem, ‘ More Blood.” Admirel W. 8. Schley is preparing several more vindications for the coming year. They will be issued monthly until further notice. HH. I. Vreeland, of the Met- ropolitan Street Railway, is considering some new patents to goon the New York surface cars. Among the latest is a cold blast to be blown on the necks. of the passengers in winter time ; also a new arrangement for summer, so that each passenger will have to leap four feet higher B® than at present in order to get on. William IT. of Ger- many is staying with himself for a few weeks, A nice dinner was recently given to Mr. Ernest Thompson-Se- ton, There were said to be present Mr. Gil- der-Watson-Richard, Mr. Bacheller-Irving, Dr. Mitchell - Weir, Mr. Bangs-Kendrick- Jobn, Mr.Stockton-Frank- R., Mr, James-Henry, Mr. Churchill-Winston, Miss Johnston- Mary, Mrs. Phelps - Stuart-Elizabeth, and Washington-T.-Book- er; not to ment Howells - Dean - William and Mr. Page - Nelson- Thomas. neral Miles is taking absent treatment. It consists of “going into the silence” for several hours every day in hopes that a perma- nent cure may result. The President has already be- P) gun on his next message, It will 'f--*" be in the form of a historical nov], with the dramatic rights reserved, and be issued uniform vith the library of the world’s best literature. It is rumored that Miss Lillian Russell will stop getting married and settle down, ” It is said that at the court ball of the x <K WING IN A PLAT AFTER WE ARE MARRIZD.' i ane i h ie et epi eh A icy ae pedal pie sl coronation William Waldorf Astor will * YOU DON'T Lov: 5 LK . “on, YES, 1 DO, BUT NOT ON A AMALL eCALE.” go disguised as an American Patriot. comicbooks.com