Life, 1903-01-29 · page 9 of 20
Life — January 29, 1903 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("Expected It"):** A woman confronts a man about his friend Hiram's sudden departure from his wife. The caption suggests Hiram "went off so sudden" and the woman expected such behavior. This satirizes marital infidelity and abandonment among society men—a common scandal in Victorian-era gossip. **Society Section:** Reports on Mrs. Billy de Splay's upcoming theater party and a wedding between Stimpleton A. Nass and Miss Blabbie Duzzy. The text mocks wealthy families through ridiculous names (Nass, Duzzy, Tubbs, Figure brush), satirizing the pretensions and absurdities of high society. An anecdote about General Electric and loose pearls humbles an embarrassing socialite. The page combines scandal commentary with social mockery of the wealthy.
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EXPECTED IT, The Widow : 1 SUPPOSE YOU WERE SURPRISED TO NEAR THAT POOR DEAK HIRAM WENT OFF sO SUDDEN LIKE? NO. | ALLERS SAID TO MESELP, EF EVER IURAM STORMER GOT OUT OF HIS WIFE'S SOUT Uz'D HEY TER DU IT MIGUTY sUDDING. Society. MES. BILLY DE SPLAY gives a theatre party of twenty = next Friday, It is hoped—aud expected—that it will be and noisy. ext week society will be excited over the wedding of Simpleigh A. Nass to Miss Blabbie Duzzyt. The bride is the only daughter of the Hon. Munnie Duzzyt, our esteemed Senator at Washington. Although fabulously wealthy, Mr. and 5 Mrs. Ennyole Figure brash their own j teeth just like ordinary people. Mrs. Figure was a Tubbs, being a first cousin of the Hon, Beetsugar Tubbs, part owner of the Capitol at Washington. That was a curious experience that befell Mrs. General Electric last Monday. She was all dressed for the opera, except putting on the last quart of pearls, when the General entered the chamber to say good-b: In stepping, quite accidentally, upon some loose pearls, he fell upon the back of his head, and one of his feet struck Mrs. Electric in the jaw. No damage was done, except that she had to remain silent during some of the acts that evening. Mower WITH Is OWN PRTARD. comicbooks.com