Life, 1903-09-17 · page 7 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 267 This page contains a poem titled "Palmistry" by Felix Cornman, paired with an illustration labeled "Diana of the Tower" (credited to San Cordova). The artwork depicts a fortune teller reading a man's palm. The satire mocks the popular Edwardian-era belief in palmistry—reading fortunes from hand lines. The poem humorously recounts how a fortune teller predicted the narrator would marry soon and find love, only for her to declare his palm's lines are "faint" or unclear, ultimately concluding "You'll marry soon or never." The joke targets both fortune tellers' vagueness and the foolishness of clients who believe such predictions. The accompanying sketches and text ("The Wise," "A Milk Man") appear to be separate humorous pieces about everyday life and social observations typical of Life magazine's satirical content.
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DIANA OF A MADISON sQua Loomis’s deft pen, are made to arouse cheer- fulness in others. (Henry Holt and Compar It is difficult to define Mrs. E. T. Cook's Higlacays and Byrcays in London, tis nota guide book. It is not a book of reference. It is not a book to read. Yet it is something of all three, and to the would-be student of Lon- don, especially human London, it offers a mine of valuable suggestion. (The Macmil- lan Company. $1.50.) J.B, Kerfoat. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. Confessions of a Chorus Girt. Merton. (The Grafton Press.) The Wisdom of the Fooltsh and the Folly of By Madge W's! THE TOWER, ENDYMION. the Wise. By Minna Thomas Antrim. Altemus Company, Philadelphia, 0c.) FTE: Lhave saved up enongh for us - to live at the rate of ten thousand dollars a year. Sue: For how long? ‘Oh, one year.” ‘PATIENT: I am afraid I haven't money enough to take this treat- ment, doctor. Doctor (stifly): Very well, si But if you get well without it, don’t blame me. (Henry Palmistry. I let Myrtilla hold and in hers.a minute, Just long enough, as I was told, 4 fortune in it. And when she read the lines that Time written, — smooth arred ones,— It seemed to me that every rhyme Of life were made of hard ones. and * You are to make a journey soon : Your home will be a villa.” My thoughts were on a honeymoon ‘That moment with Myrtilla. “You love a girl who loves you not, But still you must pursue That made me chilly, so I got A trifle closer to her. “ Your wife”—and here she paused awhile And took a breath, a long one ; “The line is faint”: (I had to smile). “Perhaps it is the wrong one T can’t see clearly, so I'll stop ; You'll marry With that she let my fingers drop,— Which I considered clever. oon or never.” I seized the chance, her hand I seized ; My fortune should not fret me, ‘That snowy hand I tightly squeezed As long as she would let me, And when with blushes she arose I put my arms around her And won, as the old saying goes, My fortune when I found her ! Feliz Carmen. A MILK MAN. comicbooks.com