Enoch was saying --I'm the sort of man that ought tew have a wife and ain't complete unless I've got one -- I know it's an extry expense alright but I'm lookin' for a new one --the one I had she went and died on me.
Date1926
Artist
Henry Jarvis Peck
(American illustrator and artist, 1880–1964)
Illustration Citation"Fat is Fat, or the Wooing of Amy May," by Ellis Parker Butler, in Success Magazine, March 1926
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 12 15/16 × 12 3/4 in. (32.9 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-127
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextEllis Parker Butler specialized in humorous, folksy poetry and stories. Here, Henry Peck illustrates a family group from such a tale, complete with melodramatic tears, a startled portrait, and out-of-date clothes and furniture.Self-identified as "an up-to-date journal of inspiration, encouragement, progress and self-help," Success began publication in 1897. Despite contributors like novelists Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair, along with popular features such as men's and women's fashions, the magazine never achieved a dependable circulation base, especially as its original Horatio-Alger type philosophy went out of style. In 1928, it ceased publication.
