Life, 1885-06-04 · page 6 of 16
Life — June 4, 1885 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: LIFE Magazine, Page 314 **Top Cartoon ("All for Love"):** A social satire depicting a woman (Lucy) introducing her new husband to friends, with the caption revealing he's actually her son from a previous relationship—not her actual spouse. The joke mocks Victorian-era social pretense and the awkwardness of blended family dynamics presented as romantic respectability. **"Sing a Song of Sing Sing" Section:** A brief humorous poem about "Hungry Joe" leaving prison ("Sing Sing"), referencing the famous New York penitentiary. **"The Mind Cure" Article:** An excerpt from a patient's diary describing mental healing techniques—the author claims to have cured someone's chronic condition through mental exercise and positive thinking, an early example of mind-cure pseudoscience popular in late 19th/early 20th century America.
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TES SE ne | y i | \ ALL FOR LOVE. Lucy (who meets her friend for the first time in two years): WHAT A HANDSOME YOUNG MAN YOUR HUS- BAND IS. Her Friend: THIS IS THE SON BY HIS FIRST. It's NOT HE WHO IS MY HUSBAND; ITS THE OTHER. the efficacy of the Mind Cure on a broken neck or a dislocated thigh. May 23d. Health continues exasperatingly robust. Acci- “SING A SONG OF SING SING.” HAT bunco-steerer, Hungry Joe, Need now no longer hungry go. He's left the courses of the past, And come to his deseré at last. M.M.G. THE MIND CURE. [Extracts from the Diary of a Patient.) M Y 21st, Met Jones at the club, who told me about a new departure in medical science called the Mind Cure. Detailed the modus operandt, and vouched tor a marvellous cure wrought upon his grandmother, who had been a terrible sufferer from the hiccoughs for thirty-two years. Smith was present at the discussion and knew of a man who had cured a quarter-crack in his horse by following the treat- ment, Certainly very extraordinary. Wish I had a chance to test it upon myself, but am unluckily in a disgusting state of perfect health. Will take to going down-town by the ele- vated in hopes of getting smashed somehow in one of their periodic collisions ; when I shall have an opportunity to test | dent on elevated to-day, but unfortunately I was not in it. However, have had an opportunity to test the soundness of the Mind Cure theory. Saw beggar on corner of Fulton street, who assured me he had not walked without his crutches for eighteen years. Saw my chance for acure. Fixed him with my eye and harangued him—mentally, of course—some- thing as follows: Now, my good man, this is all infernal nonsense, you know. What if you have n’t walked in eigh- teen years? Look at Cwsar and George Washington; they haven't walked for eighteen years, and yet they are going about to-day. Metaphorically, you know—metaphorically, of course. Now, you can walk if you only choose to think you can; and / choose that you sha// think youcan. My mind is more powerful than yours because I have been to Yale College—and you haven't. Now, I will you to get up and—— But here he grew restive under my silent scrutiny. I saw that the cure was beginning to work. So I gave him a quarter and went into a shop near at hand, where I could watch him—and continue my mental exorcism. In just two comicbooks.com