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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 189 **Main Cartoon: "At a Fashionable Resort"** This cartoon depicts a woman seated outdoors swatting at a mosquito on a man's cheek. She exclaims to stop because "some of the best blood of America flows in his veins." The satire mocks upper-class pretension at resort destinations—suggesting wealthy Americans inflate their own importance and social status to absurd degrees. The woman's concern prioritizes the man's elite "bloodline" over practical pest control, ridiciculing how the fashionable set obsess over pedigree and social standing even in trivial situations. **Secondary Content:** The page includes a humorous exchange titled "A Woman's Reason" playing on the stereotype that women's logic is flawed or based on emotion rather than rationality.
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- LITEE + her purity, which must inevitably be soiled, to the garish arena where men are contending, where the dust is rising, and the air is tainted and heavy . . . HE fiction of whatever school which derides Puritan- ical cant, and upholds simplicity, sincerity, manliness, and womaniliness in Philistines or the Elect, among business or literary men—will find many readers and admirers. Droch. + NEW BOOKS «+ S AND LEADERS OF THE CIVIL WAR. No. 5. The Century Co, Well Worn Roads, Traveled by a Painter in Search of the Picturesque. By F. Hopkinson Smith. Boston: Houghton, Miffin & Co. One Hundred Days in Europe. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Houghton, Mifflin & Co, A Speculator in Petticoat: Sherwood. Philadelphia: Love and Theology. A nor & Co. A Modern Instance. By William Dean Howells. No. 18. Boston: Ticknor & Co. The Three Good Giants, whose Famous Deeds are Recorded in the Ancient Chronicles of Francois Rabelais. Compiled {rom the Freach by John Dimitry, A.M. . Illustrated by Doré & Robida. Boston: Ticknor & Co. A Collection of Letters of Thackeray, 1847-1835. With Portraits and Reproductions of Letters and Drawings. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. New Boston : By Hector Malot. Translated by Mary Neal . Peterson & Bros. fovel. By Celia Parker Woolley. Boston: Tick- Ticknor's Paper Series, 189 AIRY PERSIFLAGE FROM THE JERSEY COAST. 6s CEE here, Ocean,” said the Shore, “you water be ashamed of yourself for beating me so.” “I'll waive your complaints. You should have more sand than to growl,” retorted the Sea. “TI never go billow in rough weather,” was the scornful response. “ That's because you have all the shell-ter you need with- out,” replied the Ocean, pointing to the remains of a recent clambake. “Well, all I've got to say is that if you don’t stop lapping over on me, I'll have you arrested for a salt,” said the Beach. “I've had a surf-eit of you.” “Oh, Pshore!" retorted the Ocean. And the Coast was so overcome with indignation that it fairly foamed at the mouth. A WOMAN'S REASON. DAM: Eve, why did you eat that apple ? EVE (weartly): Cores. N.B.—This is one of the jokes that were saved in the Ark. For the other, véde London P—nch, AT A FASHIONABLE RESORT. He: STOP a SECOND. THERE'S AN ENORMOUS MOSQUITO ON MY CHEEK. She (who has much respect for her betters); Ont, ROBERT, DON'T KILL HIM! SOME OF THE BEST BLOOD OF AMERICA FLOWS IN HIS VEINS. comicbooks.com