Life, 1889-08-15 · page 11 of 16
Life — August 15, 1889 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Page 95: Life Magazine Satire This page contains two separate satirical pieces about summer leisure and social pretension. **Top section** discusses "The Girl"—likely a popular cultural figure or type—whose presence supposedly dominates August in New England resort areas. The text mocks how nature and human activity supposedly yield to her capricious rule. A quote from Sir William Jenner advises the Queen to abandon champagne for whisky, satirizing concerns about aristocratic excess and health. **Bottom section** praises Miss Juliet Corson, a real cooking-school educator, for improving American culinary standards. The accompanying cartoon depicts a comical encounter between a self-satisfied barber and a hungry shark at the seaside, suggesting pretension meets reality. The barber's boasting about his hotel is interrupted by the shark's indifference. The overall theme: mocking social vanity and class affectation through humor.
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‘LIFE: ) by the almanac, and in fact, August is espec- jally the month of The Girl. Then the mermaid flees to her sea-caves and the moun- tain nymph seeks the remotest valleys. Every | thing is left to The Girl, and from Cape May to Bar Harbor her little shrieks are heard along the sands, and from Pemigewasset to Mano- chunk her laughter wakes the mountain echoes. Then ungainly man, let him bedeck himself as he will in sash and blazer, is only a background or a contrast, to bring into higher relief the grace and picturesque- ness of The Girl. He may have his uses as a caramel- buyer or a snake-killer, but in August all the world of nature and mankind yields to the capricious rule of The Girl. . . . Sir William Jenner has advised the queen to give up cham- pagne and claret for the present, and to drink whisky and Apollinaris water.—7ruth, London, July 11, 1889. HIS is:sad news, and it looks to us like the last downward step of a 3 tottering dynasty. From champagne to whisky is an appalling plunge. From what we have.heard of the lady's financial instincts, it seems possible that the-difference in iprice between the two beverages may. have induced her to instruct Dr. Jenner as to what advice would be acceptable. . . . M's JULIET CORSON, of cooking-school fame, is a hopeless invalid, Young Chappie Hardup: \ CAN'T AFFORD TO confined permanently to her room. This fact will doubtless be an 90 TO THE SEA-SHORE, BUT IT'S NO USE DENYING MYSELF THE PLEASURE OF A BLISTERED NOSE WHEN I HAVE SUCH A POWERFUL BURNING-GLASS, inspiration to those paragraphers who make a specialty of cooking-school jests, but it remains that to Miss Corson and her fellow-workers in the same field the American stomach owes a considerable debt of gratitude. They have warred bravely against the rule of the frying-pan, and have sought to ster known as the “boiled dinner” they introduce a tempting variety into the would be entitled to our thankfulness; but, monotony which marked the American joke them as we may, their work has really cookery of only a few years ago. If they done much to promote the zsthetics of the had done no more than scotch that mon- kitchen. Seifpossessed Bather : WHY, MY GOOD FELLOW, YOU MUSTN'T BITE ME! Hungry Shark: WHY Not? Self-possessed Bather : WHY, VM THE PROPRIETOR OF THE SKINNEM & FLEECEM SEASIDE PALACE HOTEL AND CoTTAGES— DON'T-CHER-KNOW—PROFESSIONAL. COURTESIES, HA! HA! comicbooks.com