Life, 1890-07-17 · page 13 of 16
Life — July 17, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# "Life" Magazine Page 27: Content Analysis This page contains two distinct narrative pieces alongside period advertisements. **"The Girl Graduate"** is a satirical poem about an overeducated woman versed in ancient languages and philanthropic theory but lacking practical domestic skills—particularly "osculation" (kissing), suggesting she's unmarriageable despite her intellectual credentials. The joke targets 19th-century anxieties about female education making women unsuitable wives. **"A Prisoner"** tells a darkly ironic anecdote: a sailor accused of horse theft produces a supposed witness (Lieutenant Maintop) who identifies him, leading to acquittal. The twist: both were actually accomplices, and the "alibi" was a con. The satire mocks the unreliability of eyewitness testimony and justice itself. A brief dialogue between a grocer and "Mrs. Brown-Stone" jokes about wealthy summer leisure—she won't visit the seashore but will let her children play in the grocer's sand pile instead, satirizing upper-class penny-pinching. The remainder is period advertising for soaps, perfumes, hats, and a magazine binder.
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* LIFE: 27 like man awakens with a start, rubs his eyes, is requested by the judge to recognize the prisoner, who excitedly calls to him that he is Jack Bows line, of her majesty's ship TAunder, one of the boat's crew who cut out the French frigate in Porto Rico'Bay. Sailor-like man, flustered at being so suddenly awakened, and finding all eyes fixed on him, declares, in his hearty, honest fashion, that though there certainly was a Jack Bowline in Bawah ane one of the aforesaid crew, he does not recogalee him in the prisoner. Increasing, overpowering excitement of the prison- THE GIRL GRADUATE. ere who. like all men, ‘will give all that he hath for his life ;”" sailor-bke . ' distress of the lieutenant, torn between the determination to say nothing SHE was vered in old Assyrian but the absolute truth and the desire to save a fellow-creature’s life. At J And the dialect Illyrian, last, says he: ‘* If the man is Bowline he will be easily identified by a Could identify the Tyrian cut on the back of his head from a French cutlass, which he got under ___ Effect on punctuation ; my very nose in that expedition, and fell back into my arms." Pris- Knew the theory of philanthrop: oner's head examined ; just such a cut; triumphant acquittal; Bowline Told her hearers that misanthro and the lieutenant leave the town together in a chaise and pair; cheers Came through midnight lunches and subscription of thirty guineas for the poor, ill-used sailor prisoner. and through pie, - Three months later they were both hanged for highway robbery, pris- Bur she failed in osculation,—£x. oner and witness. Lieutenant Maintop and Jack Bowline were old ac- complices in crime, the alibi and business of recognition being a well- A PRISONER was being tried for hus life in the days when horse steal- arranged plan.—Argonaut. ing was a capital offense. The evidence was all against him, and he had no defense but an alibi—swore it was a case of mistaken identity, that Mr. GREENGROCER: Are you going to the seashore this summer, he was a sailor and was away in the West Indies on some cutting-out Mrs, Brown-Stone ? expedition at the time when the affair happened, thousands of miles Mrs, Brows-Stone: I think not. away, and knew nothing whatever about it. Just’ before the vital, or “Tthought you said the children enjoyed playing in the sand so lethal, moment of sentence, prisoner catches sight of a bluff, sai much?” gentleman, dozing in the magistrates’ seats. “Lieutenant Maintop, “So I did; I'll let them come over and play in your sugar occasion- Ahoy !"” he shouts; ‘the man who can prove my innocence.” Sailor: ally, I guess that will do as well."— Yonkers Statesman. Sunburn, ; ~ OAKLEY'S Chafing, wa: California Violets. Ivy Poisoning, é Bites & Stings, Prickly Heat, CELEBRATED HATS, —anD— And Irritations of the Skin com- | ‘les Round Hats and Bonnets and A 2 an The Dunlap Silk Umbrella. mon in Summer are speedily 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 22d and 23d St: relieved by and 18: Broadway, near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Packer's Tar Soap. | sscsessitse cesar. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889. as liable parties throughout = the United States for ap- ° le proval. The newest styles | aN And'be't of goodsat lowest Ss prices. No money requir aul hey “are received, Pfeereontated outset ‘0 obligation to i xuGistexeD, goods if Snsatfactory 7° fom native flowers Send forcirculare THE OAKLEY SOAP & JOH EDINA, PERFUMERY COMPANY: LUNDBORG., 463 Washington Gtreat, - Bester, Mann, NEW COLIC J} THE time passed very pleasantly in the Saehet Powder parlor, and it es not ul the clock and the q truck one that the lateness Of the hour struck two. 2. aa FOR SALE EVERYWHERE, For Perfuming Clothing, Handkerchiefs, | ——s—=—<CSSCSEC*idCaSG rr? ORIN DER Con Sie bos, | peer Ll” BINDER. etc., is the most fashionable form, of Perfume now in use. “| ae] CHEAP, STRONG AND DURABLE. FOR SALE EVERY WHERE. 3 7 Send te. Stamp for Sample to LADD & COFFIN, Will hold 26 Numbers. Proprietara and Manufacturers of LUNDBORGS PRAFUMERY, 2 Dauciar Staxer, New Yous. WOE PERE Mailed to any part of the United States for $1.00, postage free. Address, OFFICE OF "LIFE," 28 W. 23d Street, New York comicbooks.com