Life, 1891-05-07 · page 9 of 14
Life — May 7, 1891 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 289 This page features a dramatic illustration accompanying a theatrical scene description. The text describes a melodramatic plot involving a long-lost father and mother reuniting with their son, concluding with a death from "heart-failure." The villain announces he'll change his identity, keeping the name "Mr. Bowie" and the alias "until my death." The illustration shows three figures in period dress meeting on a tree-lined path—likely depicting this emotional reunion scene. The page also lists "New Books" by contemporary authors including works by Sarah Orne Jewett and Douglas Fairbanks. The lower portion includes what appears to be a reader advice column directing someone named "Mr. Hardy" to write a letter of condolence regarding a young woman who left home and married.
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Ladies and gentlemen : You have witnessed a most tragic episode. An incident has transformed this mirthful evening To a night blasted by the most terrible guest That could visit an assemblage. A long-lost father is dis- covered by his son with the following outbreak of filial emotion : Father! Dad! © my father! is this reality ? Here! You! after all these years. And the same boy discov- ers his long-lost mother, with equally fine emotional force: Mother! (Ao/ds out hand.) Perhaps Mama woula sound more like home ! Mama, dear, are you glad to see your boy ? This epoch-making drama closes with a death from heart-failure, and the hero- villain announces, as the cur- tain falls, that Till future cause for change ar- Fives My father's name shall remain Mr. Bowie. I shall continue the alias until my death, Droch. NEW BOOKS. TERRY. By Sarah Barnwell El- liott.. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Zadoc Pine and Other Stories. By H.C. Bunner. | New Vork: Charles Scribner's Sons. Jugeernaut. By George Cary Eggleston and Dolores Marbourg. New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, He Fell Among Thieves. By D. Christie: Murray’ and Henry fer man, Memoirs of the Prince de Tate leyrand. Edited by the Due de Wroghe. Volume If. New York and” London: G. P.” Putnam's Sons. Edward the Black Prince. By Douglas B. W. Sladen. New York: The Cassell Publishing Company. The Spanish Armada. By Douglas —B. W. Sladen. New York: The Cassell Publishing Company. A Poetry of Exiles By Douglas BW, Siaden. “New York: The Asse Publis! x ye " vou 36 E be vy AEGIS, Be euas Miss F. (whose parents refuse to recognize her fiancé): \¥ YOU MAD A DAVONTER, MR, HARDY W. B Sladen.” New York: The — w, ND MARRIED A YOUNG MAN, WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO THE YOUN Cassell Publishing Company, WHO'RAN AWAY, FROM! HOME: # x! mond the Cram. By: Nero.” MAN? Publishing Company. Mr. Hardy: WRITE WIM A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE, comicbooks.com