Life, 1892-01-28 · page 9 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 53 This page contains two fictional stories with accompanying illustrations: **"Chipper Becomes Young Again"** (top): A fairy tale about a magical rose that rejuvenates an aging man named Chipper, though it causes his wife Stillabel to die of heartbreak. The moral warns against infidelity and vanity. **"A Name"** (bottom): A brief piece discussing the recent death of Pierre d'Alcántara (a Spanish nobleman with an extremely long formal name), arguing that lengthy names provide "protection against the fell destroyer" (death). It humorously advises American mothers against giving their sons similarly elaborate names like "Peter of Newark" or "Gabriel Sebastian Christina of Robinson." Both are lighthearted moral tales typical of Life's satirical fiction—the first a cautionary romance, the second gentle mockery of aristocratic naming conventions.
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* LIFE: occurred before the enterprising fairy realized her folly, Although she was very angry with the merry Chipper, she saw it would never do to make him an old man again as his youthful bride had done nothing to deserve such a punish- ment. Poor Stillabel began to fade away—and it was very evident to the enterprising fairy that she was dying of a broken heart. She was powerless to save her, particularly as Stillabel in- sisted upon dying, now that she had nothing to live for. She freely forgave the cruel Chipper, and her dying request was IME UKOKEN HEARTED STILLABEL into the sleeping Chipper’s bedroom at dead of night and again blowing a powder up his unconscious nose. ‘This time it was no elixir for renewing youth, but an enchanted essence from the rose itself, and the distress it wrought on Mr. Greylock was dire and long drawn out. Chipper loves this rose and admires its beauty, but every June, for then is the anniversary of his wedding, the fragrance of the flower gives him a violent, malicious and most un- dignified cold in the head which nothing can cure and which clings to him until it is ready to leave. His swollen nose and dewy eyes make life a burden, He feels again like a very old man, but ten times older than ever before, And thus it affects many others who are faithless in their loves, for it has spread about the land and blossoms CHIPPER BECOMRS YOUNG AcaIN. So the gentle Stillabel remains forever a thing of beauty that she might become a beautiful rose, and blossom forever and a warning to the wicked. There are, and of course beneath the window of her faithless lover. This, of course, there always will be, victims of the rose who protest their was granted by her godmother; but after poor Stillabel’s innocence, but the guilty were ever thus. death she could not resist the temptation of stealing again SoA. Mitchell, A NAME. recent death of Pierre d'Alcantara Marie de Guadalupe Therese Isabel Franci d'Assise Gabriel Sebastien Christine de Bourbon y Bourbon, Duke of Dural, a grandee of Spain and a member of the Spanish royal family, encourages the belief that an additional length to one’s name is no protection against the fell destroyer. The fact that Mr. Bourbon was a youngish man in the prime of life, tends still further to show the inadequacy of his various cog- nomens as a safeguard Let American mothers take warning from this and refrain from giving their sons such names as Peter of Newark, Maria of Jonesboro, Teresa Isabella Frank MAN OLD RETAINER.” of Springfield, Gabriel Sebastian Christina of Robinson and Robinson. comicbooks.com