Life, 1893-02-09 · page 7 of 16
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# Page Analysis: "Life" Magazine, Page 87 **The Cartoon:** The top illustration depicts a doctor (left, in formal attire) advising a patient (right, reclining). The caption reads: "Fashionable Physician: WHAT YOU REALLY NEED IS CHANGE OF CLIMATE. / The Patient: CHANGE OF CLIMATE! Why, I've never had anything else! I'VE LIVED IN NEW YORK ALL MY LIFE." **The Joke:** This satirizes both overused medical advice and New York City's notoriously variable weather. The humor lies in the patient's deadpan response: he's *already* experienced constant climate change simply by living in New York, where weather shifts dramatically. The doctor's generic, fashionable prescription—"change of climate"—is rendered absurd when the patient points out he's lived his entire life experiencing exactly that. **Social Context:** The cartoon mocks trendy physicians who prescribe expensive climate retreats as panaceas, while simultaneously poking fun at New York's unpredictable weather patterns.
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Fashionable Physician: The Patient : WHAT YOU REALLY NEED IS CHANGE OF CLIMATE, CHANGE OF CLIMATE! WHY, I'VE NEVER HAD ANYTHING ELSE! I'VE LIVED IN NEW YORK ALL MY LIFE. “Society.” RS. T. HYPHEN-HYLL will give a dinner, to be followed by a dance, on the 17th. Mrs, Hyphen- Hyll's residence is one of the finest in the cityand she moves exclusively in the most fashionable society. Her charming daughter, Miss Gladys Hyphen-Hyll, never eats with her knife. Her grandfather, Mr. John Hill, preferred his knife to a fork, but in real breeding he was away ahead of his granddaughter. “THE engagement is announced of Miss Houray Boyse to Mr. F, Eaglebeak-Browne. The Eaglebeak-Brownes attached the final ¢ to their name nearly ten years ago, and deservedly rank high among our most fashionable families. T is considered very vulgar in fashionable society to dance in high rubber boots. *[CHERE were rumors last week of a quarrel between Mr. F. Mumblepeg Wottars and Mr. J. Bloomingdale Chumpp. Report had it that Miss Floppie Byllion was the cause, but of this we can give no official guarantee. a [ike engagement will soon be announced of the Marquis de Cherche Dot to Miss Bertha Bond, daughter of Mr. . James Bond, of Idaho. The Marquis is a young but partially decomposed representative of one of the old historic families of France. M R. G. DOBBES-FLYNTE'S new riding boots are not entirely satisfactory, as one of them is too tight over the instep. The Dobbes-Flyntes are one of our. oldest families, having held on to their money for nearly three’ generations. comicbooks.com