Life, 1893-06-29 · page 7 of 17
Life — June 29, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 413 This page contains a satirical cartoon dialogue titled "Almost Renewed" depicting two figures encountering each other. The accompanying text suggests a reunion scenario between former acquaintances ("You were Nellie—I was Jack"). The main cartoon shows what appears to be a social encounter, with dialogue centered on mistaken identity and marital status, ending with a suggestive punchline about marriage. Below that, a separate comic titled "Thistles" involves characters Johnson, Figs, and others discussing Johnson becoming a farmer in Jersey and his garden/truck sale. The page also lists "New Books" with various contemporary publications. Without additional historical context, the specific satirical targets remain unclear, though the humor centers on social awkwardness, mistaken identity, and the domestic/rural life comedies typical of early 20th-century Life magazine satire.
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as a parody of the Johnsonian man- ner, as the famous address spoken by the Doctor's ghost in the “ Re- jected Addresses,” This is how Mr. Watson's Dr. Johnson speaks of the thoughts in Tenayson’s “In Memoriam.” “I stick fast in their mazy turns and windings. (A/ter @ pause) | become entoiled in their labyrinthine circumplications and multiflexuous anfractuosities.” Is not this a little too close to the remark on the “Rehearsal” with which Macaulay pointed out a literary moral ? H. A. Beers, NEW BOOKS. YfONTE CARLO. MNae Chicago: Company. As the Crow Flies Dodge. New York: ‘Company. Mr, Punch's Pocket lésen. New York and London: Company. By One of the Vic- N.C. Smith and By Walter Phelps George M. Allenand By F. Anstey. Macmillan and Day and Night Sto yan. Second Series. Scribner's Sons. Broadoaks, Paul: By T. R Sulli- New York: Charles By M..G. McClelland, St. The Price-McGill Company. Dorothy, the Puritan. Augusta ampbell "Watson. New York: E. P. uutton and Company. The Drama, Addresses by Henry Irv- ing. New Vork: Tait Sonsand Company. The Great Chin Episode, By Paul Cush- ing. New York and London: Macmillan and Company. A Father of Six. By N. E, Potapecks. Translated by W. Gaussen, B, A. New York: Cassell Publishing Company. In Rue Uniform. By George 1. Putnam. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. The Shadow of Desire. By Irene Os sood. New York: The Cleveland Pub- fishing Company. Bon Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brins- ley Sheridan, Edited by Walter Jerrold. London: J. M. Dent and Company. ALMOST RENEWED. A I think we met before, You were Nellie—I was Jack. Hem ! ‘* We're rather near the door?” Well let's move a little back. Still as charming I perceive As you were in the old days When we both could still believe In each other, Time betrays— Time betrays—excuse me—hush. There is some one standing by. But I say, why was that blush? “You are married ?"—So am I. The Heiress: YtS, WHEN 1 DON'T WISH TO ACCEPT CERTAIN MEN'S ATTE THEY ASK WHERE I Live, I SAY IN THE SUBURBS. Mr, Selfsuri Ha! Hal Hal Exceccent! But we! The Heiress: IN THE SUBURBS, MR, SELFSURE, — DO YOU LIVE, Miss BROWN ? Johnson is getting to be quite a farmer since he moved over to Yep; he mad seeds, all but fifteen dollars. a garden and sold the truck for enough to pay for the ©€T)0 you think I look like Fred ? “ What, for Ned?” ‘o; Fred's brother." That's Ned.” “ Well, you know what I mean.” I've been taken for his brother.” comicbooks.com