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# "The Girl from Narragansett Pier" This page from the September 7, 1893 issue of *Life* magazine features a satirical cartoon about broken engagement promises. The illustration shows two women in conversation; one seated woman appears distressed while addressing another. The caption's dialogue reveals the joke: a man promised to end his summer engagements at Narragansett Pier (a fashionable Rhode Island resort) but failed to do so. The seated woman sarcastically suggests he should have made "none but summer ones" instead—implying he maintained multiple simultaneous engagements rather than discontinuing them as promised. The cartoon satirizes the social pretense and romantic duplicity of the era's leisure class, mocking a gentleman's casual infidelity and broken commitments to different women.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
VOLUME XXII. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 7, 1803. NUMBER 558. Entered at the New York Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. Copyright, 183, by Mircnet, & Mitcer, THE GIRL FROM NARRAGANSETT PIER. “How I HATE BREAKING OFF AN ENGAGEMENT !" “YOU SHOULD MAKE NONE BUT SUMMER ONES, THEN YOU WOULDS'T HAVE TO, YOU SIMPLY DISCONTINUE THEM,” comicbooks.com