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"Drug Dam" ("The Ladies' Friend")
The Ladies' Friend
also: Друг дам
A wholly fictitious women's-interest journal invented for this squib, complete with a mock editress and a fake table of upcoming articles -- Chekhov's parody of the era's flood of frivolous ladies'-magazine journalism.
Reading notes
- Advertisements and Notices §1 "The Ladies' Friend"
An invented journal name, mocking the flood of frivolous women's-interest periodicals of the day; the mock "Ed. note" and citation to a real journal that follow are part of the parody's apparatus of fake authority.