A doctor and colonel discussing the medical prognosis of the new (modern) woman. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1895.

Dialogue includes: "By the way, doctor, the 'new woman', don'tcherknow what'll she be like when she's grown old?" "My dear colonel, she'll never grow old!" "Great Scott! You don't mean to say she's going to last for ever!" "She won't even last out the century! She's got every malady under the sun!"