Life — September 6, 1883 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Life" Page - "Stomach Bitters" This page appears to be titled ".LIFE" on the left margin and shows "STOMACH BITTERS" text in the center of the illustration. The image itself is a satirical sketch depicting what appears to be a landscape or natural scene with various figures and a building structure. The drawing style is characteristic of 19th-century satirical illustration, rendered in ink with loose, expressive linework. Without clearer visibility of specific figures or more legible text in the image, I cannot definitively identify the particular political or social commentary this cartoon makes. The reference to "stomach bitters" suggests it may be satirizing patent medicines or health cure-alls that were common advertising subjects in Life magazine during that era, though the exact satirical point remains unclear from this reproduction.