Life, 1887-02-03 · page 14 of 18
Life — February 3, 1887 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. The dominant elements are commercial advertisements for various products and services targeting women of the era. The main cartoon at the top depicts a **hunting or sporting scene** with well-dressed figures on horseback and foot, with a hunting horn—likely advertising or illustrating themes of leisure and social status for the magazine's upper-class readership. The page promotes: - **Ladies' Tailor services** (two locations in New York) - **Corsetry and figure-shaping** by a corset-maker named Schneider, reflecting the era's obsession with tight lacing and artificially shaped waists - **Fred Brown's Ginger** (a digestive remedy) - **Digestylin** (a patent medicine claiming to cure various digestive ailments) - **Wilbur's Cocoa** The corset advertisement is particularly notable for modern readers—it depicts the period's extreme standards for women's bodies and the medical-adjacent "solutions" marketed to achieve them. The patent medicine ads showcase the unregulated pharmaceutical industry of the time.
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LADIES’ 210 Fifth Ave., NEw YORK. Att the new and original winter mod- suitable for spring wear) to be sold un- der cost of production. kW f fy | \ “ine il SS, (il chy’? S WAN vi il ] TAILOR. SPECIAL. 1132 Broadway, NEw YORK. els of Gowns, Coats, etc. (some very WHEN CRAMPED, A BOTTLE OF FRED. BROWN’S GINGER, THO’ NOT ARTISTICALLY A THING OF BEAUTY, IS A LASTING JOY! To injurious tight lacing many of the ills of suffering womankind is, with truth, attributable; yet, many society leaders owe their recent noticeable improved form to the skill of a corsetitre who makes the systematic graduation of stays her peculiar study, ‘T'he accuracy with which she fits, contributes comfort, and, by her system of gradually read: justing superfluous flesh, reduces redundancy, lengthens the ‘waist, and prepares for the modiste the correct-shaped and flexible frame upon which to build the outer dress. Miss 1 . SCHN#IDER, of No, 274 Sixth Avenue, receives the distinction of accomplishing all that the above indicates, and her numerous patrons pronounce her corsets the acme of perfection, comfort and elegance. WILBUR’S COtsETA | knew the peculiar virtues of J. & E. ATKiNson’s, of London, | Old Brown Windsor Soap, and this generation will change it for no other. Our Mothers and Grandmothers A punster says that Adam was provided with a —Merchant Traveler. A POTENT REMEDY FOR Indigestion, Acute and Atonic Dyspepsia, Chronic and Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh, Vomiting in Pregnancy, Cholera Infantum, and in convalescence from Acute Diseases. Over 5,000 Physicians have sent to us the most FLAT- TERING OPINIONS upon DIGESTYLIN, as a REMEDY (or all diseases arising, from improper digestion. For 20 years we have manufactured the DIGESTIVE FERMENTS ex- pressly for Physicians’ use, and for the past year DIGES- TYLIN has been by them extensively pre- scribed, and to-day it stands without a rival as a digestive agent. It is not a secret remedy, buta scientific preparation, the formula of which is plainly printed on each bottle. Its great DIGESTIVE POWER is created by a careful and proper treatment of the ferments in manufac- ture. It is very agreeable to the ta:te, and accept able to the most delicate stomach. For the reliability of out statements, we would respectfully refer to the WHOLE- SALE and RETAIL DRUGGISTS of the country, and PHY- help-mate for the sake of Evening things up a litte Apwissi0n AiRRB, pay’ cory wt 1 for family use, The tinest Powdered Choco! Raquires no invaluable fer Dyspeptics Mearns, OF Betof wer dealer, or sont h can. H. 0. WILBUB & SONS, Philadelphio. SICIANS generally, Sold by Druggists, or WM. F; KIDDER & CO., 83 John St., N. Y. comicbooks.com