Life, 1887-05-05 · page 14 of 16
Life — May 5, 1887 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page**, not a satirical cartoon. The page contains commercial advertisements for late 19th-century luxury goods and services targeting affluent readers. **Notable ads include:** - **Redfern** (top): A high-end women's tailor advertising fashionable clothing (walking gowns, tennis wear, yachting gowns, riding habits) - **Recamier Cream/Balm**: Beauty products endorsed by famous actresses like Lillie Langtry and Modjeska - **Arnold, Constable & Co.**: Upscale clothing retailer for London and Paris-style fashions - **W. & J. Sloane**: Luxury upholstery and home furnishings - **Vichy Water**: French mineral water marketed for medicinal purposes (gout, rheumatism, etc.) There is **one brief satirical item**: A short quip about Philadelphia's streetcar fare reduction, suggesting poor people actually lose money because they now walk less and save fewer cents. The page reflects Gilded Age consumer culture and the aspirational lifestyle marketed to wealthy New Yorkers.
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REDFERN Ladies’ Tailor. WALKING GOWNS, TENNIS GOWNS, ( YACHTING GOWNS, RIDING HABITS. 210 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. THE ENGADINE = Rouquet, Atkinson's New Perfame, This superb distillation bet. sth & 6th Aves., | sweetly recalls fragrant Swiss flowers. Bright jewels in a Tcemye | | setting of perpetual snow. AMUSEMENTS. E/DEN MUSEE, 23d Open from 11 to 11. MUNCZI LAJOS ‘Nv > PRINCE. PAUL ESTERHAZY'S ORCHESTRA, Concerts 3 to 5, 8 to 11 P. M. AoMission so Cents. CunLbren as Cents, Ajeeh, the Mystifying Chess Automaton, VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA, A PHILADELPHIA economist figures out the reduc- tion of car fares {n that city from six to five cents as a positive loss to poor people. He says that when __ | they walked before they saved six cents, and now they - aay = FAMOUS: zy | only save five cents.—Boston Herald. ——— | — PLECAMIE Ru Guaranteed to cure blotches and pimples, to heal the effects of sun and wind, and render the skin fresh and youthful. PRICES. Recamier Cream, $1.50. Recamier Balm, $1.50. RECAMIER BALM AND POWDER, | FOR THE COMPLEXION. Prepared from a recipe used for many years by the noted French Beauty, Mme. Recamier, and sever belore manu- factured for sale. lndorsed by hundreds of well-kaown Jackets and Newmarkets. women, among them Mrs. James Brown Potter, Mrs. Langtry. Mme. Modjeska, Mra. Ella Wheeler Wil- eception and vening Dress sey eee rascae Bullen whe bas cateed od | eCCeE 1 Evening Dresses, thoroughly indorses the Recamier Preparations. Sead fo | Carriage and Street Costumes and circular with copies of these letters. For sale by druggists Suits. and dealers in fancy goods everywhere, and by the sole | MBroadwary & 19th St. Aenohd, Constable & Co. London and Paris Style | | Mantles, Wraps, manufacturer and proprietor, at wholesale and retail by HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, 27 Union Square, New York. CROUCH & FITZCERALD MAKE THE MOST RELIABLE Nef TRUNKS, BAGs, THE ACENTS forget : 5 ee Belts, Etc. No risk, quick sales. Territory given, satis. faction guaranteed. Dr. SCOTT, 843 Is'way, N. Y. | UPHOLSTERY GOODS. W. & J. SLOANE | Are now showing all the latesf shades and combinations in SILK: PLUSHES, SILK DAM- | ASKS, BROCATELLES, SILK | AND WOOL TAPESTRIES, SILK AND LACE CURTAINS, &e. Also, a splendid collection of FRENCH CRETONNES in new designs and colorings especially adapted for the fur- nishing of COUNTRY HOMES. Broadway, 18th & 19th Sts. New York. “BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.” ONLY GENUINE VICHY GEO. MATHER’S SONS RINTING 60 JOHN STREET, N.Y. THIS PAPER IS PRINTED WITH OUR SPECIAL - LIFE - INK. | HAUTERIVE AND Leaiyt INK | cet¥stins fe., Be. GRANDE. GRILLE — Diseases of the Liver. IS FROM THE SPRINGS OWNED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. Prescribed for the Gout, Rheumatism, Diabetes. Gravel, Diseases of the Kidneys. HOPITAL — Diseases of the Stomach, Dyspepsia. To be had of all respectable Wine Merchants, Grocers and Druggists. JA Off we BL fro! the fro! car JA comicbooks.com