Life, 1888-04-05 · page 19 of 20
Life — April 5, 1888 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no political cartoons or satire**—it is primarily **advertising and editorial content**. The main text is J. Wilkinson Elliott's promotional piece for hardy flowers, emphasizing their artistic and practical advantages over bedding plants. He's advertising his pamphlet "The Garden of Hardy Flowers" and offering a Japanese iris lithograph. The page includes advertisements for: - **Decker Brothers pianos** (Union Square, NY) - **Paillard's music boxes** (Broadway) - **Outing magazine** (for April) - **United States Mutual Accident Association** (insurance) There is no discernible cartoon or satirical commentary. This appears to be a standard magazine page from the early 1900s mixing editorial gardening advice with commercial advertisements typical of *Life* magazine's business model during that era.
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EADING in its artistic illustrations is the paper, “Oxrp GaRDEN FL Lowers,” in DECKER MATCHLESS PIANOS 33 Union Square, N. Y. Paillard’s MUSIC BOXES ARE THE BEST. They play selections from all the Standard and Light Operas and the most Popular Music of the Day. Send stamp for Descriptive Price List to M. J. PAILLARD & 60,, 680 Broadway, New York City. Harper’s MaGazine of December, and it is worthy of note that it is always the garden of hardy flowers, and never the |. one of “bedding plants,” that furnishes subjects for the artist’s pencil. Hardy. plants have al! artistic advantages and all FOR THE APRIL Outing Handsomely Illustrated Articles on Sport, Travel, Adventure and Recreation. practical ones as well. Their first cost being . their only cost, and their greatly increasing in size and beauty, year after year, makes an investment in them yield an annual dividend of loveliness not to be computed in any ordinary way. My pamphlet, THE GARDEN OF HARDY FLOWERS, contains much useful information about hardy plants, their culture, arrangement, etc. It is profusely illustrated with engravings made from actual garden scenes, and contains * plans for making hardy borders, beds, and groups. It will be sent with my catalogue, containing a fine colored litho- graph of the Japan Irises, on receipt of six cents for postage. J. WILKISON ELLIOTT, ASK YOUR NEWS-DEALER 2rsal Hardy Plant Specialist, PirrspurGH, Pa. (Factory at STE, CROIX, SWITZERLAND.) QE Or. > ‘ 2 oe y Siac : ee <i] yy 23 hee ae nt hf PCDI REIS Aa os He Uniqep STATES /XuTuAL AccidenT SSOCIATION. 320 ROADWAY N. (G e Wt M/s a 'e) Yh SY Biss) VW) F} a: Sivas ‘ Ros are: os RES C} Oe ee ees Rs ae dants R Pete. Seely a en NS cath Cae aes Se eae CRIS The very best accident insurance at bones rates. For particulars address secretary, James R. Pitcher, at above address. comicbooks.com