Life, 1888-05-17 · page 18 of 18
Life — May 17, 1888 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertisement page**, not a satirical cartoon page. It features various product ads typical of early 20th-century American magazines. The only humor content is a brief **joke about Chief Justice M.W. Fuller**: the caption notes he has eight daughters, each with her own piano, and quips "That's the way he dispenses justice"—a pun suggesting he "distributes" or provides for them generously. This is gentle social satire about wealth and judicial authority, playing on the notion that a Supreme Court justice can afford such luxuries. The rest of the page advertises pianos, music boxes, champagne, soap, trunks, and lawn tennis equipment—typical commercial offerings. **Pears' Soap** includes a substantial descriptive text promoting its gentleness for infants' delicate skin, representing the era's marketing of personal hygiene products. The ads reflect **Gilded Age commerce** and consumer culture aimed at affluent readers.
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DECKER es BROTHERS’ 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. (Factory at STE. CROIX, SWITZERLAND.) DELBECK-- EXTRA DRY and Procurable Everywhere. AIOYMSIOAT o[quinsosg PEARS’ SOAP IS A PURE SOAP, CONTAINING LITTLE OR NO WAT! 'D NO COLORING MATTER, and therefore well calculated to cleanse and purify; while the ce g substances tends to render # We offer the DELBECK CHAMPAGNES | «™llient and soothing to the most delicate with a full conviction that there are If common soaps are irritating to the s no better wines imported, to the delicate skin of the infant and young child, but Pears s used and recommended by thousands of intelliges mothers throughout the civilized world, because, while serving as a detergent and cleanser, its emollient propertis WE EXCEPT NONE prevent the chafing and discomfort to which infants are so liable. It has been established in London 100 years, andl E. LAMONTAGNE & SONS, _ | has received 15 international awards, 53, 55 and 57 Beaver Street. =e GROUCH & FITZGERALD | ..cumrJestice-evecr M. W. Futter has cigt daughters, and each of them has her own piano} MAKE THE BEST That's the way he dispenses justice. —Buffalo Expres ee Ee TRUNKS & BaGs. “BLACK TOP” PLAY i H 723 Sixt Ave., below gad St., Te Nhs toro cour TR RO ‘The connecting link of Pullman travel between Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Florida Resorts: THE BEST CHAMPAGNE. Send fF COS 9, meCormick, G. P. A., chteago. | Francs 0, de Luze & Co., Sole Agents, ILY. ion comicbooks.com