Life, 1889-07-04 · page 16 of 20
Life — July 4, 1889 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It's from Life magazine's commercial section featuring luxury goods and services circa early 1900s. The ads showcase upper-class consumer culture: high-end tailoring (Redfern), summer resort hotels (Hotel Vendome), fine gloves, and furniture. One small comic relief appears—two brief jokes about trees sighing (bottom left) and Jay Gould's wealth, reflecting contemporary public skepticism about robber baron fortunes. The page's moral tagline—"Insure in the Travelers"—is purely commercial promotion. **What's notable to modern readers:** The abundance of ads for imported luxuries (French gloves, Irish whisky, champagne) targeting wealthy women on "Eastern tours" reveals Gilded Age materialism and gender-specific marketing. Women's fashion and leisure dominate, reflecting both women's purchasing power and their social confinement to consumption and appearance.
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LADIES’ TAILOR. Fes on their Eastern tour are invited to inspect the Models of Cloth Gowns of extremely LIGHT WEIGHT designed specially for Summer wear. 240 Fifth Avenues" 1132 Broadway, HOTEL VENDOME,BOSTON. COMMONWEALTH AVENUE. Unsurpassed by any hotel in the country for the beauty of its surroundings, the excellence of its aceoramodations, and the high order of its patronage. Most desirable for wealthy families and tourists, C, H. Greenleaf & Co., Proprietors. Also, PROFILE HOUSE, White Mountains, N. H. The largest summer resort hotel in New England. ENGLISH SILK JERSEY GLOVES, © For Ladies and Children in all lengths and the most desirable colors. French and English Lisle Thread and Taffeta Gloves. “SPECIAL” “TLadies' English Pique Gloves, 4 Butt. Emb., at $1.00 per pair. Extraordinary value in Tans and Black. Saxe 1st Quality Gloves at $1.00, in Tans, Gray and Black. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention, 126%28 Cheol St Phitadelphia FOR SOLID COMFORT . IN CITY OR COUNTRY “= HAMMOQUETTE RECLINING CHAIR 1S THE CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST POP- ULAR CHAIR EVER PRODUCED. ay desired position from up- the alightest effort. T IS THE BEST Reclining, Resting, Read- ing, Invalid, Lounging, Sleeping, Steamer or Smoking Chale made. MAXIMUM OP COMPORT. MINIMUM OF EXPENSE, Mas eatey Lat ave me agency, ‘This wholesale price inclades free delivery as above. Our catalogue, showtng hundreds of testimonials from Aclighted purebasers, sent on application, Address LOVELL MFG. CO., Ltd., Erie, Pa. Fansy : How the trees moan and sigh to-night! Bonny (speaking from experience): guess you'd moan and sigh if you were as full of green apples as they are.— Pich-Me-Up. “see that Jay Gould says that he made every cent of his money by hard work. I didn’t know that Gould was a workingman.” : “Oh, yes, he is. in my last whirl at Wall Street! he worked me for ten thousand."—Chicago Herold F ORIGINAL IDEAS, SUMPTUOUS FINISH, PERFECT FIT, N.Y. Feeley & Pollinger (Formerly with Krakauer) 26 West {9th Street. Ladies’ Tatloring and Dressmaking Establishment. Their experience in London and with Krakauer enables them to of- fer stylish and novel designs at very attractive prices, Ladies re- siding out of town can have their garments made by sending measure- ment and bodice. Riding Habits a Specialty. CHAMPAGNE. Du Vivien & Co. 49 Broad St.QY. —— SPECIALTY of —— Fine Crarets & Burcunpies, KINAHAN’S THE LL IRISH WHISKY. DU VIVIER & CO , 4a Broad St, N.Y. EMERSON 255 TONE 5.000 [Eaten Sanit) MATERIALS aoe comicbooks.com