Life, 1889-08-15 · page 15 of 16
Life — August 15, 1889 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains mostly **advertising** (Kodak cameras, pianos, tailoring services, soap) with one brief **cartoon joke** about courtship norms. ## The Cartoon The small comic sketch depicts a young woman named "Sal" and a "wicked suitor." He jokingly conflates "dress parade" (a military gathering where young men gathered) with church attendance—implying both are the same occasion because unmarried women were chaperoned and socialized at military parades, just as at church. Her complaint that he equates church with a parade for meeting girls is the joke—he's crudely suggesting military gatherings were primarily venues for courting, not civic events. The humor relies on mocking the suitor's transparent dating strategy. ## Context This reflects early-1900s anxieties about courtship and the limited, chaperoned social spaces where young men and women could meet—both religious and quasi-military settings being "respectable" backdrops for romance. The rest of the page is commercial advertising typical of Life's era.
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The Kodak “Vou press the button, we do the vest.” The only camera that Price, $25,00. anybody: can use with- Leaded for t00 Pictures. out instruction, For sale by all Photo. Stock Dealers. Send for copy of Kodak Primer with sam- ple photograph. NOTICE OF REMOVAL JRRAKAUER LADIES’ TAILOR HAS REMOVED TO 391 Fifth Avenue (Above 36th Street.) Wicked Suttor: DiD YOU GO TO DRESS PARADE THIS AFTERNOON, SAL? . . Sal: | WENT TO CHURCH. Patrons and Ladies’ visiting Wicked Suitor: WELL, THAT'S WHAT I MEANT. New York are respectfully in- TAKE. IT ALONO, OsGUODBY's * F Correspondence School vited to examine my fresh Nov-| To the mountain or the sea-shore, wherever you go your ROCHESTER, N. Y. < ; hair-brush and tooth-brush unfailingly accompany you, but Synopsis for scent stamp. elties and Importations. why not your soap? The article that is provided for your use at the hotel or in the cabin or in the car is quite likely to be of the vilest description, burning and poisoning the skin and destroying its smoothness and beauty. If on the otber hand you take with you your home cake of Pears’ ich is the best of atl soaps, you insure refreshing wholesome and beautiful complexion. Decoration Furniture Curtains = ae BINDER 133 FIFTH AVE. —— CHEAP, STRONG AND JOHN PATTERSON & CO., DURABLE. TAILORS AND IMPORTERS, ‘Will hold 26 Numbers. Mailed to any part of the United States PATTERSON BUILDING, for $1.00, postage free, Nos. 25 and 27 West 26th Street, ADDRESS: . OFFICE OF “LIFE,” 28 W. 23d Street,'New York. NEW YORK.