Life, 1890-01-30 · page 15 of 16
Life — January 30, 1890 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page combines political content with period advertising. The main cartoon depicts an Irish domestic servant ("Bridget") in a standoff with her employer. The employer threatens to make her "jump" if she leaves, but Bridget refuses to budge, saying she knows "that same" (his threat) and will simply wait until he changes his mind. The joke satirizes the power dynamics between Irish immigrant servants and American employers—Bridget's passive resistance subverts the expected hierarchy, suggesting working-class immigrant women had leverage through indispensability. The bulk of the page advertises the *North American Review's* January issue, promoting a major free-trade debate between British politician W.E. Gladstone and American congressman James G. Blaine—framed as historically significant. The right column contains typical period luxury advertisements: French olive oil, champagne, silk dress fabrics, and dubious "health exercisers" promising physical development.
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“I 1 Get OUT OF THIS, BRIDGET, BUT I'LL MAKE YOU yuMP!” “Fait as? I KNOW THAT SAME, $0 I'LL JUST SIT HERE TILL YOU CHANGE YOUR MOIND, THAT'S ALL.” (And she does.) Should the United States adopt the Policy of Free Trade? A HISTORIC DISCUSSION. The Controversy in the January number of the NorRTH AMERICAN REVIEW, BETWEEN RT. HON. W. E. GLADSTONE AND HON. JAMES G, BLAINE, will take rank among the great literary events of history. The discussion will be continued in the Review by HON. ROGER Q. MILLS, Framer of the Mills Bill, and SENATOR JUSTIN MORRILL, Framer of the Morrill Bill, and Other Distinguished Statesmen. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. The January number also contains : WOMAN'S VIEWS ON DIVORCE, by Mary A. Livermore, Amelia E. Barr, Rose Terry Cooke, Jennie June, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; also, THe Lire or Ropert E. Lee, by the late Jefferson Davis; Bvy-Gone Days 1N Boston, by C. K. Tuckerman ; A Romance or OLp Rome, by Rodolfo Lanciani; A PLEA For CopyricHT, by Count Emile de Keratry; ‘THE BorpeR Lanp oF Science, by Prof. R. H. Thurston ; How I BECAME AN ASTRONOMER, by Camille Flammarion, etc. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS. 50 cents a number; 85,00 a year. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, NEW YORK, Very Finest LIVE OIL. A. BERBIE & CO., Bordeaux. Pronounced by Epicures to be tl.e Finest Salad Oil in the market. Du Vivier & Co., 49 Broad St., N. Y. Imoorters of Fine Wines, Brandies, &c. CHAMPACNE. ? EVENING BALL DRESSES GRENADINES, CREPES, GAZES. Pekin Raye, Broche and Embroidered Styles from recent arrivals, showing much novelty. LYONS SILKS For Street and Reception Dress. WHITE SILKS AND SATINS FOR BRIDAL DRESS. Broadway & 19th St. FACIAL DEVELOPMENT. ill mail you rules to develop mus- cles of cheeks and neck to make them plump and rosy, fully illus- trated, for 60 Cents. Also rules for Dumbbells to develop every muscle f nd D. L. Down, Scientific, Physical = and Vocal Culture. (Address, No, 31 School, 9 East 14th 8t,, New Yor 0. L. DOWD’S HEALTH EXERCISER. Fe j-Worxers and Sapanta' Gentlemen, Ladies, Youths ; e of Invalid. A’ complete ‘Takes up but six inches. Wuare floor-room ; new, scientific, dur- Bg «Ps, comprehensive, cheap. seindorsed _ adil by 20,000 physicians, lawyers, clergymen, pee cSitors asd others bow using it.) Send for illust'd circular, 40 eng's; no charge, Prof. D. L. Dowd, Scientific Physical and Vocal Culture. 9 Rast xqthStreet, New York. comicbooks.com