Life, 1890-03-06 · page 16 of 16
Life — March 6, 1890 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** rather than a satirical cartoon page. It features period product advertisements typical of the 1890s, with one small joke: The central humor piece is a brief **bride-and-groom joke**: A nervous bridegroom asks his bride if she's anxious. She replies (as a widow) that she's "never was yet"—implying she's experienced at marriage, having been widowed before. This plays on Victorian anxieties about female respectability and marriage. The page is dominated by **patent medicine and consumer product ads**: Soden Mineral Pastilles for coughs, Pears soap (advertising its Paris Exposition gold medal), W. Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, Bradycrotine headache remedy, Rowland's Odonto toothpowder, Barry's Tricopherous hair treatment, and Fred. Brown's Ginger for cramps. These reflect 1890s marketing practices emphasizing medical authority and international awards to sell ordinary products. The ads reveal contemporary preoccupations with health remedies, personal grooming, and consumer status symbols.
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DECKE BROTHERS’ MATCHLESS PIANOS 33 Union Square, N. Y. COUGHS, SORE THROAT. The highest medical authorities of the world prescribe and recommend the SODEN MINERAL PAS- TULLES for Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs, and also for Consumption, “T have used the Soden Mineral Pastilles and found them a most excellent remedy, which has always proved successful in my hands. I can honestly recommend their use, expectfully, SAMUEL S. MORSE, P Dr, Betcuae Hyon, foc the National and U; Soden Miceral Pastilles wi old troublesome cough. with very salialactory results, of, of New York College. At all druggists at a5 cts. and so cts. a box. Pamphlets gratis on application. SODEN MINERAL SPRINGS CO., Limited, 15 CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK. PLAY: HARACTER IN HANDWRITING accurately read. Send one page of your natural writing, with twenty-five cents and a stamp, to C. Rontxson, Calumet, Michigan. Dial Tableanx, Speakers, for School Club & Parlor Best out Gata logue free. T.8. Dasisox Chicago LIL ak et Justice.—cosmell v. Durrant —On Jan. 38, ay pranted a Perpetual Lnjunetin with cous : ‘com Osis Megulered Trace Mark CHERR' No Headache BRIDEGROOM (fremu/ously): You're not nervous, darling! BRIDE (widow—firmly): Never was yet !—Boston Budget. «« Paris . Exposition, TOUUNG 18809. Pears obtained the’ only gold medal awarded solely for toilet SOAP in competi- tion with all the world. ighest possible distinction.” Icony, soc. E Sardou's Successful Farcical Priceless Comed Ys Paragon, |“ A PRICELESS PARAGON.” MATINAPS TURSDAY, FEB. 18, AND SATURDAY. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878, “He is well paid that Wanita es is well satisfied,” as the man said who bought Nevius & Haviland’s Spring Shade Rollers. Has ye failed to yield to eSnBU Sie, 180! BARRY'S Rowland’ Odonto A pore, {ragrant, noo-gritty Tooth Powder, | Whitens the teeth, prevents and arrests decay, hardens the gums and sweetens the breath. Ask druggists for Rowland’s Odonto, of 20 Hatton Garden, Landon, Rogland. SUPERIOR Sa ERSO - EMER ON Mopé DIXON'S 2 SE PENCLS Pret besos 6 3 of Jersey City, N. J. for sarap Tarik doable the mosey, HNaaegunea nent WARRANTED! P| AN It i& worth voor troahle. If your stationer does not kee p Shem, mention, (aratocues reo. BROWN'S ange = | FRED. R COLIC. ‘An elegant dressing ex- iquisitely perfamed, removes I mparities from the scalp, prevents baldness and gray M3 hair, and causes the hair to grow Thick, Soft and Beantifal. Infallible for caring erop tlons, diseases of theskin, glands and muscles, and quick!y healing cats, burns, bralses, sprains, &c. Price, 50 Cth Al Draggtsts, BAROLAY & CO., New Yor send sé cents ia stamps to the foseph-Dixon Crocil Free Press of Charles K, Alley, New York. e808: comicbooks.com