Life, 1891-08-27 · page 10 of 14
Life — August 27, 1891 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Satirical Social Commentary on Women's Business Enterprise This page from *Life* magazine satirizes upper-class women entering business. The right illustration shows a fashionably dressed woman displaying portrait paintings for sale—a genteel entrepreneurial venture. The accompanying text mocks this trend, suggesting wealthy women are taking up small business projects (portrait sales, hotel management) as summer hobbies rather than serious work. The central illustration depicts people fishing at what appears to be a resort or watering hole, supporting the text's discussion of seasonal leisure activities. The satire targets the contradiction: these women claim to be conducting "booming business," yet they treat commerce as a fashionable pastime. The text sarcastically notes they're helping themselves while earning "a fat commission"—implying their business pursuits are more about social performance than genuine economic necessity or serious entrepreneurship.
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- LIFE: NOTES FROM THE WATERING-PLACES. MB MICHEL EAU-BRAIGNE Jed the cotillion at Mrs IVA Sylvester Wynkoop-Hamersley’s Newport cottage, last Thursday. One set of favors consisted of ten-dollar bills with the Wynkoop crest hand-painted on the reverse. T is said that wicked Asbury Park is wickeder than usual this season and the authorities have been obliged to prohibit the sale of chewing-gum Mrs. Swartzman Ickelheimer's cottage at Long Branch, was the scene of a delightful entertainment Saturday evening The guests were requested to wear ad all their diamonds r arrival they were ushered into 9 dimly lighted parlor, and several hours were spent in enjoying the phos- phorescent glea the gems. ‘The archery tournamentat Tenaweek- was a great aly disturb- being the between two of the guests. In ® © * Sam doing a booming business this Summer. I have advertised * Fishing right off ¢ ° the * Hotel Piazza," and the aah Bia hi RY AS MANY YOUNG LADIES IN guests get it every time. h He lave PRIVATE LIFE SEEM TO ENJOY The: hire of thedivers,@ WM). ihe 4 Th HAVING THEIR PORTRAITS ON fresh crate of fish from the HN Wiis PUBLIC SALE, WHY NOT GO A city every day, ¢te., makes it | , LITTLE STEP FURTHER AND DO come rather expensive, but it Hi ; i THE BUSEN THEMSELVES, faye ie the long run. Soine Hd i { THEREKY SAVING A FAT coM- chump sent mea South Amer- \ Vy Urt | MISSION ? sean electric eel the other day and almost gave the snap \ tel | a | 2 consequence Mr, Charlie Lambly away, besides frightening \ { i) ) has returned to his duties in the some of the boarders, but I got F { : ribbon department at Lac @ scientific friend of mine, } and Mr. Willie Tittums, of the who hasn't paid his board. s, toexplain it a hosiery department, declares that Ys ° . he will never speak to him again. and i's all gring swimmingly The Garden Party at the Silver Pe © Spring House was marred by the m a confidential “ - sudden advent of a thunder-storm. a Summer hotel It was a picturesque sight to see the ladies remove their white can- vas ties and rush for the piazzas in their stocking-feet. The Baroness von Keingeld is at Newport, the guest of her par- ents, the Reddimons, of Pitts burgh. She is en route to Dakota. comicbooks.com