Life, 1892-07-21 · page 14 of 16
Life — July 21, 1892 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than editorial material or political cartoons. The dominant elements are ads for hotels, music conservatories, cut glass, tooth powder, bicycles, and other period products. The only cartoon present is a small illustration accompanying a humorous anecdote titled "HEY, BILLY, WHAT'S ALL DIS?" It depicts two figures—apparently a working-class man and an upper-class gentleman lying on the ground—with dialogue suggesting the working man is about to rob the unconscious wealthy man for lunch money. The joke relies on class-based humor common to the era: depicting poverty-stricken laborers as opportunistic around wealthy people. The page also includes brief jokes at the bottom, including one mocking a woman's ignorance about the Bible, typical of period humor. Overall, this represents a typical turn-of-the-century *Life* page mixing commercial advertisements with light, class-conscious humor.
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Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs. OPEN FOR THIS SEASON, For terms and illustrated circular, address WOOLLEY & GERRANS, PROPRIETORS. NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Founded Cart. Faetten, pestbeatouree OF MUSIC,“ Sirecor terature, od Tun! A safe and inviting Home Send for rilssrrted Calendar. HALE, Gen'I Manager, Boston, Mass JUPPER LAKE HOUSE, Tupper Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y. “The most healthful spot in the Adirondacks."— L, Loomis. Fishing ; shooting in abundance ; Gratange uacncelied house is supplied with purest mountain spring water. For circulars, sod er address T.@ 8. HATUH, Proprietors, Tupper Lake, Pub. Co., Milwaukee, Wis. WHIST PLAYERS s2reer'iihsrStomaigs H ESSENCE OF IFORNIA VIOLETS LIFE BINDER. CHEAP, STRONG anv DURABLE, WILL MOLO 26 NUMBE: ‘Mailed to any part ot the 0 v.8. for $1.00, postage free BINDER Address office o) 98 W. 23d St., New York, A yellow diamond makes a good show until it is compared with a white diamond There is the same difference in cut glass. Examine Hawkes Cut Glass. No piece without this trademark is genuine. "S ALL pis?” THIS HERE SWELL HAS LAID DOWN HERE FUR A SNOOZE AN’ I'M A GITTIN' A Thoroughly cleanses the teeth and purifies the breath. Used by people a century. “Don't Tobacco Spit Your Life Away," Is the startling, truthful title of a little book just re ceived, telling all about Noftodac, the wonderful, harm- tess, economical, guaranteed cure for the tobacco habit in every form. Tobacco users who want to quit and can’t, by mentioning Lire can get the book mailed free. Ad= tle THE “STERLING REMEDY CO, Box a6 Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind. A PorTLano physician and a Bath theologian were in the Bowdoin Medical School recently. examining mi- croscopic slides of peculiar glands. The physician be- yan a scientific discussion, and the clergyman, becom- ing wearied of the subject, exclriimed : “You doctors know so much about the uncertainties of this world, that I should think you would not want jereupon, the physician retorted : ‘ou theologians tell us so much about the uncer- tainties of the next world that we don’t want to die!" Argonaut, Mrs, Watts :_ How is your girl? Mrs. Bons: Oh, she’s a perfect heathen! I left her to straighten things up before the minister called, and she never even dusted off the Bible.—Exchange. Sold Everywhere. EVERY man feels instinctively that all the beautiiul sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.—Lowell. Fedora BICYCLES ON EASY-PAYMENT PLAN. pliant peel aa uae ae des rare Henao cite is ee res Petes feet pista and" athlete DRESS SHIELDS, BEST IN THE WORLD, At Macy's, Bloom- dale's Ridley’s, Hearn's, and at i Grst-class ‘stores, PECK & SNYDER, 126 Nassau &t., N.Y. comicbooks.com