Life, 1894-09-20 · page 15 of 16
Life — September 20, 1894 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with one small cartoon joke. **The Cartoon:** "Little Jimmy Carroll" depicts a child warning his infant brother that once he's old enough to "lick" (eat solid food), their mother won't give him money anymore—she hasn't given Jimmy a cent since the baby arrived. The joke reflects early-20th-century domestic economics: children were financial burdens, and parents resented supporting multiple kids. **Notable Context:** The advertisements reveal period concerns. Bromo Soda promises relief for "Sleeplessness, Excessive Study, Over Brainwork"—suggesting anxiety about modern life's pace. Kodak ads emphasize cameras as accessible consumer products. Whiskey is marketed openly. A lengthy notice about Life magazine's new bachelor apartments jokingly worries these comfortable dwellings might discourage men from marrying—reflecting anxieties about changing social patterns and bachelorhood as a lifestyle choice rather than necessity.
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KODAKS Embody every advantage of the most com- piste magazine and view cameras, but are far lighter and more compact and less liable to get out of order. KODAKS have The Best Lenses, Shutters that are easy to regulate and positive in action, Rack and Pinion, and index for focusing, * View Finders for horizontal and vertical exposures, Automatic Registers for counting the expos- ures, |S © OOO O80 8SSSESGSG68 | Automatic Tension for keeping the film flat at all times. Seven Styles use either plates or films, and can be focused with the index or on the ground glass, 17 STYLES AND EASTMAN KODAK CO. sizes. £0.00 108100 00. Rochester, N.Y. Catalogue Free. Little Jimmy Carrol (to infant brother): OH, JUST WAIT TILL YOU GIT OLD ENOUGH TO LICK. Wos't YOU CATCH IT? MOTHER AIN'T GIVE ME A CENT SIKCE YOU ARRIVED. For Headache and Brain Fatigue. O' Beautiful Shades S| gROMS Of Light © commas ; Qa about 50 shapes and 200 styles 8 4 of exquisite silk lamp shades free i asamp * booley of | superb Useful in Sleeplessness, Excessive Study, 8 8S: Over Brainwork, Nervous _Debility, Boston Art Lamp Suave Co. 1 West Dyspepsia, Fatigue of Travel or Street, near Washington Street, Boston. Shopping. Or For sale by all leading Druggists by dose or bottle. Do not sell Mixed or Compounded Goods. Price according to age. No other house can furnish Old Back numbers of Lire can be had) 4@ YEARS IN FULTON ST. Grow” mye Whiskey. Sold by us uncolored, un- « 3 ee _ sweetened. The Robert Stewart Rye Whiskey. by applying at this office, 19 and 21 Bottled at the Distiller, The best Eastern Rye. Sole agents ‘al 7 1 for the Pleasant ley Wine Co. Sole agents for West 31st Street, New York City. _D. ir 0. the Inglenook Wines. Send for Catalogue. Single copies of Vols. I. and II. out of 69 Fulton St., Broadway & 27th St., New York. print. Vol. I., bound, $30.00. Vols. IL, VUIL, XIII. and XIV. $20.00 each, bound. Vols. VII., X., XI., The comfort and Inenry of the apartments XIL, XV. and XVI., $15.00 each, bound. Vols. IIL, IV., V., VI. IX., XVII.and XVIII., $10.00 each, bound. Vols. XIX., XX., XXI. and XXII, $5.00 each. Back num.| | Muatted to bachelors. bers, one year old, 25 cents per copy. A few apartments are still vacant on the in LIFE’S new building have been criticised as having a bad effect upon bachelors in dis- couraging matrimony. But the tenants are not Subscribers wishing address third, fourth and sixth floors. changed will greatly facilitate mat- ters by sending old address as well as new.