Life — March 14, 1895 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Extract “ BEEF Used by all good cooks, Send address for Cook Book. Armorr & Co., Chicago. "LA. MARQUISE” OCSGN PATENTED ELD & BARTON 13 MAIDEN LANE son” New york. Orrices TAUNTON, MASS cmcaco ornce demronncrom or Be) arering BES, Que GOODS SOLO By THE LEADING JEWELERS Not long ago. a certain authoress, whose talents do not extend to the field of ‘The authoress read in a jcution, gave readings {rom her works at Mrs. Boree's ‘* salon.” A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS. INCREASED FACILITIES OF A FIRM OF Na- TIONAL REPUTATI IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLISHING CIRCLES, From the New York Tribune, Feb. 15, 185. The well-known Advertising Agency and Publishing business of Herbert Booth King & Brother, which has long been one of the land-marks of lower Broadway, New York, will transfer their main office to Madison Square about March 1st, using their down- town office as a branch establishment. They will occupy the first floor of their new build- ing, 32 East 23d N. Y., which is adja- cent to their Printing Establishment on 22d street. Their new offices face Madison Square and are opposite the entrance to the new Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's building. They will connect with their down- town branch by telephone and pneumatic tubes, so that no time will be lost in‘commu- nicating with the various newspaper estab- lishments, With their facilities for setting up and stereotyping advertisements in their own establishment, and almost instantancous- ly delivering copy to the newspapers, the; will be enabled to work carefully and expedi- tiously for their customers. A feature of their new offices will be the Art and Literary Departments, where the special work of pre- paring advertising matter will be undertaken. Herbert Booth King & Brother, besides controlling one of the largest advertising businesses of the country, also own a large iRedtern COURT DRESSMAKER. LONDON AND PARIS. EXHIBITION OF Paris and London Models, Exclusive Materials, SILK BLOUSES and WAISTS, COATS, GOWNS and WRAPS. IN THEIR onus tone several essays, and then a realistic story, in which no one did anything. | printing establishment, wherein is’ printed r. Bore succeeded, during the reading of the story, in making his escape into an ante- | every sort and kind of ‘circular, catalogue or pa by a roundabout way. The door of the ante:room was shut. In this room Mr. | periodical, including their own very success-| bree found, asleep in a chair, the footman whose duty it was to usher in visitors. Mr. | ful publication, FAsHIoNs, which has already shook him rudely by the shoulder. *: Wretch !" he said, in a hoarse whisper, ‘* you've | attained a circulation of a quarter of a million listening at the keyhole!" —Argonaut, copies. NEW YORK HOUSE, 210 Fifth Avenue. Life’s Monthly Calendar FOR MARCH, Contains The “*Trilby’’? Examination. ‘or the best replies to the following questions a prize of Twenty-five Dollars for the best set, Fifteen Dollars for the second best, and Ten Dollars for the third best will be awarded. 1, What does the author claim as the king of all instruments ? 6. In what places does the author compare Gecko to a dog ? Vho does he claim was the greatest violinist of his time? What | 7. How old was Trilby when she died ? : foes he call the most bourgeois piece of music he knows ? 8, What was Little Billee’s physical explanation of his inability to 2, What was Svengali's real name? love? 3 Where does the author state that he is a social lion? g. What verbal description of one of the heroes contradicts almost oes he deny that he is a snob ? every one of the author's drawings of him? 4 Where does he bring Little Billee in contact with Punch ? 1o, What incident of the story is inconsistent with the author's own 5. What did the Laird call M. le général Comte de la Tour-aux-Loups ? | argument in behalf of the nude in art ? Where For Conditions Governing the Contest see the CALENDAR. pl.oo a Year. Ten Cents a Copy. LIFE’S MONTHLY CALENDAR, 19 West Thirty-first Street, New York City.