Life, 1895-07-11 · page 14 of 16
Life — July 11, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **advertising page** from an early 1900s issue of *Life* magazine, with one satirical piece embedded among product promotions. The main satirical content is **"Not a Poke,"** which mocks women's fashion. The joke concerns sleeve construction: twenty ladies crowded into a car—when exiting, only three needed to reshape their sleeves. The seventeen with sleeves lined with "Fibre Chamois" maintained their shape naturally, while imitation materials required constant poking and adjusting. The satire targets women who buy cheap knockoff fabrics that fail to hold their intended silhouette, forcing wearers into the undignified habit of perpetually fussing with their clothing. The surrounding ads peddle era-appropriate goods: dress stays, water crackers, fabric treatments, suspenders, patent medicines (Piperazin Water for gout), perfume, and beer extract—typical of *Life*'s mix of humor and commerce.
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A Trilby Foot or any other sort requires nice boots and a neat skirt edge ; the Bias Velveteen Skirt Bindings do not deface the shoes and give the most elegant finish to the skirt edge. A set of the'S. H. & i ture figures showing the latest Parisian cost -d for 10c. in stamps. The S.H. & M.Co.. x 699, New York. “S.H.&M."' Dress Stays are the Best CRVTVTVVTVVVVTVSTVSVUSVAE Beware of Imitations. We haye made and sold the original Hand- Made Water Cracker for 04 years. Every Cracker is stamped simply and plainly. oe uD $ oe 2 Seca SPs 4 Seven letters only! No more, no less! Count them,and accept no cracker stamped otherwise if. se want the original. ESTABLISHED 1801. ee ee de ee ee ee ee Sa SPOTS MUD SPOTS SALT WATER SPOTS ON YOUR DRESS Avoid this annoyance by buying only dress goods stamped ‘‘Pluette”’ on back every five yards. Manufactured and waterproofed by THE PLUETTE Com- PANY. All. first-class retailers can supply ** PLUETTE.”” Essence XG) ©0F<> HES W ere liy asting “than any nt of its name. A pecially par excellence. a All the rage in Europe at @ the present time. Be sure that you get the “No. 4711 Rhine Violets” MULHENS & KROPFP, New York, U. S. Agents PABST MALT EXTRACT There is substance to It; It Is vivitying, life producing; gives vim and bounce—it braces. The “BEST”? Tonic... Milwaukee Beer Is famous. Pabst has made It so. re: Nota me § Twenty ladies crowded in a car— when they got out three poked their sleeves into shape—seventeen didn’t, for their’s were interlined with FIBRE CHAMOIS. The wearers of the imitations are always poking and jerking their sleeves into the shape that doesn’t stay. SKE! AS! KS! HS KS BEARING “ HES THIS C a GESTE| ompuliaee Eee ELASTIC CORD MAKES THEM sO. NAME ARE THE keeps them. Fifzy cents and upwards. Cheaper model at 25 cents, Sample pairs mailed for price. Look for “graduated” cord and the name on every pair. CHESTER SUSPENDER CO., - No. 7 Decatur Avenue, ROXBURY, MASS. GOUT? » oe RP WATER Pampnccr Face. S-a-n-a-d-o-r Skia Soap. RECOMMENDED FOR Gravel, Calculus, Lazy Liver, and all Uric ; Acid Troubles. LEHN & FINK, Agents, New York. WILL CURE IT. has reason to sigh and shed tears, sighs and tears are no longer becoming to her.—Atchison Glebe. is pure, sweet, and harmless. It contains no poisonous By the time a woman has reached the age when she | antiseptics. Most other soaps do.