Life, 1895-08-01 · page 2 of 14
Life — August 1, 1895 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is predominantly **advertising rather than satire or editorial content**. The main visual elements are: 1. **Upper left**: A decorative silver pitcher/stein from the New York Yacht Club, advertising Whiting M'fg Co.'s sterling silver goods. 2. **Lower right**: A photograph of a young child with what appears to be a dog, advertising Anheuser-Busch beer. The text sections discuss women's fashion suits and boys' clothing in straightforward product descriptions, along with advertisements for ice cream freezers and refrigerators. There is **no apparent political satire or social commentary** visible. The page represents typical early 20th-century magazine advertising mixed with general merchandise information, with no identifiable caricatures or satirical intent.
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New York Yacur Ciup. Won by “PRISCILLA.” Solid Silver (Exclusively.) WHITING M’F’G CO Silversmiths, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING ARTICLES STAMPED STERLING §* SERVE TO EMPHASIZE THI IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVING THE MAKER'S MARK. We maxe Soup Sinver ony, OF STERLING QUALITY Y¥ ERY ARTICLE BEARING OUK TRADE-MARK THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURR ENTIRE FREEDOM FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS, Broadway & 18th St., NEW YORK. BROADWAY ind OreE10nSes. POURTH AVE. ‘Successons roA TSiwant & Co, BROADWAY PAEIOASs FOURTH AYE. DO YOU WATCH THE STORE? Y The grandest object lesson in advanced storekeeping we know of is under this roof. Merchants of two hemispheres are watching, wondering—imitating more or less. WOMEN’S SUITS. No, they are not samples made to or- der, but the artists who designed them kely paid more than any dress- maker in town would have given. It would be extravagance, not economy, to| be behind the style, when dresses are made by-the hundred. Women’s short, jaunty blazer duck Suit ripple back, large sweep skirt, plain co ors, small dots and stripes, $1.50; the $3 and $3.50 kind. Very pretty fine lawn Suits, stripes and figures, trimmed with embroidery and ribbon, very tull skirt, 81.50 and $2.50; the $2.50 and $4.50 kinds. Women's Suits of very tine Percale, neat stripes, Norfolk jacket with very large Sleeves with pleats. collar and cuffs piped with solid colors, very full sweep skirt, from $5. Very fine dotted Swiss Suits, crushed col- lar, ruffles over shoulders, some trimmed with embroidery, others with lace, full sweep skirt, wide hem, $3; have ‘been $9 to $11.50, Blazer Suits of very fine pique, white ground with fancy blue, red and black Stripes, large sailor collar, extra rever in front ;" collar, rever and ‘cuffs trimmed with insertion, large full sweep skirt, deep hem, 86; have been $9.50. | IF THE BOYS RUN WILD, as they ought to, the clothes will suffer. Scems wasteful. Itisn't. You can't get | good, red blood into a boy cheaper than to let him bang it in through holes in his trou But, with a little foresight, you can get tough, stylish clothes for very little money. Boys’ double light blue of white b to nine ye: Boys’ all and sol twilled Galatea Sailor Suits, nd spray stripes, with four rows, ‘on collar and shield, three patent and 7Be. Boys’ fine white straw Hats, black band and leather sweat band, all sizes, Se. and $1 kind: ¢ Sailor Collars, red-and-white stripes, B0e.; from $i. JACK FROST IN HARNESS. Refrigerators, Ice Cream Freezers, Water Coolers—every approved ice device for chilling the eatables and drinkables, and cheering the women folk—and other folk Eddy Refrigerators, 85.75 to $65. fewert Refrigerators, $6.45 to #3250. ilton, Hughes & Co. gt, B1.45. Sqt. $1.83. ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS'N, Celebrated Brands of Bottled Beer. For the Vacht, the Camp, the Sea Shore and the Mountains. Bottled a the Breed . expressly for Securely packed. Send for price list to. 0. MEYER & CO., Sole Agents, New Forwarded to any address in four to ten dozen packs mily and Club use. ten doten Bee ‘ork City. comicbooks.com