Life, 1895-10-03 · page 24 of 26
Life — October 3, 1895 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The central cartoon, titled **"Not a Poke,"** is a humorous social commentary on women's fashion. It mocks the impracticality of sleeves lined with "fibre chamois"—a material that doesn't hold its shape. The joke: twenty ladies exited a carriage; three poked their sleeves back into form, but seventeen couldn't because their sleeves were lined with this inferior material. The cartoon satirizes both the absurdity of the fashion itself and the false advertizing claims of imitation products. The surrounding ads promote contemporary products: women's bicycle suits (reflecting the "New Woman" era), Teutonic malt and hops extract, Rambler bicycles, Pears' soap, Beecham's pills, and Scott's Emulsion cod-liver oil. The "Trilby Examination" references a popular 1895 novel, offering a contest with answers to appear in Life's calendar issue.
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