Life, 1895-10-10 · page 15 of 18
Life — October 10, 1895 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **advertisements page** from Life magazine, circa 1893 (based on the Columbian Exposition reference). The only satirical content is the **Armour Extract of Beef advertisement** at top left, which opens with Shakespeare's witches' incantation ("Double, double toil and trouble / Fire burn and cauldron bubble"). The joke: traditional soup-making requires hours of tedious work ("toil and trouble"), but Armour's extract eliminates this drudgery—you simply add water for instant bouillon. The satire mocks outdated domestic labor while promoting modern convenience. The remaining content consists of genuine product advertisements: Teutonic Malt Schnapps (as a children's tonic), Anheuser-Busch's "Malt Nutrine" beverage, Demelvo hair remover, table linens, champagne, and water pumps. The **Anheuser-Busch ad notably markets alcohol as a health tonic for growing children and nursing mothers**—a practice that would horrify modern readers but was apparently unremarkable in the 1890s. This reveals more about historical attitudes toward alcohol and patent medicines than satire.
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rted. Sturdy limbs. Lys “Double, double toil and trouble; “Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”* That's the old way of making soup. Put your meat and soup: bones in the “cauldron'? and fuss over it for hours. Extracto BEEF I that “toil and trouble.” Add water to the Extract and you tly, a really palatable Houillon or Clear Beef Soup. Anyone can Armour & Company, Chicago. at a. Ei F724 nase 50 psa e bollicking Childhood. It is surely your dearest ish to see your children strong and happy with sparkling eyes and lively, ANHEUSER-BUScy, ° juliene - is the ideal tonic for growing chil- dren. They will like the taste of it and it will nourish and invigorate them. Especially helpful to nursing mothers. 70 BE HAD AT ALL DRUGGISTS* and GROCERS’. a ok Prepared by EUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS'N, St. Louis, U.S. A. nd for handsomely illustrated colored booklets and other reading matter, SPECIAL NOTICE. Ft Supreme Court of Washington, D. C., has awarded to the Anheuser-Busch ng Ass'n the disputed Highest Score of award with Medal and Diploma of the $Cotumbian Exposition, Superfluous -’- ~ets—_ Hair Quickly Removed ——_ Without Jaiury to the Skin. The Great Scientific Discovery SDEMNELVOS A Fragrant Liquid Compound Will quickly___a Remove Hair from Face, Neck, Arms, Hands, or any part of the Body. Our Guarant paid for DEMELVO, ording todirections, promised. Price, $2.00 a Bottle, by Mail. THE CHARLES A, VOGELER CO., Saltimore, Md. A Distinct in keeping with the present vogue for round dining tables is the Round Table Cloth which is now shown at “The Linen 2| Store" in a variety of handsome designs, 3, 3%, and 4 yards in diameter. OLb Mencator(Cosittte Billy Ducks, just] pe specialty is Housekeeping Linens. left school, who applies for situation as office can always be had from us. toy and produces testimonial from clergy] J~MES McCUTCHEON & CO.. man): We don't want you on Sundays, my , good little boy. Have youa reference from 14 West 23d Street, N. Y. any one who knows you on week days ?—Ex. Opposite sth Ave, Hotel. 3s FAANPACHE natural process of fermentation in bottle. Highest award at Columbian Exposition. THE JOSEPH R. PEEBLE’S SONS COMPANY, The Pike Building, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Distributing Agents for the Ohio Valley. ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS. @ ine aon, Batt fata a coee song a ee eed Bold by all Drvggtete. Do You Use Water? Do You Want It Every Day ? Only the best pump will meet this want. The best ones are the Rider & Ericsson Hot-Air Pumps. Is a record of twenty years proof enough? They are not the “cheapest.” The best of anything is never cheapest in first cost. But you do not buy pumps every day, and in the “long run” the lowest priced things are not always the cheapest. Any boy can run .. our engines, and under all circumstances they are absolutely safe. If interested, send for & catalogue “L" and state conditions under which your pump will have to work. RIDER ENGINE CO. 86 Lake Street, CHICAGO. 37 Dey Street, New York. Comicbooks.com