Life, 1895-12-26 · page 46 of 51
Life — December 26, 1895 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** rather than editorial content or satire. The main illustration titled "Ingredients of an Amateur Punch" is a decorative **still-life drawing** showing skeleton figures and various bottles/ingredients arranged around a punch bowl—a humorous visual pun on "punch" that plays on the macabre imagery popular in period humor. Below are two unrelated advertisements: 1. **Dorflinger's American Cut Glass** — promotes their store's cut glass wares as holiday gifts, encouraging readers unfamiliar with the product to visit or request a pamphlet. 2. **Vin Mariani** — advertises a French wine tonic, quoting endorsement from artist Carolus Duran. Vin Mariani was a popular patent medicine/fortified wine of the era containing coca leaf extract. There is no political satire or social commentary on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine advertising practices.
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PUNCH INGREDIENTS OF AN | Have you thought — of Cut Glass in con- sidering Hohday store exclusively devoted to the sale of Cut Glass? Have you any idea what is made in Cut Glass > If you cannot call, write us for a pamphlet. DORFLINGER'S — C. Dorflinger & Sons, AMERICAN Shim 915 Broadway, CUT D GLASS. (near 2rst St.), New York. MARK. AMATEUR PUNCH, (MARIANI WINE) THE IDEAL FRENCH TONIC. “*Vin Mariani is ideal, it is both remarkably agree- able and fortifying.” CAROLUS DURAN. Ar Davosters & Fascy Grocers. Avorn Steerrrcnoss. Sent free, If this paper 1s mentioned, Descriptive Book, Portraits and Autographs of Celebrities. MARIANI & CO.. Paps 61 Rosterard Has 62 West 1uth St, New You, 110) Onieed Streets comicbooks.com