Life, 1897-02-25 · page 2 of 20
Life — February 25, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire. The main central image advertises "Londonderry Lithia Water" with a bearded sailor or seafaring figure holding a bottle. The caption—"I've followed the water all my life but I had to come ashore to find out what water really was"—is a testimonial claiming the product's superiority. Surrounding advertisements promote ladies' fashions (Stern Bros hats and bonnets from Paris), ladies' furnishings by Arnold Constable & Co, framed proofs of original LIFE drawings, and Waltham Watch Company movements. The small cartoon of a winged child labeled "BLIND" appears unrelated to the water advertisement—its purpose unclear without additional context.
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*.LIFE> Stern BroS | are now showing First Spring Importations of Ladies’ Trimmed Pattern Hats and Bonnets From Paris including Many Exclusive Novelties West 23d St. od rate ce nd to come ashore Ci hat giler peed was. FFURNISHINGS, Silk. Petticoats. BATISTE CORSETS. Shirt Waists. SPRING STYLES [CHILDREN’S WEAR Organdie, Dimity, Gingham. SILK FROCKS. Hand-made Guimps. Hanad-Embroidered Underwear. | Broadway A 1916 at NEW YORK. Framed Proofs of Originals framed, on application. one hundred miles from New York City, $4.00. Smaller drawings, 2.00. . proots half the above prices. orders will be promptly filled. Proofs are Same Size as Illustra- tions in LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 39 and 21 West 3st Street, | “ROYAL” | time-keepers as human ingenuity has yet without frames at Make selections from files of LIFE and New York City A watch movement is a machine whose value depends upon the perfection of each of its parts and the mechanical skill with which those parts are put | together. The American Waltham Watch | drawings from LIFE will be furnished, suitably and daintily Large double-page drawings, including frame and transportation within | of a WALTHAM movement, but it makes the machinery by which those parts are made. There is the least possible chance for inaccuracy. The “R/VERS/DE” and movements are as accurate made possible. for sale by all retail jewelers. GOPYRIGNT FOR ORCAT ORITAIN BY JAMES RERDEROON