Life, 1897-04-29 · page 2 of 20
Life — April 29, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising** with no significant political cartoons or satire. The central illustration depicts a fashionable woman in early 1900s attire (large feathered hat, fitted jacket, riding crop), likely representing a Gibson Girl–type figure. This serves as decoration for Life Publishing Company's advertisement offering "Framed Proofs of Originals from LIFE." The surrounding ads promote bicycles (Columbia, Hartford, Stearns), laces, parasols, and upholstery. One ad humorously compares the Stearns bicycle to "Shakespeare...to the poets" and a "thoroughbred horse," using exaggerated praise typical of early advertising. The page's main content is a poetry competition announcement asking readers to vote on "the ten best short poems," with results to be awarded a framed picture.
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> LIFE: | LIFE’S | Prize Qompetition . . . Stern Bros. Are now showing In their Upholstery Departments A choice collection of Lace, Muslin and Snow Flake Curtains, India Art Draperies, Cretonnes, WHAT ARE THE TEN BEST SHORT POEMS? A popular vote will be taken on this interesting subject by the readers of Lire, and the one whose list of the Ten Best Poems in the English Language is nearest the combined judgment, according to all the lists sent in, will be awarded Rich Laces, Point Applique, Lierre, Honiton, and WU’ Alencon Laces FOR BRIDAL TROUSSEAUX Chiffons, Mousselines, Nets, Lace We s, Jackets, Garnitures, Boleros, Fichus, Ings, Stocks. English Printed Grenadines, an original signed picture beautifully framed in gilt. The name and address of cach competi- tor must accompany each list, and not more TRIMMED PARASOLS, Furniture and Wall Coverings SaIIESL, eh aslaate (eomianyy COACHING PARASOLS, . individual, 1e competition will Le closed on UMBRELLAS, suitable for July ist, no lists being considered after that . Cottage Furnishings date. GLOVES. West 23d St. ALL LISTS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO Broadway 2) 19tb “PEGASUS,” IN CARE OF LIFE .. . NEW YORK. than one list will be considered from any one Framed Proofs 20 Years Experience In cycle building has made ROOFS of any of the origi- nal drawings from LIFE Bicycles will be furnished on appli- re), | ta AES cation, suitably aud daintily Unequalied Unapproached STANDARD OF THE WORLD. Hartford Bicycles $75, $60, $50, $45. POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn, Catalogue free from dealers, or by mail for one 2-cent stamp. framed in cither a gilt or a Japanese oak frame. Large dou- ble-page proofs, including frame and transportation within one |hundred miles of New York, $y.co. Single-page, or smaller proofs, $:.0%. Proofs without frames at half the above rates. Make selections from files of LIFE, and state, when ordering, |the particular style of frame de- sired, and orders will be prompt- {ly filled, | Proofs are the same size as Mlustrations in LIFE, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 & 21 West 3ist St., New York. comrmant | | qt Shakespere is to the| poets the Stearns Special is | to bicycles. | Its ‘characteristics are tread, 4 inches; its lightn |] pounds; its artistic lines an and its runaway qualities. It's just as much superior to most bicycles as a thoroughbred horse is to the hack horse. $125.00 is the price. _———— | | €. C. Stearns & Co, | Syracuse, N.Y. The Tixxnan CycLR Company, New York Age 206-210 West s9th Street,