Life, 1898-01-27 · page 17 of 20
Life — January 27, 1898 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains multiple commercial promotions typical of early 20th-century magazines. The central image shows a domestic scene captioned "Good-night, grandpa. Here's your O-H"—depicting a young girl giving her elderly grandfather a glass of malt extract before bed. This illustrates the advertising copy below promoting O-H Extract of Malt as a sleep aid. The surrounding ads promote various consumer products: Armour's beef extract for cooking, Vici leather dressing for shoes, Esterbrook steel pens, Sen-Sen throat lozenges, Pim-Ola food product, and Clyde Line steamship service to Florida. The "Cooking-School Girl" headline references contemporary domestic education trends, suggesting even beginners could cook well using commercial products like beef extract—a marketing appeal to modernizing American households embracing convenience foods and branded goods.
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-LIFE: The Cooking-School Girl, no matter how adept, can make no better soups than may the beginner who uses 7 Extract ot BEEF as “stock.” It takes the place of the old fashioned soup-bone and gives to soups a flavor obtainable in no other way. No trouble or mystery in its use. “Culinary Wrinkles” gives many recipes for soups, sauces, etc., and is mailed free, Armour & Company, Chicago. ws ee ee * Good-night, grandpa. Here's your 0-H." Take a glass of O-H Extract of Malt before going to bed. Restful and refreshing sleep will be yours. If your druggist or grocer docs not sell our extract on receipt of $2.00 we will send you one case (12 bottles), F, 0. By New York City. Send for Pamphlet, OTTO HUBER, Brooklyn, N. Y. SEN-5E* THROAT EASE » Good for You st BREA eo and Old = eer ba After your shoes have had a soak- ing, Vici Leather Dressing not only gives them a beautiful lustre, but softens the leather and prevents cracking. VICI Leather Dressing gives new life to old leather. Best for children’s shoes, women’s shoes, men’s shoecs—best for any kind of leather. Prepared by the ma- kers of the famous Vici Kid. Sold by all dealers. A valuable {llus- trated book about your shoes and thelr care, mailed free, ERT H, POERDERER, Philadelphia, Pa. ESTERBROOKS STEEL PENS, The Best Pens Made. LEADING NUMBERS: 048, Al, 333, 14, 130, 239, 313, 556. OTHER STYLES IN GREAT VARIETY. Ask your Statloner for‘ ESTERBROOK'S” THE ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO., Works, Camden, W. J. 26 John Street, N. ¥. A Revelation acate to Cpicures, Orocsrs They ure a combine ntos~\ 2 OF Otiveo. ie SAUCS CLYDE LINE... To Charleston, S.C. and Jacksonville, Fla.. without change, Lowest Rates to All Points South. FLORIDA Sus"Suthe Steamers arrive Jacksonville in morning, connecting with all outgoing trains Tustrated booklet free ‘upon application to Pas- senger Department. P. THEO. G. EGER, T. 5 Bowling Green, N. Y. comicbooks.com