Life, 1898-01-27 · page 2 of 20
Life — January 27, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page contains **no political cartoons or satirical illustrations**. Instead, it consists primarily of: 1. **Financial reporting** (left column): Bank statement for the Second National Bank of New York 2. **Advertisements** (right side): Arnold Constable & Co. luxury lace and embroidery goods; Waltham Watches 3. **Event announcement** (center/bottom): Musical and dramatic breakfasts benefiting Life's Fresh-Air Fund, scheduled for January 27, featuring performers like May Irwin and Clara Lipman 4. **Patroness list** (bottom): Extensive names of prominent society women supporting the fundraiser The only potentially meaningful content is the Waltham Watches ad, which features a quote attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds about craftsmanship—a standard advertising appeal to quality and refinement rather than satire.
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*LIFE: (REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF THE Second National Bank OF THE City of New York, nt New York, at the close of business De- SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, when asked by an ambitious young painter with what he mixed his colors, replied, ‘With |Brains, Sir.’ So in watch- | ‘|making: it is not alone the value) of the jewels that makes a first-| class watch— it is the brains ,|that have planned its construc- tion. Mechanical skill and knowledge have made Waltham Watches the best in the world. For sale by all jewelers. Conia BE, Real Laces. Point d’Alencon, Point Gaze, | Point Venise, Duchesse and Honiton Laces. Lace Robes, Spangled Flouncings. RESOURCES. $5,100, I-tender notes ceruficates of dep for legal tevders kedemption fund with per cent. of eirculat! hue from U. 8. Treasurer ot cent redemption fund . Embroideries. Swiss and Nainsook Edgings and Insertions. Embroidered All-Overs. White and Colored Emb'd Robes with Lace-trimmed Skirts. Broadway Ath a. NEW YORK. puividual deposita, subj wocheck . pemand certificates of de- posit. : ertified chi rashier’s checks outatan ‘ork, County of $8. CASE, Cashier of th jo'solemnly swear that the above stat ne best of my knowledge and belief. J. & CASE, Cai Subscribed and sworn to before m ES hecember, 1897. Ugxay B. Ginsoxs, N Correct—Atter WM. C. BREWS JOUN W, AITK. 1A 4 pirectora UW. BLA s D DOMINICK, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC BREAKFASTS LIFE’S FRESH-AIR FUND THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, The Programme will be devoted entirely to Vaudeville. Among those who will appear are MAY IRWIN, CLARA LIPMAN, ard MESSRS. LOUIS MANN, DAVID WARFIELD, HARRY CONNOR, HARRY GILFOYLE, and others. COURTESY OF MR. LEDERER AND MR. RICE. PATRONESSES. Mrs. John Jacob A: Mrs. George P. mar s. Muhlenberg Bailey Mrs, Eamund Baylies Mrs, Jan Mrs. O. s. Charles Berryman J. Berwind } ortimer Brooks Mrs, Frederick Betts Mrs, Wilbur Bloodgood Mrs, James, Burden, Jr. Mrs. Daniel Butterfield Mrs. Lloya Bryce Mrs. Henry Burnett Mrs. H. Le Grand Cannon Mrs, Robert Clarkson Mrs. Henry Clews — Mrs, Holbrook Curtis Mrs. Wm. P. Douglas Mrs, William B, Dinsmore, Jr. Mrs. John Drexel Mrs. Wm. A. Duer Mrs. Ogden Doremus Mrs. J. O. Donner Single Tickets at $4 each. For sale at LIFE Office, Mrs, Elisha Dyer, Jr. Mrs, George de Forest Mrs. Regivald de Koven Mrs. di Zerega Mrs. Casimir de Rham Mrs. Frederick Edey Mrs, Duncan Elliott Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Mrs. Frederic: Gebhard? Mrs. Sidney Harris Mrs. Borden Harriman Mrs, J. Arden Harriman Mrs, Richard M. Huot Mrs, Thomas Howard Mrs. Cooper Hewitt Mrs, Charles Havemeyer Mrs, Charles Russell Hone Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Mrs, Oliver Harriman, Jr. Mrs. H. B. Hollins Mrs. Robert Huntington Mrs. Valentioe Hall Mrs, Russell Hoadley, Jr. Mrs. Dunlop Hopkins Mrs, Richard Irvin Mrs’ Louis Colford Jones Mrs, Bradish Johnson Mrs. Gilbert Jones Mrs. Luther Kountz Mrs. Fred Keruochan Mrs. Arthur Kemp Mrs. James Brown Lord Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr. Mrs. E. Livingston Ludlow Miss Leary Mrs, Prescott Lawrence Mrs, Robert Livingstone Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Mrs. Richard Mortimer Mrs. Frederick Neilson Mrs. Herman Oelrichs Mrs, Robert Osbora Mrs. Almeric Paget Mrs. Reginald Rives Mrs. Archibald Rogers Mrs. Burke Roche Mrs. George Rives Mrs, William Rhinelander Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond 18. Thayer Robb Mrs. C. Albert Stevens Mrs, Algernon Sullivan Mrs: Eugene Schieffelin Mrs, Henry Sloane Murs, James Speyer Mrs. Lorillara Spencer Mrs. Frank Sturgis Mrs, Marion Story Mrs. Henry Trevor Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs. George Henry Warren Mrs. Orme Wilson Mrs. J. J. ysong ts: Waiter Wattous Mrs. Mayhew Wainwright Mrs, Whitney Warren ‘Miss Eweretta Whitney Mrs. Stephen Whitney Mrs, William C. Whitney Mrs. W, Storr Wells Mrs. Edgerton Winthrop, Jr. Mrs. Joho C, Wilmerding Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster Mrs. Eben Wright Mrs. Seward Webo Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney Mrs. Buchanan Winthro Mrs, Francis de Ruyter Wissman 19 West 3ist St., and at Tyson's Theatre Ticket e§