Life, 1899-04-20 · page 19 of 20
Life — April 20, 1899 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with one satirical cartoon at the top. ## The Cartoon The cartoon depicts a "Harlem Roof Garden" scene showing couples on a rooftop. The caption explains it illustrates how the space "appeared when the ones above were holding their evening conversation"—the figures are drawn with their heads replaced by open windows, suggesting they're eavesdropping on neighbors' conversations below. This is a **joke about apartment living and lack of privacy**: thin walls or open windows in tenement buildings allowed residents to overhear neighbors' activities, a common urban complaint of the era. ## Advertisements The rest of the page contains typical early 20th-century product ads: Nearsilk fabric linings, Abbott's Angostura Bitters, Dixon's Cycle Chain Graphite lubricant, portable play houses, Williams' Shaving Soap, and The Keeley Cure (a treatment for alcohol and drug addiction). These ads reflect period consumer goods and social concerns common to the magazine's readership.
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OVERHOLT High Standard Pennsyl- vania Pure Rye Whiskey. “Bottled in Bond” direct from the barrel at the Distillery. VIEW OF A HASLEM ROOF GARDEN, NOW IT APPEARED WHEN THE ONES ABOVE WERE HOLDING THEIR EVENTNO CONVERSATION. Buy your children a Play Housn; your boy can erect it, For particulars write to Mershon & Morley, Saginaw, Mich. We manutacture portable houses for Hunters’ Cabins, Summer Resort Cottages, and a dozen other purposes, MERSHON & MORLEY ayard 3 ( A Y 3 a yar ) be _SAGINAW, MICHIGAN ABBOTT Sonu ANCISTURABITERS MR ee sets So DON’T LOSE THE POINT | srmerycas at @ Don’t Gather Dust Rough riding a-wheel“!s smoothed immensely by a clean chain—and aciean chain comes with using Beetles aah F DIXON'S S508 eof these and other novelties | GRAPHITES cr = th the Washburne Fasteners | Sres for the osking. vi) In five atyles—stick and paste—the only perfect lubri- canta for chains and sprockets. Sold by all dealers, American Ring Co, Box 58. ‘Waterbury, Conn. JOSEPH DLXON CRUCIBLE Co., ‘Seteey Clty, Ne 2 AO 6a 10 tO 10m U0 ca 06 <a 0: When you see that sign on a barber shop . “williams' Shaving Soap used here.” you Alcohol, Opium, relies keep toes ees Je e 5 of a good, clean, comforting, refreshing Dru Usin s Shave. Above ali, you are safe from the zg. dangers which lurk ia cheap, inferior shav- ‘The disease yeh easily WHITE PLAINS, N, fee ape ., WILLIAMS! SHAVING SOAPS are used 0 the Doate’ Chicrsie Cali treament sv sisin, BUFFALO, .¥. by all first-class barbers, and are for sale all ure iz iered sichneesceeent LEXINGT over the world. 7" wn PROVIDE! The J. B, Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct, tations content, for particulars. ° WEST HAVEN, CONN. Depots Londen, Paris, Dresden, Sydney. 0 9 10 <a Ob eR 00 ce 80 «