Life, 1900-01-25 · page 19 of 20
Life — January 25, 1900 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from an early 20th-century issue of Life magazine, with one small cartoon. The cartoon ("Nervous Old Lady") is a simple joke: an elderly woman asks a young mother if spots on a child are infectious. The mother reassures her—it's only teething, not contagious. The old lady replies she *wishes* it were contagious, implying she'd like to avoid further social obligations with children. The page is dominated by travel and product advertisements typical of the era: railroad tours to California and Mexico, the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, Dewar's Scotch Whisky, Old Crow Rye, and a patent key-holder. One ad promotes California's health benefits ("No Malaria"), reflecting period anxieties about disease and the era's belief in therapeutic travel and climate cures. The Keeley Cure ad addresses addiction treatment—a serious public concern of the time. The advertisements reveal contemporary consumer culture and the class assumptions of Life's readership: leisure travel, luxury goods, and patent remedies marketed to affluent Americans.
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<7 BUS os +i PIR as susnnennenaamnas many. No Malaria In California Inspiriting air, constant sunshine, equable temperature, and out-door recreation in endless variety. More delightful than the Mediterranean. The shortest journey, finest trains and best meal service are by the Santa Fe Route. Address General Passenger Office, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rallway, cuicaco, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD rgonoucres | OUR trove OLD MEXICO and CALIFORNIA J4daysin Mexico. 19 daysin California. Feanvany 12 ro Mancn 20. SPECIAL PULLMAN TRAIN. Parlor Sasting, Diatog. Sieeplas; Compartment, and ‘Observation tare over eailre Rat, $660, covering all necessary expenses, MEXICO ONLY Fesruary t2 ro Marcu 6. Rata, $300, covering all necessary execs, CALIFORNIA ONLY Feanuany 27 ro Mancn 29 Rata, $376, covering all necessary exoecses, Tours to FLORIDA, OLD PT. COMFORT, and WASHINGTON. Per detattes ttlaeraries aod full tnformatte Bars ao tay Toure Acco 1190 Neen Hoya, Asst. Gen'l Pass, Agest, Philae Supaia J. B, HUTCHINSON, 3. wooo, General Manager. Gen't Wass Agent, Nervous Old Lady: ABE THOSE SPOTS ON YOUB LITTLE ¥ INFECTIOUS? | ‘BO Young Mother: OW! ¥O, YOU NEED NOT PEAR. 17 18 ONLY teething—axD that 18 KOT CATCHING, YOU KNOW. | Nercousand Toothles Old Lady: 1 Wie IT WERE, BY Dean!— Moonshine. 52 Gold and Prize Medals Awarded for Excellence. Jags are to the sideboard, BOBBIE BURNS JUG. $2.00. Cash or Postal Order. Express Prepald. (Dept. 10). SCVVVVVVTVSTVUETUTEVEA THE ROMANTIC ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA NEW YORK to 2 GAN FRANCISCO with WASHINGTON AND SOUTHWESTERN LIMITED Magnificent Through Vestibul . ag & murongh jo Train, WEW YORK TO NEW “DRLEANS Leaves New York Daily at 4:90 P, M Via SOUTHERN RY., A.W.P.R.R., W.OFA.R.R., AND [email protected]. RB. Connects at New Orleans with “SUNSET LIMITED.” SPECIAL “*SUNSET LIMITED" ANNEX CAR. Loaves Now York Tuesdays and 7 t 4:20 P, Mt. 971 Broadway. A. 8. THWEATT, E. P. AL RRVOEVECEVUVUEUSEBS JOHN DEWAR. & SONS, Ltd., Distillers, PERTH, Scotland. LONDON, England. DEWAR'S SCOTCH WHISKY These pecimens of the famous English Doulton are od ma (oa very attractive addition ont Dewar’s Special Old Scotch Whisky, remarkable for Aroms, Purity. b azo alone can give, distilled from ne finest Maited Marley Drocurabie, Sead for Cutalogue No. 10. FRED'K GLASSUP, Sole U. S. Agent, JOHN DEWAR & SONS, Ltd., az West 24th St., New York, N.Y. and the Mellowness By Special Royal Warrant to Her Majesty the Queen. SPHINX JUG. $2.00. Cash or Postal Order, Express Prepald. BATTERY PARK HOTEL, Asheville, N. C. | B. P. MC KISSICK, Proprietor. Acknowledged to be the best appointed and most perfectly kept all the year resort hotel in America, Tho Battery Park GOLF LINKS have no equal in the| sora Gate South, cither in ma. | Hotel Guests. Beau. terial, attractions, or | tiful drives in every condition. Mr. B, | ‘lirection, Fine Liv- Nichols in charge. ery. Handsome Club House for use of Tourists en route either to or from Florifa may secure tickets reading via Asheville. Send for beau- tfully tilustrated pamphlet. DON’T LEAVE YOUR KEYS {0 the front door. | Festen them tothe od with a key chain ‘Wash- bdurne Patent ener. Ships i trim death ; don't t ‘abtte ; released Instantly. By mati, 26c. ‘Catalogue of other | © Doveltles free. ‘American Ring Co., Box 58. ‘Waterbury, Conn. eeley eo ure: een nr eee | 00 60 Alcohol, Opium, rhe Using. ‘The disease yee ds eaally WHITE pee v. to the Ds issrirctes, cations confidential. Write tor particulars, WEST HAVEN, COND While ‘we appreciate the | value of printer’s ink, we have always relied more on the QUALITY of Old Crow Rye than exaggerated advertise- ments. We are satisfied with the results. Compare it with all others.