Life, 1900-09-13 · page 17 of 20
Life — September 13, 1900 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine's turn-of-the-century era, with minimal editorial content. The page features period advertisements for: **Fashion/Health:** Redfern corsets emphasizing the fashionable "S-bend" silhouette with curved waist and low bust; Alois P. Swoboda's mail-order physical exercise system promising cures for constipation and nervousness. **Travel:** Pennsylvania Railroad tours to Civil War battlefields (Gettysburg) and Southern destinations. **Alcohol:** Multiple whiskey and health underwear ads—notably "Old Overholt" and "Old Crow Rye" using quality claims; "Canadian Club" whisky emphasizing that good water enhances rather than spoils the product. **Other:** Ypsilanti Health Underwear and a teaser for C.D. Gibson's upcoming "Widow" comic series. The ads reflect 1900 consumer culture: patent medicines, mail-order self-improvement, and the era's obsession with both refinement and bodily "health" through corsetry and dubious remedies. No satire is apparent—these are straightforward commercial pitches.
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Good whisky can- not be spoiled by good water. “Canadian Club” Whisky is admittedly one of the most deli- cate of whiskies, yet water does not wash out its sub- tile flavour and aroma, but on the contrary en- hances them. A “Canadian Club” High Ball is the perfection ofa summer drink. 3 7 $250 TO $10.00 ner RES Doms REDFERN DESIGNS WITH THE CURVED WAIST LINES, STRAIGHT FRONTS, ROUNDING HIPS AND LOW BUST. EFFECTS, WILL PRODUCE AN ELEGANCE OF FIGURE | * THAT NO.OTHER CORSETS CAN. THEY COST SOME- WHAT MORE , BUT ARE A NECESSITY TO A WELL Senet ean — FRENCH GORED-SOLID WHALEBONE uo histo cyuernt omoncies anes: Tre WARNER Bros. Conrany ~ BIAS CUT — Low BUST, LONG HIP, SHORT MiP & STRAIGHT FRONTS PENNSYLY ANIA RAILROAD "trsonatty, CONDUCTED TOURS. GETTYSBURG, LURAY, AND WASHINGTON September 16 to 19, 1900. teaches by mail with perfect success Alois WOboda tere nasctdtite method ot Phystol Nogical Exercise without any apparatas wiisate and requiring but a few minutes Ume in your own room. te before retiring. By this condensed system more exercise can be obtained Iu ten minutes than by any otber in two hours aud it is the only one which does not overtax the heart. It ts the only natural, easy and speedy method for obtatning perfect health, physical development and elasticity of mind and body. ABSOLUTELY CURES CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, SLEEPLESSNESS, NERVOUS EXHAUSTION and revitallzes the whole body. Pupils are of both sexes ranging tn age from fifteen to elghty-s1x, and all Tecommend the system. Since no two people are in the same physical condition individual instructions are given In eact Write t_onee for full information and Booklet contatning endorsementa from many of America’s leading citizens to RAT! $25.00 from NEW YORK. 9 $22.00 from PHILADELPHIA. TO THE SOUTH October 9 to 17, 1900. For detailed Itineraries and full toformation, apply to Ticket Agents: Tourist Agent, 1193 New York; 4 Court 8t., Brooklyn; ark, } OF address Geo. W. nl Pass, Agent, Philadelphia. J.B. HUTCHINSON, — J. R. WOOD, General Manager. Gen'l Pasa. Agent, ALOIS P. SWOBODA, 34-36 Washington Street, CHICAGO, ILLS. Take Chances When you can be sure of it? OLD OVERHOLT “Bottled In Bond’? direct from the barrel at the distillery. A. Ovennott & Co., PITTSBURG, PA. THE ADVENTURES OF A WIDOW will bo illustrated by a series of drawluge by | Cc. D. Gibson, soon to begin tn LIFE. “ASK YOUR DEALER AMERICA’S FAMOUS YPSILANTI HEALTH UNDERWEAR IF Hay NOT & SEND TODD FOR M MFG. CO. BOOKLET YPSILANTI TO. Not Artificially Mellowed, Time and Good Storage Only used in maturing Old Crow Rye A Straight, Hand-Made Sour Mash. Whiskey does not need § doctoring; only cheap whiskies are fixed up to taste old. | They are not good for the stomach. H. B. KIRK & Co., Sole Bottlers, N. Y. comicbooks.com