Life, 1900-09-13 · page 2 of 20
Life — September 13, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The left column promotes September trips to the Adirondack Mountains, while the right features a corset advertisement for "W.B. Erect Form Corsets" ($1.00). The bottom half advertises **Life Publishing Company products**: a golf book ($2.00), a collection of short stories called "Half Portions" ($1.25), and "Attwood's Pictures"—described as an artist's satirical history of the last decade of the 19th century ($3.00). The illustration of a woman in period dress (left) appears to be decorative/promotional rather than cartoonical commentary. There is **no clear political satire visible** on this particular page—it functions as a standard magazine advertising section from early 1900s Life magazine.
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TERRE W.B. SEPTEMBER IN Erect Form Corsets. THE ADIRONDACK f STVLR 701 ts made of white and drab Jean, and fast black satine. Hip gored, | MOUNTAINS, yy Beer ot Price, $1.00, Those who have not spent a September in the r 5 , ttt Adirondacks have no idea how beautiful they are in that menth which forces most families The Erect Form Corset is hygienic, easy and shapely. Itis with children back into the city at just the time when nature offers so much to those who can | | i | sizes. Erect Form i stay in the country and enjoy it. y ¥ suitable for all figures Try it once and you will never regret it. = Ria) comes ie vanien Corsets remove all pressure from the chest {A book oF folder descriptive of the Adirondack Moontains and abdomen, and place all strain on the hips will be sent free, postpeld, 10 any addrers on recelpt of i wane free, noelpeld, 16 aby addrere oa sreeiit of 6 and back muscles, which are most capable of , Grand Central Sfation, New York. sustaining it. It throws the shoulders into a fine military attitude. If not purchasable at your dealers, send the above price to WEINGARTEN BROS., Manufacturers, Dept. L. No. 377 Broadway, NEW YORK CITY. LIFE’S BOOK FOR GOLFERS A richly illustrated book, carefully printed on heavy paper, dealing exclusively with the game of Golf in its amusing and sentimental aspects. Drawings by Gibson, Hanna, Gilbert, Richards, Blashfield, Hutt, and many others. Cover Design by Gibson, Price, $2.00. HALF PORTIONS. Fifteen short stories by the cleverest of Lire’s writers, profusely illustrated and handsomely printed, Price, $1.25. ATTWOOD’S PICTURES. An Artist’s History of the Last Ten Years of the Nineteenth Century. A collection of the clever and satirical vignettes by Francts Gitsert ATTwWoon, illustrating the history of our own time. Copyright, 1899, by Life Publishing Co, Price, $3.00. LIFE PUBLISHING COFPANY, NEW YORK. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON comicbooks.com