Life, 1900-09-27 · page 20 of 20
Life — September 27, 1900 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than editorial satire. It features period product advertisements and one small cartoon illustration. The central image shows two women in Edwardian dress with accompanying dialogue: a servant or young woman seen "by the kitchen window" is identified as "an artist friend" receiving "a few sittings." The joke appears to be a mild social innuendo—suggesting improper behavior or a romantic assignation disguised under the pretense of artistic modeling, playing on period anxieties about unchaperoned interactions between young women and men. The ads include Lea & Perrins sauce, Evans' Ale, Martell's brandy, and prominently the Lackawanna Railroad advertising its dining car service with meals from 35 cents to $1.00. The cartoon's humor relies on Victorian-era social conventions around propriety and the double meanings of "sittings"—a modest joke by modern standards.
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