Life, 1901-07-11 · page 5 of 20
Life — July 11, 1901 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# "Reflections of a Mirror—XIII" This illustration depicts a formal dinner party scene viewed through an ornate mirror frame. The caption describes the narrator entering a city inn's dining room and observing a "stylish woman and gentleman" at dinner with "a young man, who had been supping with a fair young woman." The narrator notes the woman leaves, and judges by "what followed that the initial man and woman who had first entered were husband and wife." The satire appears to target Victorian-era infidelity and hypocrisy—the contrast between respectable public appearances (the formal dinner) and private moral failings. The mirror frame device suggests exposure of hidden truths about society's "refined" classes.
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