Life, 1909-12-02 · page 65 of 80
Life — December 2, 1909 — page 65: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The top half promotes Maillard's luxury chocolates and bonbons for the 1909 Christmas season at their Fifth Avenue store, listing ornamental gift boxes shaped like pianos, typewriters, and sleighs. The lower section contains two unrelated advertisements: one for Copley Prints featuring a reproduction of Millet's "Motherly Meditation," and another for Curtis & Cameron's portrait services in Boston. The only cartoon appears left-center: a **Sherlock Holmes illustration** showing the detective examining fingerprints to catch a criminal. This references Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective character and reflects early-20th-century fascination with forensic science and fingerprint identification as a modern crime-solving method. The page reflects Gilded Age consumer culture—luxury goods marketed to wealthy patrons—rather than political commentary.
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z 5 3 y 3 y 5 3 5 ££ 3 £ 9 9 9 € 3 £ 9 & 3 £ 3 3 9 £ 9 2 9’ f 9 5 3 3 3 ‘e _ Good Holiday Cheer A cordial invitation is extended to our numerous patrons, and visitors, to attend, on Monday, December 13th, the opening of the 1909 Christmas and New Year’s Exhibit Maillard’s Bonbonnieres Parisiennes The conceits are charming. Impossible to list the vast variety of fancy things, but here are a few:— Bronze Baskets with Silk Flowers Baskets with Flowers Fairy Typewriters in Sati Miniature Pianos in Silk with Music Box dewelez, Boxes Pin Cushions in Si Antave Cushions | eee IS. Siscksis'De tare Glove and Handkerchief Boxes, in Suede, ete. Large Chiffon Bells for Christmas Opera Bags of all Descriptions Porcelain and Daum Novelties, etc., ete. All filled with MAILLARD’S Chocolates and Bonbons. ° Santa Ch in whi hv satin—in crimson silk sleighs, and Toys for the Children, °°! Gis? Pc Bunt een, ee insumeee FIFTH AVENUE % at 35th STREET AFTERNOON TEA SERVED IN RESTAURANT, THREE TO SIX HERE is a picture which if one doesn’t like one ‘ought to like. Absolutely Whistlerian in its simplicity and charm. For the subject's sake and the artistic reproduction of it in the Copley Prints, it ought to be inevery home. The subject {s Motherly Meditation, by G. ¥. Millet. These prints make the BEST OF GIFTS There are 900 more pictures in our New Hiluse trated Catalogue (practically a handbook of SHERLOCK HOLMES American art) whe is sent for 25 cents: stamps accepted. It is full of suggestions for “aw! EVERYTHING IS AS 1 THOUGHT—MURDERED BY HAND. Christmas. Catalogue charge deducted from pur- chase of the Prints themselves. $1.25 to $20 NOW, ALL I HAVE TO DO IS CAPTURE THE CRIMINAL AND COM- art stores or sent on approval. Copyright 1907, by PARE THE FINGER PRINTS.” Curtis @ Cameron 77 flere Ballding Boston Family Portraits dove on private order from daguerreotypes, tintypes, photographs, ivory, etc. : comicbooks.com