Life — June 4, 1914 — page 51: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a **Gordon's Gin advertisement**, not political satire. The page features a recipe/advertisement for a cocktail called "A Gordon Gin Daisy" presented as an ideal refreshment for hot weather. The directions list ingredients: pony (small measure) of Gordon Gin, juice of a lime, one slice of orange, aerated water, pony raspberry syrup or half lemon, cracked ice, and a large glass. The advertisement uses decorative borders of Gordon's Gin bottles framing a large photograph of the finished cocktail—a tall glass filled with ice and the mixed drink. This appears to be from the Prohibition era's end or shortly after, when alcohol advertising had resumed in American publications. The "daisy" was a standard cocktail category of the period.