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This page contains three distinct pieces: **1. "An Idea in Pockets"** (top right): A humorous anecdote about a Detroit man who organized his clothing with 42 labeled pockets—each designated for specific items like "Tobacco," "Pipes," "Bills," etc.—tracked in a reference book on his watch chain. The joke mocks obsessive organization and impracticality. **2. Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Advertisement** (center-left): A full advertisement for modern bathroom fixtures, emphasizing how "a modern bathroom is the key to home comfort" and positioning porcelain-enameled baths as markers of modernity and sanitation. **3. "Combination Society and Sing Sing Suit for American Millionaires"** (right): An anecdote about Dr. John Dewey (Columbia psychology professor) who advocated children call parents by first names. When he discovered his son flooded the bathroom converting it to a "natatorium," the boy responded disrespectfully: "Don't stand there shooting off your mouth, John." The satire mocks progressive parenting ideology and its consequences. The page mixes consumer advertising with social commentary typical of Life's satirical approach.

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An Idea in Pockets. O* Detroit man has evolved an idea in pockets, unique and useful. He has four inside pockets and eight pockets placed in each waistcoat, two and eight outside pockets in each pair of trous- ers, one pocket in each sock, 14 in each coat, including outside, inside and shoulder pockets, one on each shirtsleeve and two in eac! hosom—a total of 42 pockets, Each pocket is labeled, with lettering in < thread, thus : “Tobacco,” “Pipes,” “Bills,” “Accounts,” “Persona oe! “Odds and Ends,” “Mis. cellaneous,” “Handkerchiefs,” ete. Each pocket is numbered. The number, lo- cation and use of the pocket is recorded ina little book hung on his watch chain. Wher he wants to refer to anything, he looks it up in this directory and is able to secure it within an hour.—Detroit News. A MODERN BATHROOM IS THE KEY TO HOME COMFORT In the bathroom are centered the comfort and convenience of the modern home. “Stardard” Ware makes the bathroom a delight, a pleasure, acontinuous source of pride in possession, and use. The white purity of its china-like surface is sanitary perfection — health insurance for your family—and the first aid in the making of the'‘Home Ideal.’ *Stardard” Por- celain Enameled Baths and One-Piece Lavatories are a necessity to the new home and indispensable in modernizing the old. A house equipped with it is strictly modern and sanitary. Its cost is well within the range of economy, and its beauty will satisfy the most luxurious tastes. Our 100-page Book, “MODERN BATHROOMS," tells you how to plan, buy and arrange your bathroom, and lilustrates many beautiful and Inexpensive as well as luxurious rooms, showing the cost of each fixture In detail. together with many hints on decoration, tiling, etc. It Is the most complete and beautiful booklet ever Issued on the sablect Be Eee pone, and the fame ot veer Piumber and architect (if selected). he Al 4 }. Design P 26 can be purchased from any plumber . ‘ y ‘ ‘i a slit Fo at a cost approximating $100.00—not counting freight, labor or piping. COMBINATION SOCIETY AXD SING SING SUIT FOR CAUTION: Even, piece of genuine “Stardard? Ware bears our “s “Green and Gold” guarantee label, and AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES, has our trade-mark “Standard” cast on the outside. Unless the lobel and trade-mark are onthe fixture itis not “Stanterd” Were. Refuse substitutes—they are all inferior and will cost you more in the end. 3 Address Standard Sanitary Mfo.Co. Dept.34, Pittsburgh, vu. S.A. Offices and Showrooms in New York: Bafiding, 35-37 West 31st Street EN ewey, . of Sendee Be vtecd suoitors Vindeee ae On HEN Dr. John Dewey, now head of the Department of Psychology at Columbia. was professor at Chicago, he had a good deal to say about the training of children. He particularly urged that they should call their » x parents by their first names. About this time he went home one day to find water trickling - through the ceiling of his study, and, on in- LITY J ax exee t vestigation, found his son converting the bath- < > IN: room into a natatorium. Mildly expressing A his surprise, he was greeted with: “Don't A Resilive Reet a stand there shooting off your mouth, John; ¢ y woman CHAPPED HANDS, CHAFING get a mop and get busy before the old roubles, A tittle ‘The Unbrerkab! > Collar Battons that don’t hart the ” perhaps th neck. | Fasy to batton and unbutton :#tay buttoned, comes home.”—The Argonaut. ie Made in Gold and Rolled Plate. If damaged in any way, exchanged for new one at your jeweler’s or Raberdasher’s, Booklet on request. Gerhard Mennen Company, - Newark, N. J. Krementz & Co., 60 Chestnut St, Newark, N. J. ONG, white envelopes cover a multitude of sins.—The Editor. BORATED TALCUM comicbooks.com