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This page is primarily **advertising and humor pieces** rather than political satire. The left side features a large advertisement for Pompeian Massage Cream, promoting wrinkle removal through nightly facial massage—reflecting early 20th-century beauty standards and concerns. The right side contains several short humorous pieces: 1. **"Just Back From College"** (cartoon): A sketch showing someone appearing disheveled, with the caption about "drifting away" suggesting commentary on the college experience or generational change. 2. **"Solomon's Judgment"** and subsequent pieces: Brief anecdotes about theater criticism, street noise complaints, and scientific progress—typical satirical humor of the era poking fun at everyday situations, pretension, and social conventions. The content reflects *Life* magazine's format as a general-interest satirical publication mixing advertisements with light social commentary.

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Rub Out To-night the Wrinkles of To-day Each day’s cares and anx- ieties leave their lines on the face. Lite lines on a slate, they can be allowed to re- main a permanent record, or they can be removed at once. Social, household or family duties can leave no telltale record upon the face of the woman who uses Pompcian Massage Cream, A few minutes cach night massaging the face and neck with Pompeian Cream will prevent wrinkles and ‘¢crow’s-feet’? from getting a foothold, or remove them if already there. POMPEIAN MASSAGE CREAM substitutes curves for angles, firm flesh for flabbiness and double chins, and fullness for hollows. By keeping the skin in perfeét health, it makes a natural, clear complexion, fine-grained, rosy- tinted and smooth as satin. It is a cleanser—not a cosmetic. It opens the pores of the skin—does not clog them. It even makes the use of face powders unnecessary, as it removes all shine. Book and Free Sample to Test Simply fill in and mail us the coupon, and we will send you a large sample, together with our illustrated book on Facial Massage, an invaluable guide for the proper care of the skin. Suggest to your brother or husband that be try Pompeian Massage Cream after shaving ; by cleansing the pores of soap it allays irritation and does atvay with soreness. All leading barbers will massage with Pompeian Massage Cream — accept no substitutes, We prefer you to buy of your dealer when- ever possible, but do not accept a substi- tute for Pompeian under any cizcum~ stances. If your dealer docs not keep it, we will send a soc, of $1.00 jar of the cream, postpaid on receipt of price. POMPEIAN MFG. «© CO. * $ D 25 Prospect St. Pleaso send, with- out cost to me, ono & , copy of your book oa facial massage and alib- Movement No.2 To remove hori- zontal wrinkles ~ on the forehead. /. eral sample of Pompeian Massage Cream, Pempetan Massage Soap is appreciated by all whe are particular in regard to the quality of the seap they use. Fer sale by all dealers—bex of 3 cates, $0 cents JUST BACK FROM COLLEGE “EVER SINCE OUR SON HAS COME BACK HOME, I FEEL MORE AND MORE THAT ME 1s DRIFTING AWAY FRow Us!” Solomon's Judgment HERE isan effective piece of dramatic criticism, said to have been printed ina rural paperin Indiana. A raw company on the “kerosene circuit” played “Hamlet,” and the next day the editor wrote: “Mr. Soandso and his company played ‘Hamlet’ in the town hall last night. It was a great social event, and all the élite of our fair village attended. There has been a long discussion as to whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the play commonly attributed to Shakespeare. It can easily be settled now. Let the graves of the two writers be opened. The one who turned over last night is the author." —Exchange. A Successful Remedy RAVELER (in a college town): How is it that the streets are always so quict at night? Disturbances must be most severely punished. INNKEEPER: That isn’t so. But the fact is we have taken off the night watchman, and since then the students don’t find any fun in making rows.— Wiener Kleiner Witzblatt. Progress of Science OCTOR: What? Troubled with sleeplessness? Eat something before going to bed. Patient: Why, doctor, you once told me never to eat anything before going to bed. (With dignity): “Pooh, pooh! That was made enormous strides since then.” —Tit- Bits. last January. Science has Of Course “WE ELOPED in an auto and her father came after us in another.” “He had to make a bluff, eh?” “That's it. Had he really wanted to catch us he would have pursued us on foot.” —Pittsburg Post. wr is the rabbit or hare associated with Easter and Easter eggs? Because in European as well as Asiatic countries the hare has been from ancient times the symbol for the moon, and the movable feast of Easter is governed by the lunar orb. The moon is the “open-eyed watcher of the night,” and the hare is a nocturnal animal. The young of the hare are born with their eyes open and are said never to close them. In many parts of Germany the children firmly believe the myth that the hare lays the Easter egg, and the association of the moon, Easter rabbits and Easter eggs is everywhere the same, with its symbolism of spring and the awakening of life. —Scrap Book, Not Worrying “D0 YOU believe it will be a fair election?” “Well,” answered Senator Sorghum, “it may not be exactly a fair election, but both sides are so evenly matched in crookedness that the result ought to be about the same as if it were.” —IWashington Star. comicbooks.com