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This page contains **no political cartoon**. Instead, it features three separate advertisements and advice columns typical of Life magazine's format: 1. **"To the Man Who is Out of a Job"** — practical career advice suggesting unemployed readers consult professors, bankers, and business contacts to find work or start ventures. 2. **"Thin Waltham Watches"** — an advertisement for precision pocket watches, emphasizing reliability and offering a free booklet. 3. **"Old Overholt Rye"** — a whiskey advertisement referencing the product's 100-year popularity. 4. **"Old Adages Disproved"** — a humorous column debunking the saying "Early to Bed, Early to Rise," arguing that modern sleep science contradicts this old maxim. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: unemployment, consumer products, and folk wisdom challenged by modern thinking.

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To the Man Who is Out of a Job HE following directions to the man out of a job have been care- fully compiled by one of our experts and will be found very useful: See any college professor; one, if possible, who has written a book on sociology. He will explain to you present conditions and will give you all the facts and statistics bearing on the case. Call on any banker. Explain to him that you have character and ask him to make you a loan so you can start up some profitable business. See Mr. Hearst, tell him you are a member of the proletariat, and” give him a list of your grievances, He will publish an editorial on the subject. Get a competent stenographer to an- swer all the advertisements which appear in the daily papers. This may cost you something, but remember that nothing is so important as a job, and you can afford to spend any amount of money in securing one. Hire a cottage in Newport, and by Leing patient you will in time become acquainted with the successful business men who live there. They will no doubt be able to suggest something that you can do. Apply to any railroad—first taking out an accident policy in some reliable insurance company. Also make your to the automobile. There are thousands of roadside taverns where there were hundreds before. Yet all of them and the palatial city hotels find Old Overholt Rye “Same for 100 Year” as popular as it was a century ago. Honesly made from the bet Penn- sylvania Rye and pure mountain in Waltham Watches The making of thin watches which shall also be reliable is fraught with many fine mechanical dif- ficulties. That we offer a thin watch at all announces that we have conquered \ these difficulties, for never does a Waltham watch go out without possessing as its main glory instr mental precision. The“Colonial A” watch shown here is beautiful to the eye, imperceptible in the pocket and a true Waltham in accuracy. Perhaps you would like our booklet on thin watches. We would like you to have it. It is free on request. Waltham “WVateh Mpary Waltham, Mass. Letore buying any watch be gure to ask your jeweler abont our “Riverside” models, The Rrerside booklet ts interesting and iret, Write us for it, Old Adages Disproved Early to Bed, Early to Rise? HIS saying, of course, was all very well in the old days, when all the people wore hayseed in their hair, and the crops were a matter of concern even to the humblest soubrette. To prove that it is wrong, however, it, is only necessary to test it. You will discover that when you go to bed early, instead of getting up the next morning with the lark, as this misleading adage would have you believe, the breakfast bell may ring four times and you can’t be drawn out of your slumber with a derrick. Sleep is now known to be a habit. The more you indulge in it the more you want. To rise early, therefore, always make a business of playing poker or bridge until midnight at least. Otherwise you'll miss your train ard be late at your office. Comichooks {efeyu)