Life, 1914-04-02 · page 13 of 68
Life — April 2, 1914 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **primarily advertising and humor columns**, not political satire. The left side features "At the Pie Counter," a monologue by Lane Bryant about a woman at a diner exchanging a millionaire husband for a younger man—satirizing materialism and relationship fickleness through domestic humor. The right side is a **full-page advertisement** for Mennen's Shaving Cream, addressing "the horrible after-effects of shaving" (ingrown hairs, skin irritation). The ad features a man examining his face, claiming letters prove the cream solves these problems. Below that, a brief piece titled "Waves" discusses ocean waves and Wall Street speculation—a pun comparing financial market volatility to literal waves. This is primarily a **consumer-focused magazine page** blending entertainment columns with product advertising typical of 1920s-era Life magazine.
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At the Pie Counter A Monologue. H my! Let me in there! I'll take that millionaire! Please! No, not that old thing; that young one! I'll take him! Yes, I'd like that yacht and all those things that go with it. Yes, yes! And that marble house! Oh, I must have that marble house! I'll take that. (About Twenty Years Later.) Is this article returnable? Yes, I know it is the millionaire I took, but I’m tired of him! Return those things that I got with him? Never! They're all mine. But he is not a fit. I don’t like him any more. He isn't nice! A large bite out of him? Oh, well, but he is still a good millionaire for some one. Some one else will be sure to want him, but J’d like that other one now, please. I have been a good cus- tomer. I can exchange them, can’t I? (Still Later.) I want that young duke for my daughter. Not the guaranteed kind? Oh, well; a duke is a duke. That other one? Not on your life. The one I said! He's the pick of the lot for pedigree. Never mind his tricks. I guess I'm up to them, I guess I know what I want for my daughter, (And Finally.) I want the vote! vote! vote! I want my proper place in public life! You're mean to women! You cheat them at every turn. That duke I got of you was mean to my daughter, and I can’t make her bring him back. I want the vote, I say! I will have the vote! You're mean to women—Mean, mean, to women, but I'll have what I want! I'll have it, I say! Give me my vote, give it to me! The horrible after-effects of shaving Every man has felt them; many experience them every time they shave. Don’t have them— Hot, smarting skins, ingrowing hairs, un- sightly face eruptions, belong back in the Dark Ages of shaving. We have recently received hundreds of letters from men who now know the real cause of their former shaving troubles. For years they blamed their razors—now they have no cause for complaint —the creamy, instant beard-softening lather of Mennen’s Shaving Cream solved their troubles. Mennen’s Shaving Cream One man wrote us that he is using all his old safety blades over again; another that he gets four or five extra shaves out of every blade; a third, “It almost makes a dull razor sharp". Mennen’s lathers up with the brush almost instantly, requiring none of the mussy ‘rubbing in” with the fingers, which causes fric- tion and makes the skin tendei Most important of all, it contains no free caustic or other irritant, which is the chief cause of the dis- agreeable after-effects of shaving. Put up in air-tight tubes with handy, large, hexagon screw tops. At all dealers—25c, ane : = Send 10¢ for a Demonstrator tube containing fifty shaves. Lane Bryant Gerhard Mennen Company, Newark, N. J. Makers 25 West 38th Street NEW YORK of the celebrated Mennen's Borated and Violet Talcum oe ee ee Toilet Powders, and Mennen's Cream Dentifrice. The nature of service we give our customers cannot be judged by orders placed elsewhere. Our establishment is unique, We show a large selection of Dresses Coats Blouses Skirts Negligees Waves fists fee Leemadicce reer. No chaepe ‘AVES are used on the ocean and in hair, They come in crests, breakers and ted for you without extra charge. curling-irons. They are also put up in ether when they cannot be seen, and a! (as illustrated) Crepe de 13.75 you have to take the dealer’s word that you are getting your money’s worth. ite Drew wiht Lace 6 "= 6 aoe Warm waves are common to both summer and winter; in summer they come just Yolen Hit Canoe °K" mata ext a town ve when, owing to the delightful weather and a careful perusal of the “Old Farmers’ Extra sizes for stout figures Almanac”, you have made all your arrangements to stay home; in winter, when you Sanne near veer aeerrearr — have filled your furnace with two or three tons of coal and turned on all the draughts k the eight hological i - * u New Thought Parmererics Sten ebetied wil until you have a bed of coals that would take a blue ribbon in Hades, and nobody can eaied aces 1 ces sey fine foe witch one, bas ae- put it out but the fire department. Waves are also scen in Wall Street. Little lambs can be seen occasionally sitting upon their crests until another wave comes along and knocks them over, COMMICIOOO) teats, which le, dives, with three moctt rial subscription laut 5 as etl pestis of Ray ona ey