Life, 1914-04-02 · page 50 of 68
Life — April 2, 1914 — page 50: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and light satirical content**, typical of Life magazine's format. The main satire is "The New, or Super-Shave"—a mock-serious piece about an imaginary electric razor that works like a ship's propeller, with blades at angles that "chop" whiskers instead of cutting them. The humor comes from the absurd safety warnings: operating it requires a "steady nerve," avoiding the jugular vein, and hoping family members don't interrupt with emergencies. This satirizes American impatience and the era's obsession with electrical gadgets as solutions to everyday problems. The other content includes: - **Nabisco and Adora** candy advertisements (standard period ads) - **"Are You Sound?"**—philosophical humor about judging soundness/character - **"His First Pants"** cartoon (unclear subject, likely a child-related joke) - **Sexology book advertisement**—selling sex education as necessary knowledge for marriage The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and anxieties about modernity, efficiency, and propriety.
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\ | i Dey incomparable sweets are the most universally popular of all dessert confections. Whether served at dinner, afternoon tea or any social gathering, Nabisco Sugar Wafers are equally delightful and appropriate. In ten-cent tins; also in twenty-five-cent tins. ADORA Another dessert delight. Wafers of pleasing size and form with a bountiful confectionery filling. Another help to the hostess, In ten-cent tins. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY ASUS an ADORA~ nico SUGAR WHER Aru sete The New, or Super-Shave CCORDING to a report in the Scientific American, a razor has recently been A invented which in appearance is like a diminutive electric fan, It works like the screw of a steamship, and has blades set at an angle, which, instead of cutting off one’s whiskers in the hitherto conventional manner, chop them off. We are further comforted by the statement that the razor runs by electricity. Doubtless you can regulate the number of revolutions per minute to the conditions. If, for example, you have been up late the night before, you would naturally cut down the revolutions, say, to 1,200 or 1,500 per minute. Haste is what is ruining the American people, any way. Under this new system of shaving you need no soap. Grasping the razor firmly in your hand, with the blades pointed toward you, you turn on the switch, and gradually bring it close to your face until you can feel your whiskers being removed. All that is needed is a steady nerve. Also, arrange it so that you will not be interrupted. To have any member of your family burst in upon you and inform you that the house is on fire might easily rob your morning whir of all interest. Be careful at first to practice only on that part of your face where there are no deep arteries. Even at the risk of presenting an uneven appearance in society for the first week or so, do not whir too near your jugular vein. HIS FIRST PANTS Are You Sound ? HAT does it mean to be sound? Is it a desirable condition? What is a sound theory? A sound man? When you discover such a person, are you sure of him? How long will he remain sound, and who is to be the judge of his soundness? If you decide to perform that doubt- ful function, how do you know that you are sound yourself? Should there be a proper court of inquiry to sit upon your soundness, in order to determine whether you are a fit person to sit upon the soundness of anyone else? What is unsound to-day may be sound to-morrow What is sound to- day may be unsound to-morrow. What is sound for one group is not so for another. Tommy: Pop, what is an idealist? Tommy's Por: An idealist, my son, is a very young man who thinks all women are angels.—Philadelphia Record, A Happy Marriage Depends largely on 3 knowledge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life aad health. This knoe! tdge does’ not come ie telligently of itself, ror correctly from ordivary, every-day sources. SEXOLOGY CUnstrated) dy William H. Walling, A.M., M.D., imparts in a dev wholesome way in one volume Knowledge a Young Man Should Hi Hedge a Young Husband | ahoutd, Ftave. rt to His Sov. ould Have. Knowledge a Young: Koowledes a Younes Wite Should Haves Knowledge a Mother Should Have. KBomiaige Mother Should Impert to ter Daustr tnowledge a Wite Should Ha Al Write for “Other People's Opinions” and Table of Contos. Puritan Pub. Co. 776 Perry Bldg., Phila, Ps t. The Edwards Mig. Co. 336-; $85 Eggleton he, Caco