Life, 1915-05-06 · page 46 of 56
Life — May 6, 1915 — page 46: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine (a satirical publication) combines humor with period advertising. The main satirical content includes: **"Examination for Admission to 'High Society' in the Suburbs"**: A mock questionnaire mocking suburban pretensions—asking absurd distinctions (golf stick vs. club) and trivial concerns (proper hen food, parlor etiquette) to satirize the shallow social-climbing anxieties of suburban middle-class aspirants trying to appear refined. **"Unique" Circus Manager Joke**: Satirizes post-WWI publishing trends by presenting an author who *hasn't* written a sensationalized "inside story of the Great War" as a circus freak—mocking the flood of such exploitative war memoirs flooding the market at that time. **"Needed a Tonic"**: A gentle joke about Pete the hired man's enormous appetite—he's eaten breakfast but claims he needs "a tonic" (likely alcohol) to complete it. The page is otherwise dominated by period advertisements (Resinol Soap, Old Town Canoes, cigarettes, eye shades) typical of 1920s magazines. The satirical content reflects Jazz Age anxieties about class, commercialism, and postwar cultural trends.
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Examination For Admission to “ High Society” in the Suburbs. HAT is the difference between a golf stick and a golf club? When, at an evening bridge party, you have won a prize of a brass waste basket that weighs a couple of tons, ought you to wheel it home in a wheelbarrow or should your host em- ploy a moving van at his own expense? What is the difference between a Congregational and a Presbyterian clergyman? Have you a definite formula for the right food for hens in winter which you are ready to defend with your life, and what is it? Are you fully acquainted with sub- urban parliamentary law? Have you ever supported a hospital? \ children’s home? Triplets? Would you be willing to be a Demo- erat occasionally? A Republican? A Progressive? What would you rather do than teach a class in Sunday-school? Have you ever taken care of a fur- nace? Discharged a cook? Waited ona table? Unique IRCUS MANAGER (to appli- ): You say you want a job in the sideshow, eh? What are your qualifications as a freak? Arpuicant (proudly): 1 am the only living author who has not written the inside story of the Great War. HERE are three excellent reasons why Resinol Soap appeals so strongly to the woman who wishes to pre- serve or restore the fresh, youthful charm of her com- plexion, or to protect her baby's deli- cate skin— It gives a free, creamy and unusually cleansing lather, in either hard or soft water. Its ingredients are pure and utterly wholesome, with no trace of free al- kali—that harsh, drying chemical which many soap-makers find too difficult and expensive to remove. makes healthy skins andclear complexions And best of all, it contains the sooth- ing Resinol medication that physicians have prescribed for years, in Resinol Ointment, for skin affections—just enough of it to keep the skin soft, the complexion clear, and to make baby’s bath an insurance against annoying chafings and eruptions. If the skin already is in bad condition through neglect, or the complexion injured by the unwise use of cosmetics, a little Resinol Ointment should at first be used to help the Resinol Soap restore their nat: ural health and beauty. Resinol Soap is sold by all druggists and dealers in toilet goods, For write to Dept. SHARE THE FUN OF CANOEING THIS SUMMER Don’t envy canoeists a ‘Old Town Canoe"? at little cost and J ny Ho ya can buy an sajoy canoeing yourself itis ane of the few sport Jromen enjoy as well as men. wn Canoes’ \ceful, sturdy and durable—priced $39 up. Dealers rad y—all everywhere.. Send for catalog of cance views telling the wholesiory.. LD TOWN GABOE 00, 1698 Media St, Md Towa, Maize, 0.6.4. Needed a Tonic Pete, the hired man, was known for his prodigious appetite. One morning he vera [3 BLOUSES SKIRT: had eaten a normal breakfast of oa DACTURERS P| meal, buckwheat cakes, toast, fried po- erLanebomtire tatoes, ham, eggs, doughnuts, coffee, and — the usual trimmings, and gone to a neighbor's to help with extra work. Pete arrived before the family had risen from the morning meal. “Well, Pete,” hospitably inquired the farmer, “had breakfast yet?” drawled Pete in a wheedling kinda.”"—Everybody's, Regia wow to strengthen your eyes. and be sure of future happiness and success. At your Grugele, sationer or posted to yo4 igt of 2c. Address FEATHERWEICHT! EYE SHADE CO., Bor D, Merchantville. W.J- comicbooks.com