Life, 1916-03-16 · page 37 of 44
Life — March 16, 1916 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page combines short comedic sketches with period advertisements. **"Overlooked"** is a brief domestic comedy: a husband expresses surprise that his daughter is marrying without consulting her parents first. The wife's response—that modern girls are "thoughtless"—is the joke's punchline, suggesting generational anxiety about young women's independence and changing social norms around courtship and parental authority. **"A Toast"** is a short verse tribute to unknown war poets, lamenting that poets of WWI (which was ongoing when this was published) receive neither contemporary nor posthumous recognition, unlike "good versifiers." The **"Ella"/"Stella" dialogue** jokes about divorce custody: in a settlement, the wife kept the pets but the husband retains visitation rights—a wry observation on modern marital dissolution. The page is primarily filled with period **advertisements**: Dunlap hats, Allen's Foot-Ease powder (marketed to soldiers), Evans Ale, and Sanatogen (a patent tonic claiming to restore youth, endorsed by 21,000 physicians). These ads reflect early 20th-century consumer culture and WWI-era marketing.
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Overlooked IFE: Mabel has just informed me that she is going to be married. Huspanp: Have you seen the young man? “Not yet.” “Um! Considering that she is our daughter, don’t you think she should have consulted us first?” “But you must remember, dear, that ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE The Antiseptic Powder to Shake Into Your Shoes and use in the Foot-Rath. Makes tight- Sitting or new shoes feel easy. Over 100,000 packages are being used by the German and Allied troops at the front, Nothing rests the feet so quickly and thor- oughly. It takes the friction from the Shoe, the sting out of Corns and Bunions and makes walking a delight. We 30,000 testimonials. Try it T+ Y everywhere, 2c. Don't accept any substitute, the girls of to-day are so thoughtless!” “ane FREE ony Comic fort” ALLEN 8. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N. Ye Worn when the utmost is demanded in Style and Quality. 178-180 Fifth Ave. 181 Broadway NEW YORK cacao PRILADELPELA Ageactes ta all Principal Citles A Toast I" is the fortune of good versifiers to be appreciated before, and the misfortune of good poets to be appre- ciated after, their death. It is the ill luck of war poets to be appreciated neither before nor after. Probably the present war has inspired some of the worst poetry ever writ- ten, There may, however, be saved from it some one thing worth while. If so, here’s to the author. You, sir, are at present unknown, your lines have been overlooked. Be pleased to know, however, that pos- terity will not forget you. Your im- To the Man who would Stay Young Ponce de Leon failed in his search— _ tissues, revitalizing starved cells, en- just as has everyone else who believed —_riching blood and thus storing up health mortality is hereby assured. When you no longer know it, you shall meet with your reward, LLA: So they are finally divorced. Which one got the dogs and cats? Stetra: She did. But he has the privilege of seeing them once a month. orget the Winter— Prepare for Spring that the secret of youth lay in other than simply the conservation of the youth that Nature herself gives. The secret of youth lies lin making good, promptly and thoroughly, the many drains and overdraughts that modern ways of living impose upon the bodycells—for the cells are thebrick and mortar of the body structure, It lies in guarding and husbanding the finer strength of the nervous system, which overwork, worry and stress undermine. It is in this work of conservation that Sanatogen has proven itself of such distinct merit. In rebuilding wasted and energy against the passage of time. Sanatogen has been preeminently successful, As Sir Gilbert Parker, thestatesman- novelist, has written: “Sanatogen is to my mind a true food-tonic, feeding the nerves, in- cre the energy, and giving freah vigor to the overworked body nd mind.” And when you realize that more than 21,000 physicians have written—as they have—their approval of the use of San- atogen, you can see for yourself that its reputation is founded not on theory but on actual results. Let Sanatogen be the guardian of your youth! Sanatogen fe sold by good druggists, everywhere, in sizes from $1.00 up. Grand Prize, International Congress of Medicine, London. 1913 for **The Art of Living,"’ a charming booklet by Richard Le Gallienne, the popular poet-author, touching on Sanatogen’ diy help, and giving other interesting ai the quest for contentment and better health. The book is free. Tear this off as a reminder to write THE BAUER CHEMICAL COMPANY, 24Elrving Place, New York City, will put new life into you. serial ease. 1916 | comicbooks.com