Life, 1917-03-29 · page 5 of 42
Life — March 29, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate items: a Fownes glove advertisement on the left and unrelated editorial content on the right. The **left side** is a straightforward commercial ad emphasizing brand prestige—Fownes gloves have been "sold by Name" for 140 years, establishing trustworthiness through longevity. The small cartoon about a doorplate naming dispute illustrates an absurdist marriage problem, contrasting trivial naming disputes with real relationship issues. This supports the ad's implied message: quality products solve practical concerns, leaving couples free to address actual problems. The **right side** contains a "Too Horrible to Contemplate" humor column, a Standard Oil Company constipation remedy ad featuring a cave-man scene, and an unrelated advice piece about marriage—none politically significant. The page appears primarily **commercial/entertainment rather than satirical commentary**.
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When the graving. No two people can settle it, because, unfortunately, the whole world is mixed up in the partnership. Too Homble to Contemplate OLLY: Won't it be just grand maker’s name when woman can vote? Dotty: But just suppose election should come on a day when you have a fitting at your dressmaker's. The only practical workable solution of the marriage problem, up to the time of going to press, is Love. If two peo- ple really love each other, and their love is abiding, they can do all the HE Chinaman who discovered queer things they like, and it doesn’t gunpowder wasn’t half as clever much matter. They can get their sup- as the Chinaman who discovered that plies from the Bureau of Engraving if he wanted to be sure of his copy of and Printing or from a farm on the Lire each week he would have to leave side of the hill. Love covers a multi- an order in advance with his news- tude of freaks. dealer, appears on his pro- duct, he is not afraid to risk his reputation on it. For almost 140 years Fownes gloves have been sold by Name. Look in the that’s all you need to know about a GLOVE. Only One Way YOUNG woman in New York, named Taylor, has married a man named Marsh, with the understanding that she is to retain her name and in- dependence. The name on their door- plate is “ Mr. Marsh and Miss Taylor.” Their expenses are divided equally be- tween them, Thus they expect to solve the marriage problem. If the marriage problem could be solved by a set of names on a door- plate, how easy it would all be—a mere affair of engraving. But the mar- riage problem is not an affair of en- If You Lived As The Cave Man Lived Your health would take care of itself HE cave man ate coarse food and lived a strenuous life in the open. His digestive apparatus was suited to that kind of an existence. You inherit from the cave man the same internal mechanism, but youeat digerent food and youlead adigerent kind ofa life. Hence the almost universal prevalence of constipation and its constant menace to health Your problem is to adjust that * of yours to the sedentary lif man. NUJOL accomplishes thi bowel contents from becom! thus making natural move- ments easy, It doesn’t upset the ordinary processes of digestion and it doesn’t form a habit. NUJOL is sold in pint bottles only, at all drug stores. Refuse substitutes—look for the name NUJOL on the bottle and package. Dept. 15 STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonne New Jersey “ KNOWLEDGE A FATHER SHOULD IMPART Send for booklet, “THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION." Write your name TO HIS SON.” and address plainly on the margin below, comicbooks.com