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Life — November 6, 1919 — page 32: Life, 1919-11-06

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This page is primarily **advertising** rather than political satire. The main content is: **"After-Dinner Follies"** (top right): A humorous advice column suggesting wives stage home entertainments to keep husbands from attending Broadway shows and staying late at the office. The suggestion involves family members performing a jazz-themed show with music, dancing, and singing—reflecting 1920s jazz-age entertainment as a novelty to entertain businessmen. It's gentle domestic satire about keeping husbands engaged at home. **Full-page advertisements** dominate the layout: - **A.A. Vantine & Co.**: Promoting an Oriental gift catalog - **Ingram's Therapeutic Shaving Cream**: With usage instructions - **Cuticura soap** and **Cortez cigars**: Smaller ads **"An Unforeseen Calamity"** (bottom): A brief anecdote about someone refusing to return a lost dog because the reward-seeker's wife was rude when answering the door—a mild joke about unexpected social consequences. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and domestic life concerns rather than political commentary.

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After-Dinner Follies Or, Better than the Best Show in Town IVES and children of tired businey men, attention! Is Dad too oftes missing these evenings? Is he detained at the office? Does Broadway daig him after hours? Has he the best-show. in-town habit? Why not keep him at home by stag ing a best show of your own? Some thing a little better th ¢ best? Try it on the old man next time he pops in for a bite. After dinner tum the sone the parlor, and, mother, you take away his hat and coat and give for them. Harold, you town business friend Take that chair next to his and talk mysteriously about the market until the lights go out. This is the signal for parting the parlor cur. tains—lights on in the music room J omni Now, Alice, you start the phonograph, and you, Willic, pump the player. for all you're worth. Both together— that’s fine! Be sure the cook and heg crew have all the family china, plate, glassware and kitchen utensils ready fog] action. When th breakage, have mothe: up their heels and enter, dancing, a they sing Life is just one jazz jamboree! If T jazz with you, won't you jazz with me? Father likes this. Hear him dap, madly for more! Come back and do it all over again, while Alice runs up Ose tv Free Catalog of Gifts Brings the Orient to Your Home With this beautiful book—which is mailed postpaid on request—you may wander. in fancy through th: mes: KET SK Bazaars of the Far East without leaving your own fireside. It illustrates (imany in actual colors), and describes hundreds of quaint and curious Oriental objects of art and utility imported by Vantine's for Christmas Gifts, for the American home and for your own personal use. WRITE FOR YOUR FREE COPY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK TODAY See what an adequate expression of your Christmas sentiment may be had, at “The Oriental Store” for a few cents or a few dollars, in gifts that will be treasured always. Included are fans, fancy baskets, furniture, band bags, incense and incense burners, jewelry, kimonos, lamps. lacquer trays, lanterns, men's neckwear, Oriental candies, pe . purses, porcelains, rugs, ol shawls, scarfs, silks, toys, tea seta, wadded robes and bundreds of other distinctive and individual “Thia: men, women and children. Write now. Your name and address on a postal will do. Address Dept. 6. fe, -A:A:VANTINE:&-CO-Inc- om "new York TM Therapeutic The Largest Oriental Store in America. Established Over Half a Century. Shave ag G yea For a clean, close, comfortable shave, get —= = 2 of Ingram's Therapeutic Shaving Cream " use it in this way: Place a portion of tee An Unforeseen Calamity || septic eream on the chin. _ Moisten your 8 i i brush and work the cream into a rich, dense, lo 'M never going to return a lost article lasting lather. Applying plenty of water, to anyone again,” said a Kansas lather to soften the entire beard: Tnerg city ma . 1 Shaving Cream keeps the skin healthful, eet ne oe a i irritation and healing small abrasions or scrapes “ay, | ace of tneram’s Zodenta fe [Ail drogatste: Soap, Ointment 52M, Talcem 2B. Well, this fellow advertised a reward ; packas ehtemamrt ete a ae Sample each free of “Caticara, Dept. B, Boston.”* for the return of his dog, and no ques- re i p = — tions asked. And then when I took the 2 : Togram's Theraneatic Shaving © FOR g MEN OF BRAINS dog and went upand rang the bell, his wife We will then remit to the drugs is profit 08 answered the door.""—Kansas City Star F. F. INGRAM CO., 38 Tenth St.. Detroit, Mic — Canadian Address. Windsor. Ont, Address, Melbourne, T. W- . A Max may found a creed almost by ac- Utd., Agt- Se “MADE AT KEY WEST— cident, but not a bank —N_Y. Evening Sun comicbooks.com@