Life, 1919-12-18 · page 40 of 56
Life — December 18, 1919 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The few jokes present satirize social conventions: The "Perversity" cartoon mocks dating etiquette—a young woman refuses to go to the garden *with* a chaperone (proper), but also refuses *without* one (improper), creating an absurd double-bind. The humor targets the rigid, contradictory expectations placed on women's behavior. A second short joke ridicules a laborer's deception: he carries a hod of mortar up and down repeatedly to fool his boss into thinking he's working hard. This satirizes workplace dishonesty and worker-management relations. The page is dominated by period advertisements for **Stromberg carburetors, Brad sport gloves, Hinds Cream, Major's Cement, and a "Sexual Knowledge" book**—typical early 20th-century commercial offerings. No identifiable political cartoons or caricatures appear.
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1034 rs H ro ONTEMFOR RARIES ae sa Perversity Younc Man: Please come out in the garden with me. Farr Co-ep: Oh, no, I mustn't xo out without a chaperone. Younc Max: But we don't need one. Fair Co-ro: Then I don’t want to go. —St. Augustine Record. Kxickee: So Smith invented a labor- saving machine? Bocker: Yes, when it won't work it saves the striking of ten men —New York Sun SrortiF The cold-weather glove that a wetting will not ruin. ladder to-day? 5 b kin’. WOMEN’S $6.50 poe But: Hush, I'm foolin’ the boss. I've carried this same hodful up MEN’s $7.00 an’ down all day, and he thinks I've —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Conservation, Those are the two urgent demands of th day. They are vita period of post-war readjustment. meets both—to the fullest extent. On any car—underany condition—it in creases production of power, of speed and of mileage It conserves fuel and fuel costs. Effects th greatest of economy through development of greatest fuel force, insuring a decided improvement in engine efficiency—an importan increase in driving power and radical reduction in travel costs. Writ for literature. State name, year and model of, your machine. STROMBERG MOTOR DEVICES COMPANY, § COMPANY, Det 1212, 1212, 64 East 25th Street, A Gay Deceiver Joux: You work hard hods of mortar have yuh carried up that How many There is a suggestion of Quality about Heck: My wife contradicts me con- “BRAD” SPORT GLOVES that is very pleasing. tinually Peck: My wife acts as if my ideas weren't worth discussing. —Boston Transcript, tomelike~ but still in the heart of thing aings Derantinc Guest: Enjoyed ourselves? Oh yes! What I'm upset about is leav- RADFORD «- rr Street. REB FO! 19 Bu ing your hotel so soon after I've bought it.—London Opinion. Ath for Style Slips and Name of Nearest Dealer. Groversvitig, Naw Yore This fascinating collection © for a Gif oe of six dainty pink- packaged Follet Requisites,, all-in a The Best for Repairing Glassware convenient rose-tinted box—fragrant, refined—will Crockery, Vases Meerschaum, Furniture, appealat oncetoyouif you'veever used Hinds Cream. he Books, Ti i inter fc h, ct d ski i f ping Billiard Cues, &c. in winter for rough, cha) od skin, as in summer rs cane, the skin 8 Use Major’s Cement | Sunburn, and at all times to cleanse, soften arld freshen the skin, | there’s nothing better than Hinds Cream. The Gift Box, SOc. Rubber and leather. All three kinds, 15¢ per tle. Dealers: Please send for special offert Ea. 1876 | SAMPLES—Be sure to enclose stamps with your request. Hinds | Honey and Almond Cream 2c. Both Cold and Disappearing Cream 4c. Taleum Trial Cake Soap 8c. Face Powder, sample 2c; trial size 15¢. Attractroe Weck-End Box 50c, S E X U A L 320 Pages ILLUSTRATED _— Cloth By Winfield Scott Hall, M.D., Ph.D. SEX FACTS MADE PLAIN What every young maa and Every young woman should know What every young husband and Hinds Cream Toilet Necessities are selling everywhere or will be mailed postpaid in U. S. A. from laboratory. A. S. HINDS, 208 West Street, Portland, Maine Hinds“, Cream