Life, 1920-02-19 · page 46 of 48
Life — February 19, 1920 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This LIFE magazine page contains mostly **advertising** (Canthrox shampoo, Forhan's toothpaste) with two separate comic items: **Top cartoon**: A domestic satire about social climbing. Two women (Ethel and Mabel) conspire to nominate their pretentious neighbor Mrs. Hawty as club president—not as honor, but as sabotage, expecting everyone will vote *against* her because of her annoying snobbish behavior. **Bottom comic**: "Going Straight" depicts a **racist caricature** of a Black preacher using exaggerated dialect, delivering a sermon about sin and moral reform. The humor relies on stereotypical speech patterns and religious earnestness played for laughs. This reflects the casual, dehumanizing racism common in early 20th-century American media. Both pieces are period-typical satirical content, though the second item exemplifies the deeply offensive racial mockery that would be unacceptable today.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
OU can always look forward to a pleasant and comfortable day when you have given your hair the best possible treatment, by the use of CANTHROX SHAMPOO Especially this is true if you appreciate the value of waviness and brilliance. Canthrox is the shampoo that rapidly softens and removes dandruff, excess oil and dirt. It makes a perfectly healthy scalp which will naturally produce attractive, vigorous hair. Canthrox also gives that massy fluffiness and soft- ness that makes doing up the hair a pleasure. At All Drug Stores No good hair wash costs less; none is spoonful of Canthrox in a cup of hot more easily used. Just dissolve a tea- water and your shampoo is ready effective hair wash, we will gladly send Free Trial Offer 7 ull one perfect shampoo free to any address To prove that Canthrox is the most pleas- on receipt of postage to cover mailing ant, the most simple, in all ways the most — expense: H. S. PETERSON & CO., Dept. 102, 214 W. Kinzie St., Chicago, Ill. Ethel: THERE'S THAT HORRID MRS. HAWTY, SHE'S ALWAYS PUTTING ON AIRS. Mabel: GIRts, LET’S PERSUADE HER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB AND CET EVERYBODY TO VOTE AGAINST HER. Going Straight HI revival meeting was at i height, and the congregation over. flowed through the opened doors : the church, The preacher—a chocola y, you might say—was “ pr in’ direc’ from the Bible.” “Now,” he shouted, “we goin’ see what the Lo’d say ‘bout sin” Opening the Bible, he ran his finger down to the text. Then he shook the book at the sinners. “What does the Lo'd say "bout sia? Lo’d say: Man is prone to sin! Thats it, brethe’n, man’s prone to sin. Whats that mean? Why, that means if yor hangin’ around the corners shootis’ craps, you’ prone to prone to sin! And if you all tim takin’ what don’ belong to you, yor prone to thievin'—you’ prone to ga! What you goin’ to do, brethe’'n?. What you goin’ to do? Why, j prone around the oth prone fo’ good!” Aldangerous warning ‘bleeding gums cay. out —or mat be comicbooks.com