Life, 1920-04-01 · page 8 of 60
Life — April 1, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and poetry**, not political satire. The dominant content is a **Sanatogen advertisement** featuring a doctor and patient. The ad promotes Sanatogen as a tonic for rebuilding health and energy, claiming endorsement from physicians worldwide. This reflects early 20th-century patent medicine marketing, when such tonics were heavily advertised despite unproven efficacy. The right side contains **"A Song" by Carolyn Wells**—a romantic poem about romantic uncertainty and a woman's conflicted feelings. Below are small cartoons titled "Business Before Pleasure" showing domestic scenes, likely humorous commentary on prioritizing work over leisure. Additional ads include **Masonic books/jewelry** and **Palisade Kennels police dogs**. The page primarily represents commercial advertising typical of 1910s-era Life magazine.
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“—and then with just a few weeks more of Sanatogen” § N the road to health at last! And yet how impatient you are to be upand going. Butitis now, when the system is trying to rebuild its store of energy, that you will be most grateful for the reconstructive help of Sana- togen. Sanatogen, you must know, is a natural food-tonic, combining purest albumen with organic phosphorus— thus conveying to the wasted system the vital elements to build up blood tissues—and it is so rem: bly sy of digestion that the most delicate —young and old. n_take it, with nothing but beneficial effects. It reawakens the appetite, assists digestion, and as a physician in “The Practitioner,” a leading medical jour- nal, says, “It* seems to possess a wonderful effect in increasing the nutritive value of other food material.” When we tell you that Sanatogen is used by ‘the medical profession all over the world as an aid te convalescence and as an upbuilder of strength and vitality, that moro than 21,000 physicians have written letters commending it, you will understand that our confidence ip recommending it to you is firm and sincere. Won't you give Sanatogen the opportunity to help bring back you—or someone that is near aad dear to you—to health and strength? Sanatogen is sold by good druggists everywhere, ia sizes from $1.20 up. Grand Prize International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913 Write for interesting booklet to 115 West 18th Street New York City Ved Mndorsed/by P TL LL BUSINESS BEFOKE PLEASURE Send for a Complete Catalogue MASONIC BOOK gee Jewelry and Goo REDDING & CO. Mishers and Manutscturces Dept. L. 200 Fifth Avenue, New, A Song (With Thanks to Mr, Wither HALL I count my life a loss "Cause 1 see a woman cross? Or unhappiness presage “Cause she’s in a towering rage? Be she angry, sharp, irate, Full of spleen or burning hate— So she de not cross with me What care I how cross she be Shall I cease to be serene ‘Cause I find a woman mean? ing over all she bought, Lending none, and giving naught; And when others with her dine, Scrimping on the food and wince If she be not mean to me, What care I how mean she be? Shall I think my chances slim "Cause T see a woman prim? Of success shall I despair When I note her hz Though she be de Prudish as a Qua So she be not prim to me. What care I how prim she be? Shall I rave and lose my mind "Cause a woman false I fi When she seems to be, forsooth, Soul of loyalty and truth, Yet with diabolic arts She can hoodwink trusting hearts So she be not false to me, What care I how false she be? Shall I sigh and wish me dead "Cause I find a woman wed? Or attempt my life to end e she’s married to my friend? Though she bears another's nam She can charm me just the s So she be not wed to me, What care I whose wife she be? Carolyn Ih Cooper. Thanks very much. May 1 borrow your lawn-mower?” PALISADE * POLICE DOGS One does not buy a dog every } day—that’s whyoneshould care- | fully consider the dog one buys. Merrick Road Rosedale Long Island Box 90 comicbooks.com