Life, 1920-06-10 · page 32 of 44
Life — June 10, 1920 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for period products (deodorant, hair removal), garden hose, and riverboat services. However, the center contains a satirical cartoon section titled "Our Foolish Contemporaries." The featured cartoon, "Survival of the Profited," mocks wartime profiteering and class disparity. A wealthy woman ("Wife of Profiteer") casually purchases an expensive fur coat ($975) using cash from her stocking, while a poorer woman ("Lady") who has been economically stressed by inflation (the "H.C.L."—high cost of living) cannot afford it. The joke's bitter edge: the profiteer's spouse thrives financially while ordinary citizens struggle. The surrounding jokes mock fortune tellers, used cars, and differing opinions—light social commentary typical of Life magazine's satirical humor. The cartoon suggests moral criticism of those who profited excessively during World War I while others faced genuine hardship.
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Do you borrow Garden Hose or lend it? Whichever you do, you will enjoy Mr. Butler’s inimitable garden hose story, ‘‘Milling- ham’s Cat-Fooler,”’ which we have obtained permission to re- print for the entertainment of our friends. 32 pages, bound in boards and illustrated with amusing pictures. Sent free to promote your garden hose educa- tion. This book contains no advertising, direct or inferential. With it we enclose a pamphlet: “The Truth About Garden Hose” h tells you how to know a good hose ce it, how to get the kind of hose to your needs, and how to care for it to make it wear as long as possible. A book of valuable information for every gardener, florist, garage owner, or other user of hose. Incidentally, it tells you about our three stan- dard brands of garden hose. BULL DOG MILO GOOD LUCK and explains why these particular brands have become within 5 years the most widely talked se on the market, and why one of them vill exactly fit your garden hose needs. Send for these books today. BOSTON WOVEN HOSE AND RUBBER COMPANY 153 Portland St., Cambridge, Mass. Largest makers of Garden Hose in the world and manufacturers of the famous GOOD LUCK Fruit Jar Rubbers 66 prevents perspiration odors You may be as active as you please throughout these warm days, and still be free from the embarrassing odor of perspiration. A finger-tip of “Mum” applied here and there after the morning bath will keep body and clothing fresh and sweet all day and evening. clothing. Harmless to skin and Get * Mum” at the first drug- or department-store Or let us send you a jar, postpaid, on receipt of pri Evans’s Depilatory There is no danger in removing hair temporarily from arms, underarms or face. Evans’s Depilatory does it gently and quickly without irritating the most delicate skin, 75¢. at drug- or dept.-stores, or from us, postpaid, on receipt of price George B. Evans Evans's Cucumber J, FO OLISHA CONTEMIO ARIES A a Survival of the Profited Lavy (who has been hard hit by the H.C. L., looking at some fur coats): Nine hundred and seventy- -five dollars for this coat, you s. Perhaps you had better show me a uff and stole instead. Wire oF Proriteer (picking up coat and trying it on): Nine hundred and seventy- five dollars only? I'll take it. (Pulling a wad of bills from out her stocking and turning superbly toward the other cus- tomer.) Them t was ain't York Evening Sun. Wire: I went to a fortune teller to-day, and she prophesied that [ would soon have a new gown. Hun: There, you see it’s just as I al- ways told you—these fortune tellers never tell the truth.—Boston Transcript. “You ought to read the newspapers and xet a different opinion.” “Opinion! Good Lord, man, [have three already.”"—Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern, Tue time to buy a used car 1s just before you move, so people in the new neighbor- hood will think you were the one who used it—Kansas City Star. A rrienp who is not in need is a friend indeed —Answers. 1108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia sunburn Hudee Riv by Peviight Cool, satisfying comfort between New York—Albany and intermediate landings SEASON MAY 15 TO OCT. 24 All through rail tickets between NewYork and Albany accepted Hudson River Day Line Desbrosses St. Pier New York Fully equipped Motor , Caravan J fagland gust, 425 weekly, in : Apply DR. red 11 BOLTON GARDENS, 8. ¥- comicbooks.com