Life, 1920-07-08 · page 34 of 40
Life — July 8, 1920 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page from Life magazine (a satirical publication) contains several distinct elements: ## "Our Foolish Contemporaries" Column Three brief humorous anecdotes mocking human behavior: - A reporter physically beaten by a divorce defendant, undeterred - An Irish-American woman confidently (and stereotypically) asserting her credibility as a witness - A comment on piano wood preservation lasting "forty years" The satire targets journalistic persistence, ethnic stereotypes, and editorial absurdity. ## Central Image An ornate Egyptian-style cigarette advertisement for "Deities" brand (30¢), featuring decorative hieroglyphic-inspired design. ## Supporting Jokes & Ads Brief comic exchanges about marital debt, lying, and a sketch captioned "Bah! I never liked the game, anyhow" (unclear reference). ## Main Advertisement Mary T. Goldman's "Scientific Hair Color Restorer" for gray hair—a period cosmetic product offering a free trial. The page represents typical early 20th-century magazine content: satirical social commentary mixed with product advertising.
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FOO LI ISH CONTEMPO ARIES | 1e Utmost in Cigarettd Plain End or Cork Tip ae The reporter was sent out by a certain city editor to question a well-known young amateur sportsman who was being sued for divorce, The reporter called up a couple of hours later and said, “Boss, I can’t get anything out of this fellow. He's a big whale, and when I rang the bell and asked him how about this divorce action he just reached out and clipped me on the jaw and knocked me down. ‘Then he slammed the 7 door. I waited around awhile and brushed “Eure myself off, and then I tried it again, He author: came out and said, ‘Oh, you're here again, . So t are you?’ and he took me by the collar and : / self threw me down a flight of stairs, So I ; : 4 \ guess there’s nothing doing on getting any - oe thing out of him, boss. I'll come right i lady ir “No,” said the city editor. “You go Phidias back and tell that big loafer he can’t intimi- | She | rk Tribune. “Dd. Irish-American “Tl tell what I know,” said an excited authori old woman as she took the witness stand : Oblig in a Topeka court the other day. “I ain't a liar nor a Russian or anything. I'm an Inviting Trouble Money and Credit aes npr Just wait til T boing fess ae “I'm having trouble in supporti ¥ Giren 2) 1 just loaned Sinith te dollars “Life And from the manner in which her Irish wife.” Brown: And he just paid back ten dol l a p and stayed up, body agreed “wy 4 P | . ene up an - tayed up eer pody ears You don't dow: what. troullle te y lars he owed me; so here's the ten I bor- igh. she ~~ an / Hi ae and a very militant not supporting her. rowed from you the other day. Dea one.—Kansas City Star. > > , n sas City Star Louisville Courier-Jour —Pennsylvania Punch Bort. -Hora Wooo for making pianos, says a weekly . Paradox ae journal, is often kept for forty years. “* And A man may tell the same lie about the Wa even this,” writes “Jaded Parent,” “is not 7 2 same thing to the same man seven times | '% tho half long enough."”—Punch, J seven, and be accounted truthful. Let him J” Ph vary in but the merest detail and he tad pes liar. Such is the patent gullibility of a too Sile End Gray Hair ‘ conscientious world.—Sketch. arol i “Her Let Science Show You How “e — Modern Now the way “hi 4 by, pat found for scientifically re- Rig] storing gray hair to ae “M ural color. And it Js offere: / Mig to women in Mary T. Gold- “ cme man's Scientific Halr Color ernment Restorer. No. treatments are re- quired. You apply it your- self, easily, quickly and surely. We urge you to make a trial test. It will cost you pothing. ‘Scientific Hair Color Restorer A Free Test Cut out the coupon. | Mark on it the exact color of your Mail tt to us, and we will Seer oer tree a" trial bottle of MART T. GOLDMAN'S and one of our special combs. Try It on a lock of your hair. Note the results. Then you will know why thousands Be women Rave already used this. eclentifie hair color restorer. “cnaEAN YT. Go! 198t Goldman Blag., St. Paul, Minn. , EL COPY THIS SKETCH sedlet me ace what you can do with It N Sore arses caralon $90.00 per week were trained u individual “wan! 1 NEVER LIKED THE GAME, ANYHOW ” 1470 Schofield Bidg., ne sot Obio comicbooke Sai