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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor content**, not political satire. It contains: **Main Content:** - Diamond ring advertisements from Jason Weiler & Sons (Boston) - Several short humorous anecdotes titled "Our Foolish Contemporaries," a regular Life feature satirizing everyday human absurdities - Advertisements for Laurel-in-the-Pines resort, skin cream, and Bellans indigestion remedy **The Humor:** The anecdotes mock modern conventions and pretensions: - "A Sore Point" ridicules a courtroom liar claiming offense at being called a liar - "The Conventional Thing" jokes about a woman whose only concern about eloping is that her old photographs predate her bobbed hairstyle (suggesting 1920s-30s era) - "Not Much to Choose" satirizes a couple's marriage troubles over excessive affection **Context for Modern Readers:** These aren't political cartoons but rather gentle mockery of contemporary social situations—relationship dynamics, vanity, and legal absurdity. The bobbed hair reference suggests this is 1920s-era Life, when women's fashion choices were culturally significant.

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170 _ . i LIFE RL FOOLISH —BUY aw DI [AMONDS 2: DIRECT_ “198 From JASON WEILER & SONS, Boston, Mass. One of America’s leading diamond importers and save 20 to 40 per cent. on regular retail prices For over 44 years the house of Jason Weiler & Sons of Boston has been one of the leading diamond import- concernsin America calling to jewelers. However, a large busi- ness is done direct by mail with customers at importing prices! Here of diamond ONTEMFO ARIES A Stranger in the World A Scotch shepherd lived with his wife and child in a very lonely and deserted part of the Highlands. His home was a hut as far away from civilization as his language was from English. The child had never seen any other human being than his parents. Nearly six years of age, this child had not seen a house but the meagre structure in which he ate and slept. To him the world was no more than what was bounded by the mountain sky-line. But the brook was ever a source of mystery, for it came out of the ground a few miles away and fell over a courts, pine-clad walks and bridle cliff beyond the wood into still further mys- paths await you. The Atlantic tery. Ocean, but ten miles away, adds Doe dey she. child Gwen eimaiag, bestde all the delights of the seashore. the gurgling stream, when he suddenly Excellent roads stretching forth espied, wading in the waters round the bend, in all directions make Lakewood a solitary fisherman. The fisherman was a motorist's paradise. roughly garbed, bedrded and hoary, like a A half dozen trains leave New mountaineer. The child was fitst astonished Jodie and aE hiladelphia each day and then terrified. At the utmost speed he 2 could acquire, he rushed towards his home shouting: “Mitherr, mitherr! | Here's funny thing coming up the burrnp like fey~ - - - 1 Sk lai ‘The Conventional Thing A Sore Point Romantic Youtiu: Why do you hesitate, In a-case tried in the South the judge darling? We could easily run away and get very sternly demanded of the defendant married. “Why did you strike this man?” His Faxey: My dear boy, you're too “Your Honor,” was the reply, “he called impossible! Why, the only photographs | me-a liar.” could leave behind me were taken before I “Is that true?” asked the judge, turning had my hair bobbed !—Passing Show. Se to the man with the battered countenance. We er out ter rely oy Bek or nwa w Cenainy, ite true, your Honor” said . Helpful If desired, rings will be sent the accuser. “I called him a liar because “Very kind man, the senator. Wrote out to your bank or any Express he is one, and [ can prove it.” the inserview I asked for and saved me any trouble.” Ge. with privilege of examine Then the judge turned to the defendant for fall value forall all time goes with, “What have you to say to that?” “Wrote it out?” Edo’ think ie Kas anything co do with “Yes. Even asked himself the necessary iW cases four Hower, Even 1 Lam olla questions.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. 1 reckon I've got a mght to be sensitive about it, ‘ain't 1? "—Harper's Ir is customary for each generation to poke fun at the preceding one, and if the Nox Much te: Gheose praciice continues what a time they will be having in a decade or two. Mawacen oF Orrice ‘ was the matter with your last place? —Homplon:Resds M Domestic: The couple had only married a month, and 1 couldn't stand th’ love-makin’. Manacee LAUREL- in-the-PINES LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY OPEN THE YEAR ‘ROUND OUR vacation dreams will come true at Lakewood. Two beautiful lakes, miles of pine for- ests, a perfect golf course, tennis 1 Carat,.$145.00 Thia one carat diamond is of fne 5 brlliancy and perfectly cut. Mounted Ouf position to name in Tilaoy avi viel 4K. ‘solid gold setting. prices on diamonds that Onder this damond, uke it to a8 should surely interest St Tor le then” $200,00 send any present or prospec- ck and yout money will bereturned tive diamond purchaser: at once without « quibble, © $145.00 ‘Our price direct to you .. =a MaWOND MINES Men's Green Gold Diamond Ring $295.00 Fine blve. white xt dia Cerivenhoiied & subd (laieas Fine a’ hendocnely hand-Sarved Yo Grecian design. Summer reservations now booking | Henry Ladies’ All Platinum Diamond Ring Sintegn pecectly et blue-white dia mond, set on large cen- ter tone is of fine, blue-white coloe The ring is solid platinuen, exquisitely nd carved and pierced. Our pice direct to you - $530.00 f Lincolr Look difficu of civ than I Rec nings you fi far-re Lelan of tho —the —the —clos ured i sandtl —the Johan part ¢ sible : 10 Bi DIAMONDS This book is beautifully il- Tells hov", to judge, select and buy dia- monda. Tells how they mine, cut and market diamonds, This book gives weights, sizes and prices of a Million Dollars Worth of Dias monds. A copy will be mailed to you FREE on receipt of your came and address. Jason Weiler & Sons 371 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Diamond Importers since 1876 ies: London, Amsterdam and Paris Recistry What been Well, here's a chance in a house where the couple have been married ten years. Domestic: That's too long. and quiet.—<n s 1 likes peace Foreign A Clear Your Skin Yourskin can be quickly cleared of Pimples, Blackheads, Acne iptions on the face or Enlarged Pores, Oily or Shiny Skin by a new treatment ““66Clear-Tone’”’ At the Movie Wire (dabbing her eyes): Just look at those big tears on the poor girl's face, dear! Hvnpy: Fresh from the glycerine bottle. Wire (in @ fierce whisper): Always tak- ing the little joy out of my life, brute that you are!—Buffalo Express. Facial Blemishes, write for king? telling how I cured myself after being afMicted for 16 years and to send you a bottle of “Clear-Tone’ on tri E'S. GIVENS, 226 Chemical Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. ee Some idea of the heat experienced in this country last week can be deduced from the fact that several bricklayers were distinctly seen to wipe their brows in their own time. —Punch,