Life, 1920-07-22 · page 36 of 40
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a **Williams' Shaving Cream advertisement** featuring a testimonial from an unnamed man claiming the product "saved my face for 40 years." The ad uses the device of a quasi-endorsement, with the speaker praising Williams' superior lathering and performance compared to competitors. Below the main ad is a short humorous fiction piece titled "The Last Resort," depicting a desperate young man with ten cents who contemplates suicide at a dock, then realizes his only option is to find employment—a mild joke about economic hardship and the necessity of work. The right column contains book reviews from Life's literary section, covering titles about Lincoln, Mexican intervention, General William Booth, and etching techniques. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. It's a standard magazine layout mixing advertisements with editorial content typical of early 20th-century Life magazine.
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-LIFE The Latest Books “Saved my face (Continued from page 160) elected mayor—and proceeds to enforce fi 40 his the dry law. Four hundred well-laden or years pages are devoted to this and to his subsequent triumph in love and local politics. In Lincoln's Chair, by Ida M. Tarbell (The Macmillan Company.) A ten-thou- sand-word reminiscence of Lincoln given in 1896 by Billy Brown, druggist, of Springfield, Ilinois. Intervention in Mexico, by Samuel Guy Inman. (George H. Doran Company.) Argues against it, whether armed or diplomatic, and pleads for a really com- prehensive program of educational assist- ane : Life of General William Booth, the Founder of the Salvation Army, by Harold Begbie. (The Macmillan Com- pany.) These two volumes are less for those interested in the work than for those interested in the man, or capable of being interested by a full-length, life- size portrait casting heroic shadows. Mr. Begbie has got it all in—the boyhood of poverty, the quickening conscien the clear-burning zeal and the trium battle. He does not falter with the man’s limitations, nor does he fail to do justice to his lovableness. . Etchers and Etching, by Joseph Pen- De Vis half a century ago I learned to know ; nell, (The Macmillan Company.) The Williams’. Since that time he has daily saved / history of art is a plate on which Mr. my face with his rich and creamy lather. Pennell uses both acid and dry point. “ Williams’ virtues are more than skin deep. We don't see anyone concerned with Somehow he has an uncanny knack of at once get- ting down below the surface and gently smoothing things out at the root of the difficulty. He's easy to Holder-Top Shaving Stick work with because he doesn’t believe in splitting Shaving Liquid Shaving Powder hairs. He rises to the occasion instantly and never Send ace in stamps for trial sizes of all four falls flat on a job. fms ten dc mish Je pe OF “A lot of others have tried to get thick with me. ea mee © SDL ET ani But many years of shaving experience have taught Te LA Gbanebern Gene COMPLETE SET OF LIFE NICELY Bo AY ie i from the first volume to date, will be sold for $100. me that Williams’ is the cream of them all.” W. W. HALLOCK, 239 West 39th St., New York. Telepbore 1300 Williamst=: | THE J. WAUAMS COMPANY MAKERS ALSO OF MATINEE VIOLETS. JERSEY CREAM 'ANO OTHER TOILET SOAPS, TALC POWDER, DENTAL CREAM ETC. | | etched lines missing this book! Not since Whistler has there been such indignation, such heaped derision; but the heart be- neath is warm, and the knowledge behind the words very great. Your Choice of Four Forms Shaving Cream The Last Resort one of them, and they had ignored him . Meditating deeply upon the exhaustion HE young man stood upon the dock on of his resources and upon the financial Ftomelike~ and looked down gloomily into the crisis that had overcome him, his face S popes deep, black waters below. was the picture of despair. Then an idea but still in the He was desperate. He had exactly ten suddenly penetrated his brain, heart onthings cents in his pocket. His credit was com- The thought came to him that about the pletely exhausted. He owed his landlady only way out of his predicament was to three weeks’ board, and she had notified get a job and go to work. He turned and him that he must either pay up or depart. walked away, shaking his head in disgust. THE BILTMORE He could borrow no more money from So at last he has been forced to this final his friends. He had appealed to every _ extremity.