Life, 1920-08-19 · page 36 of 40
Life — August 19, 1920 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **mostly advertising** with one cartoon. The dominant content is a **Canthrox Shampoo ad** promising to remove dandruff and add shine, plus a **Forhan's For The Gums** dental product advertisement warning about pyorrhea (gum disease). The single cartoon depicts two uniformed **military sergeants** in conversation. One reports his club's missing "Mike," and the other responds that the kids were using it as a baseball bat and "forgot to mold the grain up." The joke is a **wartime reference**—"Mike" likely refers to a military training device or ordnance (possibly a Mills grenade, nicknamed a "pineapple"), and the humor comes from the absurdity of children casually repurposing military equipment as sports equipment during wartime. "Our Own Intimate Column" introduces a new reader-submission section for LIFE magazine. The quoted verse appears to be from **Rudyard Kipling's "Gunga Din"**—a colonial-era poem about an Indian water-carrier.
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Our Own Intimate Column (LIFE aims to foster a community of camaraderie among its Hence this new department, ht is open to every reader of LIFE—whether he paid for his copy of the m he picked it up in the The Intimate Column se: nal drying ground whe given an opportunity to air his his grievances. Have you a grievances about anything? Send them in, and, if they are sufficiently unintelli. gent, we may find space for them.) R LIFE: Can you or any of your readers enlighten me as to the iden- ‘AKE it on your trip this summer; it is indispensable to the com- fort of your scalp and the beauty of your hair. tity of the following lines of verse which have been running through my head for ever so long: H “Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the living Gawd that made you, SHAMPOO Nourse 9, better man than I am, Gunga Its use makes and keeps the hair attractive, develops the life, luster and As I remember, the words were set to natural wave and gives a clean, luxuriant appearance. Canthrox has been for years the favorite of those who want to bring out — all the beauty of their hair, because it so rapidly softens and entirely A dangerous warning removes every particle of dandruff, excess oil and dirt, — bi 5 | es eeding gums at the same time giving such a massive fluffiness to the —— Free Trial Offer hair that it appears much heavier than it really is, while each strand has silky bright softness and the scalp is left To show the merits of Canthrox pliant and comfortable. and to prove that it is in all ways, ‘a mot satisfactory hair wash, we nd one perfect shampoo free 12 For Sale at all Drug Stores a ress upon rec f two + so —watch out for pilosa Canthrox costs about three cents a shampoo. No good hair wash costs less. Pyorrhea. A few minutes only are required for its use, You simply moisten the head “This dooine be aie’ " which affcu with Canthrox and rinse it thoroughly, after which the hair dries quickly. BY cums wchichaficufag forty, not only deszays 4 the teeth, but of H. S. PETERSON & CO., Dept. 157, 214 W. Kinzie St., Chicago, Ill. P wrecks the healh. InPyoerhes. eget become spongy. Oe recede; the web do cay, loosen and fal out —or mut bee vaciedtonddesrae of the wfecung Pyar thea germs which breed in pochesaboa them. These germs lower the body's wab ity and cause many diseases. You can keep Pyor rh ‘and gum napeccn, and use Forhan'sFoe the Gums Forhan’s For, de Gums prevents Pra thea — of checks & denafnices cannot ths. Forhans i cial vearme 35e and 6c nhes L in U.S. and Canad Alfin Sarno be roanayraa . , New York Sergeant: Your civs's Missinc, Mike!” wuat’s BEcoME or-31T? vurhan'e, Ltd “(TIE KIDS WAS USING IT FOR A BASEBALL BAT AND FORGOT TO MOLD THE GRAIN UP.” ipntreal comicbooks.