Life, 1920-09-09 · page 36 of 44
Life — September 9, 1920 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a romantic poem by Marc Connelly titled "A Little Later," depicting mutual romantic uncertainty between a couple—he doubts his own faithfulness despite loving her; she doubts herself despite trusting him. The humor lies in their mirrored insecurities about their own constancy. The main illustrated narrative below concerns sun protection for complexions. A woman named Marian has been outdoors all day (bathing, tennis, golf, sailing, riding) without apparent sunburn, while her friend Richard ("Dickey") is visibly sunburned after one golf game. Marian reveals her secret: Hinds Honey and Almond Cream prevents sun damage to skin. The page is primarily **advertising-focused**, featuring multiple beauty product promotions (Hinds Cream, Lablache Face Powder, Piso's cough medicine) alongside the poem and narrative. The "sun-proof complexions" concept reflects early 20th-century beauty standards valuing pale, unblemished skin—the opposite of modern tanning preferences.
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"M very sure of her; It is myself I doubt. I don’t mean to infer That I'm a gadabout. I love her very much; But when another maid Appears she seems to touch My heart, and I'm afraid. Some day it may occur When I'm not looking out. I'm very sure of her; It is myself I doubt. LIFE A Little Later She: I know that he is true; The one I doubt is 1. What is a girl to do When others make her sigh? What if another man My dreaming heart should wake? I don't believe I can Have made a great mistake. Is youth an avenue And love a passer-by? I know that he is true; The one I doubt is I. Mare Connelly. DO SUN-PROOF (O:MPLEXIONS “¥UST HAPPEN, NATURALLY? Aina \O there, Marian! Whither away at this late hour?” Delightful coolness is the first tensetion when applying Hinds Honey and Almond Cream. Then follows a wonderful heal- ing and softening process— tmarkable reGning of the skins texture and a whitening of its surface, May we send you “A Week End Package?" Hinds Honey and Almond Cream, both Cold and Disappearing Cream, rm, Face Powder and Trial Cake Soap. Enclose 50c, not foreign stamps or foreign money, please. Samples of Cream Sc each. linds Honey and mond ream YA “*Lo there yourself Richard!" called the slender gitl, who had just come out on the practically deserted veranda. “Is our Marian going out again? Bathing and tennis all morning, golf and sailing all afternoon, and now riding — How do you do it? Look at me, sunburned to torture after one Tite game of golf. Haven't you got some soothing secret ?” “Of course I have, Dickey—My Heaven, if it weren't for Hinds Honey and Almond Cream I'd be a complete wreck myself—just rub some on the sunburn. Use it before you go out the next timeand you'll never know the sunisshining. Te isn’t a beauty lotion, you know—so you needn’t be afraid of losing your foolish masculine dignity — it simply restores the natural, moist, soft condition of the skin that the sun takes out. I use it by the quart, almost.” “H-m-m-m—Sounds alright. Got some on now?” “Of course — lots of it. 1 never think of going out without “Well—I'm going to get Sis to raid your dressing table, that’scertain. The next time you see me I shall be steeped in comfort and Hinds Cream. A. S, HINDS, 208 West Street Portland, Maine ABLAC Face Powoer’: Ask her with the adorable magic charms away the tel 7 and leaves her fair face so free from blem- ish. She will tell you Lablache—a word you so often hear among discerning women. Refuse Substitutes Fi Perfumers, Dept. 1048 lngvten St, Reston, Mass BIFPKINS, IN WEARING OLD CLOTHES, BE LIEVES IN CARRYING OUT THE ENSEMBLE COPY THIS SKETCH gnd let me eee what you can do with It; Man ing $30.00