Life, 1920-11-04 · page 57 of 60
Life — November 4, 1920 — page 57: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **advertisements and a brief satirical story**, not political cartoons. The main content is a humorous anecdote titled "Theory and Practice" about a man named Sanders who theorizes that a woman worth marrying is one who can endure an exhausting day of activities—riding, tennis, canoeing, dancing, and heavy eating—without appearing tired or complaining. Sanders puts this theory into practice, but remains unmarried at fifty. The satire targets **turn-of-the-century gender attitudes**: it mocks both Sanders's impossibly demanding standards for women and the underlying assumption that a woman's value depends on her stamina and appearance. The joke's punchline—that his unrealistic expectations left him perpetually single—suggests the author finds his standards absurd. The surrounding content is period advertising (dental powder, shaving cream, suspenders), typical of Life magazine's commercial pages.
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&£ jor comfort Auseful holiday gift MADE AT SHIRLEY MASSACHUSETTS time our poet grasps his forehead in a feeble hand and lets agony hold full sway. We remember doing this on festal occa- sions in early school days, only then it was known as “breaking down.” When an English lecturer does it, you sit en- tranced and call it temperament. If the gentleman possesses a title, he can’t be too temperamental to suit the American palate. One ravished lady of our acquaintance, having rented two boxes overhanging the stage from which a member of the royally licensed group was recently allowing him- self to be viewed, exclaimed, as he re- tired, upon what a perfectly charming lecture it had been. To our feeble and somewhat shamefaced objection that a good deal of the talk had been lost to us, she said, trembling with enthusiasm, “Oh, I didn't Aear it at all, but isn’t he su- perb?” Possibly he was. By some strange whim we failed to respond to his peculiar habit of pouring the contents of the lec- turer’s water pitcher over his head and mopping his brow freely. . . . Head soaking or agonized muttering, it matters not, so it be British; Americans devour it. A’ epigram is a platitude with a new coat of paint. ‘LIFE. , Keeps Dental Plates Firm If your false teeth troubles are annoying, consult your dentist; but tobeinstantly free from a loose dental plate, use Dr. Wernet’s Powder. Permits suffi- cient adhesion to hold plate Secure, You eat, talk, laugh, Sneeze without the plate com- ing loose. Mildly antiseptic, Sweetens the breath. At drug or de- partment stores, Wernet Dental Mig. Co. 114 Beekman St., New York City. R Wwe 60¢c and $1.00 . Power FOR FALSE TEETH It's all in the lather! Viet say so, too, when you see in the mirror the reflection of your face smiling from out a great billowy cloud of rich and creamy lather. Men whouse Williams’—and know its thick, softening, velvety lather which won't dry on the face—declare that between it and other shaving creams there is a subtle difference which they can only express by the phrase, “complete shave-satisfaction.”” 849 Williams c:% Your choice of four forms Shaving Cream Holder-Top Shaving Stick Shaving Liquid Shaviog Powder Send 20c in stamps for trial sizes of all four forms, then decide which you pre- fer. Or send 6c in stumps for any one. THE J. B, WILLIAMS COMPANY Dept. A., Glastonbury, Conn. THEE. WILLIAMS COMPANY MAKERS ALSO OF MATINEE VIOLETS JERSEY CREAM AND OTHER TONET SOAPS, TALC POWDIR,DENTAL CRLAM ETC. GANDERS had a theory about women. “Tf,” he said, “you spend a day with a girl—go riding with her in the morning, add a game of tennis before lunch, see that she eats heartily; then in the after- noon take her canoeing in the wind and the sun, play some more tennis, and at night order for her a man’s sized din- ner, dance until midnight, or take her rid- ing on the roller-coaster at Coney Island and have a hearty supper of some sort, Theory and Practice and if she still looks as fresh and is as full of life and spirits as when you met her in the morning, and does not com- plain of being tired, nor threaten to faint, there’s a woman it would be wise to marry, Her beauty will not fade, and she will be young at forty.” Sanders put his theory into practice. He is now fifty, and still unmarried. C. G. comicbooks.com