Life, 1920-11-18 · page 39 of 44
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with a small satirical column as filler content. The main feature is a large **W.L. Douglas Shoes advertisement**, emphasizing direct factory-to-consumer sales that guarantee "the lowest possible cost" by eliminating middleman profits. The ad uses patriotic imagery and testimonials to market shoes as an honest value. The small column, "Humors of 'Verboten' in Korea," by Elsie McCormick, offers light satire about Japanese and Korean bureaucratic restrictions on foreigners during the post-WWI era. The anecdotes—a missionary crossing a forbidden bridge, another ordering shoes by drawing her foot on paper (mistaken for a "port fortification plan")—mock both rigid foreign regulations and the absurd miscommunications that result. The humor relies on readers' familiarity with post-war Asia's strict occupation-era rules and the era's missionary travel narratives.
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