Life, 1920-12-02 · page 82 of 97
Life — December 2, 1920 — page 82: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with satirical humor typical of early 20th-century *Life* magazine. **The main advertisement** promotes Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen as a Christmas gift—positioned as suitable "for Men, Women and Children" with the tagline emphasizing it's "Easy to Buy / Easy to Send / A joy to Receive." **The satirical content** includes several brief jokes and observations: - "A Nice Point of Etiquette" discusses the social awkwardness of maintaining a smile after encountering an unattractive person—suggesting one should wear a mask to hide one's true facial reaction. - "As Old as You Look" mocks modern women's efforts to appear younger than their actual age through cosmetics or appearance. - A joke about a poet selling verse "for a song" (literal irony). - A quip about girls who "throw themselves" at men not making romantic "hits." The page also includes book and false-teeth powder advertisements. The humor reflects period anxieties about etiquette, aging, gender presentation, and commercialism.
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191 Broadway, New York School Street, Boston Men, Women and Children Easy to Buy Easy to Send A joy to Receive The world’s standard for quality, efficiency and durability THREE TYPES: Regular, Safety and Self. SUSAN is not like the women you know: how eat taining it would be if they were like SUSAN! LEE WILSON DODD'S BOOK OF SUSAN is on sale at all bookstores. $2.00. Read it. E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Sth Ave.,N. AS GLD AS YOU LOOK A Nice Point of Etiquette (Continued from page 1044) has killed your joy for the day—your glad smile faded at the sight. Under such cir- cumstances cutting it off suddenly is even worse—in the case of some large, irri- table persons it is positively dangerous to you, unless you are equally as large and as irritable yourself. I have mulled over this until I am almost ready to give it up. There is but one safe solution, so far as I can figure: To carry a mask, so that, just as the lady has passed you and can get no further benefit of your smirk or smile or sincere joy, as the case may possibly be, you may pull the mask down quickly and do as you darned (pardon me) please with your own face without looking idiotic to the public or taking chances on being offensive. Strickland Gillilan, IF we had our lives to live over again, the probabilities are we could make our mistakes much more easily. Father Time: 1 DON'T SEEM TO MAKE ay) IMPRESSIC.1 ON THE APPEARANCE OF THES! MODERiD JAMES, SHE MAY BE SIXTY, BCT SHE LOOKS SIXTEEN New but Valuable Import RS, GEOGRA: Henry, what are chief exports of Mexico? Pror, Geocka: Minerals, I believe. Mrs. G.: And its imports? Pror, G. (absent-mindedly) : Ransoms Ha! Ha! “GCRIBBLER worked three days ona bit of verse and then sold it fora song.” “Too bad!” “Oh, I don't know—it teas a song.” HE girl who throws herself at a maa doesn't always make a hit. __ Avoid False Teeth Discomfort Your false teeth troubles may be caused by a condition your dentist can correct—consult him. Until you visit your dentist get relief by asing Dr. Wernet’s Powder. Keeps dental plates |) from dropping and permits you to eat, laugh, and talk with ease. Mildly antiseptic and ‘Sweetens the breath. At drug or dept. stores 30c, 60c and $1.00 Wernet Dental Mig. Co. 114 Beekman Street, New York City. comicbooks.com