Life, 1921-04-21 · page 32 of 36
Life — April 21, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and filler content**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a W.L. Douglas Shoes advertisement emphasizing factory-direct pricing and quality control. The Douglas brand signature appears as a stamped guarantee on shoe bottoms—a selling point the ad repeats. The page includes minor **humorous anecdotes** typical of Life's lighter content: observations about wives seeking holes in socks, working-class banter about minimum wages, and jokes about unmarried women versus men. These are gentle social humor rather than pointed satire. A portrait of **Theodore Roosevelt** appears without accompanying text or commentary, likely a standard editorial feature rather than cartoon analysis. The only substantive non-advertising content is Thomas L. Masson's book advertisement promoting a humorous collection. Overall, this represents a typical early-20th-century magazine layout mixing commerce with light domestic humor and celebrity imagery, rather than serious political cartooning.
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W. L. DOUGLAS Fenuced °93.0O SHOES “Yo Sperm Shee $10.00 || Sessial Shoes $6.00 FOR MEN AND WOMEN THE STAMPED PRICE IS W. L. DOUGLAS PERSONAL GUARANTEE THAT THE SHOES ARE ALWAYS WORTH THE PRICE PAID FOR oneEM YOU CAN ALWAYS \VE MONEY BY WEARING W LDOUGLAS SHOES FROM FACT( They are the best known shoes in the world. Sold in 107 W.L.Douglas stores, direct from the factory to you at only one profit, which guarantees to you the best shoes that can be produced, at the lowest possible cost. W.L.Douglas name and the retail price are stamped on the bottom of all shoes before they leave the factory, which is your protection against unreasonable profits. W. L. Douglas shoes are absolutely the best shoe values for the money in country. They aremadeof the bestand finest leathers that money can buy. | They combine quality, style, work- i lities equal They are the | centers of America. The prices are the same everywhere; they cost no more in San Francisco thanthey do in NewYork. W. L. Douglas shoes are made by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest deter- mination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. CAUTION betas ’atoes the name and price is plainly stamped on the sole. Becareful to see that L. Douglas shoes are for sale by over 3606 aboe deatere besides cus own cares, er cannot supply pay mal 3 patie oh, Gee ee to order shoes by mail, postage If your local take no other the factor it has not been : Ye or mutilated. MoS yj las Shoe Co., 147'Spark Ot) Brockton, Mass, > 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief INDIGESTION BELE A Strange Search—A lady was sitting in the garden with the family stocking basket beside her, and was examining the holes in her little boy’s socks, when the old gardener came by with his wheelbarrow. “ What beats me,” he remarked, “is you ladies. Always lookin’ for what you don’t want to find! "—London Morning Post. The Retainer— First Laboring Man: Wot’s a minimum wage, Albert? Second Ditto: Wot yer gets for goin’ to yer work. If yer wants ter make a bit more yer does a bit o’ work for it.—Punch. Wau Wty Not 2 by Thomas L. Masson To get up a wiser and a merrier man from your reading, kuy this genial new book by Lire’s canny editor. -A real stimulus to the joy and gravity of living. Price $1.50. Get it at any bookseller’s. Published (3) by Doubleday, Page & Co. The Courtesy Title—Charles: wish they were men. Herbert: Why do you say that? “Because spinsters like to call them- selves ‘bachelor girls,’ but no bachelor ever calls himself an ‘old-maid man.’” —Answers (London). Girls Unseen, Unheard—Teacher: What does a well-bred child do when a visitor calls to see her mother? Child: Me—TI go play in the street. —Sans-Géne (Paris). 584 April AIN-PEARLS on the window pane! Violets in the vale again! Lusty robins in the rain! April! here again! Fickle weather winds the vane; Trembling clouds break o'er the grain Sifting sunshine through the rain: April! here again! Green grass nodding on the plain, Snowdrops languid in the lane, All of winter on the wane: April! here again! J.D. Home Thoughts —“ What docs your husband do when he’s at home?” “He thinks of new ways to make money.” And what do you do?” Oh, I think of new ways to spend it” —Hojas Selectas (Barcelona), “At Home” —Caller: Visitors, don't you think, always provide pleasure? Hostess (brightening): Yes—if not when they come, at least when they go. —Le Rire (Paris). THEODORE ROOSEVELT foresaw, when a youth, the great necessity for conserving and caring for his already weakened vision Had he not early in life placed the care of his eyes in the hands of specialists he never could have at- tained the national success that came to him later. Vision efficiency and personal suc- cess go hand in hand and the surest way to have good eyesight is to care for it while you have it. Visit your Optometrist periodically and let him sce that your eyes are in good con- dition. If you do not know an The Emblem of Optometrist — write Superior Optical to this office and we Service. Look for will tell you several it where you ob near you. Associated Optometrists of America, Inc. we ons Oties 290)¢ Bene comicbooks.com