Life, 1922-05-11 · page 38 of 38
Life — May 11, 1922 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **advertisements and satirical poetry**, not political cartoons. The main literary content is a parody titled "The Rubaiyat of Amory Khayyam," credited to F. Scott Fitzgerald. It mockingly rewrites the classic Persian poem in Jazz Age vernacular, satirizing 1920s youth culture: references to hangovers, "sub-debs" (debutantes), gin-spiked drinks, and wealthy young people driving fancy cars like Stutz and Rolls-Royce. The humor targets wealthy, idle youth and Prohibition-era drinking. The "Further Evidence in Support of Barnum" section satirizes gullible consumers who believe advertisement claims—that salad-fork etiquette leads to success, that yeast cakes cure illness, or that self-help books solve business problems. It's skeptical commentary on advertising's manipulative power over the credulous public. The page otherwise contains period advertisements for asbestos products, travel services, and bridge instruction—notably, no warning labels about asbestos's dangers existed then.
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GAR _ASBESTOS P ROM the crude asbes- tos to the finished ma- terial, each process in the manufacture of GARCO asbestos products is under our direct control. Only in this way can strict stand- ards of excellence be main- tained. The rigid observ- ance of quality has given to GARCO products a rep- utation for dependable ser- vice. GARCO Asbestos Brake Lining is solidly woven, strong and sturdy, preferred by motorists who seek efficiency at the brakes. Ask for it! GENERAL ASBESTOS & RUBBER COMPANY Main Offices and Factories Charleston, S. C. Branches New York Chicago Pittsburgh Where to go—What to see. Costs—Suggested itineraries. Ask for free book, “American Traveler in Europe 1922” Oberammergau,The Passion Play Write, phone, or call AMERICAN EXPRESS Travel Department 65 Broadway, New York Standard Text Book on Bridge AUCTION METHODS a UP-TO-DATE By MILTON C, WORK BQ The International Authority Contains advice which will improve your game. Cloth; 822 pages; Price $2.00, Just Issued by Same Author AUCTION FOR TWO or THREE Best methot. f0%, Playing 2 oF snapaed! games. Cloth; pages; Price $1.50. On ‘Sale at Booksellers and Stationers THEJOHN C.WINSTON CO.,Philadelphia LIFE .- The Rubaiyat of Amory Khayyam As Translated by F. Scott Fitzgerald AKE! For the bun that scattered into flight Dead sober reason all the jazz-long night, Has gone, and left a hangover to strike The aching cortex with a sudden blight. Il Before the last sub-deb became pie-eyed Methought a voice within the grill room cried, “When all the orangeades are doped with gin, Why nods the drowsy officer outside?” XII A Vie Parisienne beneath the bough, A pocket-flask, some Lucky Strikes—or thou Beside me cuddling in the taxi-cab, Ah, taxi-cab were limousine enow. XLII Some for the heavy Wall Street deal, and some Sigh for the fat inheritance to come. Ah, take Dad’s Stutz and let the Rolls-Royce Go; It is the scion’s privilege to bum. H. W..H. Further Evidence in Support of Barnum S advertising which doesn’t bring results is speedily discontinued, we are convinced by what we find in the advertising pages of “popular” maga- zines that there are many people who believe: = That the one sure road to achieve- ment lies in the correct manipulation of salad forks. That keenness of mind and “that in- definable thing called Charm” can be attained through card playing. That a cake of yeast a day will bank- tupt all M. D.’s. That a comprehensive knowledge of ali that is worth while in literature may be had in fifteen minutes a day. That all business problems have been solved in a set of 24 books—send cou- pon to-day. That ten-thousand-dollar jobs await readers of “The Hard-boiled Sales- man.” That mahogany desks and push but- tons are awarded all who Are Not Business Cowards. FaTHER: Why do you leave the table? We are not through. Son: I can’t sit down so long. FatHer: You sit down, now, or I'll send you away from the table. Corns Lift Off with the Fingers Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a litte “Freezone” on an aching corn, instant that corn stops hurting, then shortly y lift it right off with fingers. Your drug. gist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove ever hard corn, soft corn, or corn betwees! toes, and calluses, without pain, soreness oh Cyreenbrier WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS West Virginia In the high Alleghanies Glorious in Spring and Summer for rest and sport. Golf—tennis—horseback__ riding Famous Waters and Baths Main Line C. & O. Just overnight from Eastern & Central Western Cities White Sulphur Spring, Inc. The Greenbrier The White 42 Furnished Cottages LINDA LEE INC A dramatic story of Society and the Movies by LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE $2.00 at any bookstore E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 SthAve,NJ: comicbooks.com