Life, 1922-12-07 · page 8 of 80
Life — December 7, 1922 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and humor content** rather than political satire. The main left advertisement promotes **California travel via the Santa Fe railroad** for winter vacations, emphasizing resort hotels, gardens, and good schools—targeting middle-class families. The center section titled **"Wanted: Co-Getters"** is satirical humor listing absurd "commissions" for young men, including visiting Rudyard Kipling, interviewing business figures, and collecting signatures from politicians like Ex-Senator Truman Newberry and President Leonor Loree. The joke is that these are ridiculous, impossible tasks presented as employment opportunities. The right side features the **Bellevue-Stratford hotel advertisement** and an **Aspirin advertisement** for Bayer brand, emphasizing it's "genuine" and widely trusted. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and advertising-driven magazine content.
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ym this winter and every travel comfort for 1U_CAN motor every day over ) perfect highways—by the sea or along thebaseof green-cladmoun- tains, There are big resort hotels and cozy inns—or you can rent a bungalow and enjoy your own rose garden, Golf links galore and excellent schools for your children, The Santa Fe operates four daily trains to California. One of them —the California Limited—is ex- clusively for first-class travel. Fred Harvey serves all the meals “all the way.” Spick-and-span new steel equi ment on the California Limited. Thereare Pullinans via Grand Canyon National Park to Los Angeles, on both the California Limited and the Missionary. We willazcange’ pour: Pullman resecyetions eo you can stay at the Canyon any number of Gaya and’ be assured of space when tesum- ing journey. Why not visit Southern Arizona going or returning? It is delighttul at Castle Hot Springs, Ingleside and Chandler. * OE TE Ee Wanted: Go-Getters Several bright, self-assured young men, who are unafraid, and un- ashamed, to execute the following commissions : A young man to go to England, proceed to the country home of Rud- yard Kipling in Sussex, ask Mr. Kipling for an interview for the New York World, and—get it! An active, smooth-talking man, to go to Cleveland, Ohio, show and explain $o Mr. Newton D. Baker the advantages of owning a new Encyclopedia Britannica, solicit Mr. Baker for an order, and—get it! A smart, breezy young man, to call on Ex-Senator Truman New- berry, ask him to purchase a new 1923 Ford touring car, equipped with all attachments, show Mr. Newberry the dotted line for his signature, and —get it! A strong, well-built, fearless man, to call on Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, at his office in Washington, with a petition asking Congress to legalize beers and wines, ask Mr. Wheeler for his signature, and—get it! A bold, dauntless youth, sprinter preferred, to call on Rabbi Wise of New York, with an application blank of the Ku Klux Klan, explain to the reverend gentleman that twenty-five dollars cash must accom- pany the application, and—collect it! A smooth, polite gentleman, with a well-oiled tongue, to call on Sen. Reed of Missouri, at his office in the Capital, ask the Senator for a liberal donation for the Anti-Sa- loon League, and—get it! A sturdy, solid, large-sized he- man, with rough ways and rougher voice to call on President Leonor Loree of the D. & H. Railroad, de- mand a liberal contribution to the fund of striking railroad shopmen, and—get it! J. F, The Recipe Take a batch of tinsel, Discarded in the shed; Add a mess of sea shell And several scraps of lead. Don’t overlook the attic, And rummage in your trunk; Seize knitted wear and batik And odds and ends of junk. Then mix ’em till you have enough And spread them carefully, And you will find it’s just the stuff To trim a Christmas tree. L. M. Believes— —in adopting everything new an¢ practical that makes for hotel com fort. —in maintaining, in addition to it high grade hotel service: Turkish Baths ‘Tea Shop Beauty Salen Domestic and Barber Shop Foreign Travel Radio Service Service —in leaving such an admirable impression that another visit to Philadelphia means coming to The Bellevue-Stratford Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. L. M. Boomer, President James P. A. O°Coner, Managing Director . The Waldorf-cAstoria in New York, and The New Willard in Washington, D. C., under same management. Aspirin Say “Bayer” and Insist! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not get- ting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twenty-two years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Toothache Lumbago Earache Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” only. Each unbroken package contains proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. comicbooks.com