Life, 1923-08-16 · page 3 of 36
Life — August 16, 1923 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and advice columns** rather than political satire. The content includes: **Advertisements:** - Milo Violets cigars (top right) - The Homestead resort in Virginia Hot Springs (left) - Liquid Arvon dandruff treatment (bottom right) **Satirical Content:** The left column titled "On the Modern Young Man" presents brief character sketches mocking contemporary masculine stereotypes—his superficiality about women, affected humor, and various pretensions. This appears to be gentle social satire about 1920s-era male behavior rather than political commentary. **Advice Column:** "Watching Credit in Jonesville" discusses household economics and marital dynamics regarding domestic spending. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and gender roles rather than addressing specific political events or figures.
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On the Modern Young Man His Chivalry “Way should I give my seat to her? She’s not even pretty.” His Sense of Humor “Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Wallop him again. Ha! Ha! Ha!” His Business Ability “Send out two hundred copies of that new circular letter, and make four drafts of this bulletin, Miss Gordon. I’m going out to lunch now, and will be back about four o'clock.” His Musical Appreciation “Yes, I love the opera. I love to sit in the Vanderricks’ box.” His Philosophy “It's a great life if you don’t weaken.” His Love Making “You're the only girl I ever cared for. Can you reach the pepper?” His Worldly Knowledge “I know a place where you can get it right over the bar.” His Cynicism \fter all, what difference does it His Superiority Complex “Waiter, bring me the best cigar you have.” His Inferiority Complex “I know the Joneses.” TOBACC Watching Credit in Jonesville “I'm writing in to the house to get an extension of credit for the owner of the New Bon Marché,” said the old traveling salesman. “He told me he was putting in a new breakfast room and sleeping porch at his house and needed all his cash. I remember when his father’s breakfast room was the kitchen and the only sleeping 7 baa RSuKe SOUL natGe: he ever did on a porch was in a rock- TER TO BE MY WIFE....” ing chair on a Sunday afternoon. He “YES—WHAT ABOUT IT?” took off his coat when he went to his Gane no EeReGeRL WeieeueE meals, but his son has learned to ap- SHE SAID YES OR NO.” pear unconcerned in a dinner jacket. —Sans Géne (Paris). “Tt strikes me that the modern - tK/. breakfast room is a kind of memor- An Easy Way to ial. It commemorates a bygone in- Remove Dandruff stitution, The old man used to have If you want plenty of thick, beautiful, ham and eggs and buckwheat cakes | S%%; ig or’ ie will starve: your hair and three cups of coffee for his | and ruin it if you don’t. breakfast. His son’s wife doesn’t put The best way to get rid of dandruff is to anything on the breakfast table but a | dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little percolator and a pot of jonquils. Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use “T told the lad I'd ask the house enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in : gently with the finger tips. to go easy with him, if he would not By morning, most, if not all, of your let his wife go in for antiques until | dandruff will be gone, and three or four his commercial rating was at least pape Soplieations. sioald. complete re> A. I've noticed that when a woman You will find, too, that all itching of the begins to get hooked on hooked rugs | scalp will stop, and your hair will look and you can expect to find her husband’s feel a hundred times better. You can get McC. H. Tho R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohio, comicbooks.com