Life, 1923-08-30 · page 33 of 36
Life — August 30, 1923 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and miscellaneous content** rather than political cartoons. The main elements are: 1. **Life's Fresh Air Fund** - A charity fundraising list showing donations for sending poor city children to the countryside for health and recreation. 2. **"The Education of a Club Woman's Husband"** - A humorous anecdote about a socially awkward moment. A husband invites a friend to view his wife's art purchase, then describes how his visiting father embarrassed them at a dinner with an artist by loudly expressing that he preferred dipping bread in his coffee at the table. The husband had to buy one of the artist's paintings to smooth things over—satirizing how modern art collecting is driven by social obligation rather than genuine appreciation, and poking fun at the clash between rural informality and urban artistic pretension. 3. **Product advertisements** for dandruff remedy and the Biltmore Hotel's nightclub. The satire gently mocks both pretentious art culture and provincial manners.
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LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund Live's Frest Arr Funp has been in for the past thirt it has expended $. cn a fortnight in the r city children, Contributions, which are acknowledged in Lire should be made payable ‘Aux Fenp, and sent to 5 New rk City. Previously acknowledged........$21,114.03 John Matthews Bailey, “Fi 10.00 \. E. Harrison, Herington, Kan. 10.00 in memory of his \. 30.00 Sessa 5.00 mory of M Rochester, N. Y . 5 5.00 rd B. Hontswick, ‘ 5.00 10.00 10.00 Philadelphia. .... 10.00 Ireland, Cleveland 10.00 Judson, Bristol, Conn. .... 5.00 Florence S. Griffing, Comn.. Spacerua 10.00 Kk. Foltz, Washington, D.C. 10.00 Jessie Sherwood Smith, Berkel cl : 10.00 Jack Compton, Clendenin, W. V 10.00 Mrs Robert "Spencer, Kingham, Mas . 5.00 us, Brooklyn, N. a 5.00 Ryan, Ta a 5 10.00 ‘ 7 10.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 . 10.00 Dor: & Corbett, Boston, cue 10.00 Mrs (. L. Bartow, Englewood, Ne div : aasiee 10.00 Pie 5.00 Roch- 10.00 “Wichit a s” 10.00 H. Morgan, Alliance, O. 23.00 on, Worcester, Ma 10.00 Memory of ii Winnetka, TI sesssses 1000 Stanford University, Cal... 10.00 Lucia M. Stone, Hel Mont 5.00 John B. Phillips, N ity 10.00 i » Pine Orchard, Conn 30.00 mory of D. A. D., Aug. ie 5.00 ew Bruns: J 10.0¢ Little M's, Bay Hes Me ke. N.Y Penn, An Easy Way to Remove Dandruff If sou want plenty of thick, beautiful, gloss), silky hair, do by all means get nid of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don’t. The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. To!do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon af night before retiring ; use enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in gently with the! finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandrati will be gone, and three or four more applications should completely re- sign and trace of it. Il find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and feel « hundred times better. You can get Liquil Arvon at any drug store. A four- ounce bottle is usually all that is needed. The R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohio The Education of a Club Woman’s Husband “I want you to stop at my house and see the painting I bought last week. I want you to tell me if you see the same thing I do when I look at it. I would ask my wife only she’s not speaking to me. “You see, her club had an art ex- hibition and some of the artists came along with the pictures. My wife said that was the only way they could pre- vent merely commercial buyers from purchasing their work. As he was on the committee we invited one of the artists to dinner and as luck would have it that happened to be the day my old father dropped in from Posey County. All through dinner I could see he was nervous and unhappy and when it was over he didn’t seem to want to leave the table. But my wife remarked that we'd have our coffee in the library and that cheered Dad up. “Everything was going all right when Dad whispered to me—that is, he thought he was. whispering—that he liked to have his coffee at the table so he could dip his bread in it. In spite of the chord my wife struck on the ‘piano the artist heard him and I had to buy one of his pictures to square myself with her.” McC. H. WANTED These back numbers of LIFE: Nos. 1874, 1878, 1898. For one copy of each in good condition 50 cents apiece will be paid by LIFE PUBLISHING CO. 598 MADISON AVENUE Dancing Continuous music, Bub- bling gayety: sparkling ife. Cool, refreshing—on the 19th oor of The BILTMORE | NEW YORK comicbooks.com