Life, 1923-10-04 · page 42 of 44
Life — October 4, 1923 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **advertisements and light social commentary** rather than political cartoons. The main satirical piece is "The Education of a Club Woman's Husband," which humorously critiques women's club culture of the era. A husband describes how his wife's attendance at the Progressive Club's "Household Arts Section" for nutrition courses ironically leaves him without dinner—forcing him to eat out alone while she learns about beneficial meal planning. The joke satirizes the disconnect between women's new educational pursuits and traditional domestic duties, suggesting these clubs, while progressive, sometimes neglect the home they supposedly educate women to manage. The other content is advertising: Redfern corsets/wrap-arounds (promising to flatten the body for fashionable silhouettes), Forhan's toothpaste (warning of gum disease/pyorrhea), and a hair removal product. "The Eternal Negative" is a short poem mocking prohibition advocates and those opposing modern fashions (bobbed hair, sleeveless gowns). The page reflects 1920s anxieties about women's changing roles and modern consumer culture.
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T eliminates the difference between the real and the ideal, between your own figure and the silhouette of fash- ion, but its presence is unsuspected. Style, N-113, illustrated, is for average- type figures. Two panels of unseamed silk elastic, an elastic waistline-top, a back of unpar- alleled flatness, and raised hose support- ers are details of its deft design. Send for booklet illustrating Redfern Wrap-arounds for stout-type, slender- type, average-type and curved-type figures, Cureest J Wrap-arounds are made only by the Warner Brothers Co., 347 Madison Ave., New York; 367 lams St., Chicago; 28 Geary St., San Francisco. The Eternal Negative Ow sundry sides you hear them roar For wine no more and no more war— For no more that and no more this, No more bobbed hair, no more bliss, No more rai Ss, no more nuts, No more fashions based on Tut's. Still croaks the “Never—never—nevermore !” raven as before, Why dress— Put double accent on the “yes”? Why not support a League or two, And, like old Britling, see it through? Why not be game, and take a chance At backing sleeveless gowns—or France? The negative deserves its ease. Yes! give us some bananas, please! M. H.C. not let something—wine or *ORVRE The Education of a Club Woman’s Husband “IF you'll stop with me a minute in this cafeteria I’ll drive you home. We have no cook this week and as this happens to be the day my wife attends the Household Arts Section of the Progressive Club I want to eat something so that when she rushes home a half-hour late I can tell her truthfully I am not hungry. “The Progressive Club is specializ- ing in nutrition this season and the courses are so beneficial that the members can hardly pay any atten- tion to getting meals. When my wife first joined I used to play I was diet- ing on the days when I got no dinner. The first winter I took off thirty-eight pounds and had to spend nearly six hundred dollars for new clothes. My doctor cornered me and told me it wasn’t safe to lose weight so fast, so now, when we are out of help, I just close my office an hour early on club days and get a quiet little supper somewhere. Then I’m ready to go home and implore my wife not to get dinner.” McC. H. Watch your gums — bleedinga sign of trouble EDICAL science knows how serious is the sign of bleeding gums. For it knows that tender and bleeding gums are the forerun- ners of Pyorrhea, that dread disease which afflicts four out of five people over forty _ If the disease is unchecked, the gum- line recedes, the teeth decay, loosen and fall out, or must be extracted to rid the system of the Pyorthea poisons generated at their base — poisons which seep into the system and wreck the health. Theycause rheu- ‘matism, nervous disorders, anaemia, and many other ills. 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