Life, 1924-02-28 · page 34 of 36
Life — February 28, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or editorial content. It contains several product advertisements typical of 1920s magazines: **Key advertisements:** - German cameras (Henderson Brothers importers) - Bellans antacid for indigestion - Silver fox raising opportunity - Bayer Aspirin (with warning against counterfeits) - Horlick's Malted Milk - Glover's products **Notable context:** The Bayer Aspirin ad is historically significant—it warns "Beware of Imitations!" because Bayer's aspirin trademark had recently become genericized in the U.S. (post-WWI), allowing competitors to use the name. **Mrs. Pep's Diary** (continuing from page 12) is a serialized column discussing social observations—a dinner party, discussion of narcotics use, and commentary on women's undergarments. It reflects early 1920s attitudes and concerns. The page reflects nothing particularly satirical; it's a straightforward magazine layout mixing serialized fiction with period product advertisements.
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LIFE NCE yo e OF 54¢p GERMAN CAMERAS POSTPAID ‘ras with lenses, offered for less than half their actual valve. her plates or fil Special ground glass, showing full size image for focusing. Shutter speeds from 1/25 to 1/100 of a second. Vertical and horizontal offsets. Pictures have bee made showing wonderful detail, even un unfavorable light conditions. Weight, 32 ounces. Instructions included. We will ship promptly by Parcel Post, insured, complete with EASTMAN 12-¢x- posure film-pack and three plate holders, upon receipt of check or money order covering purchase price, under positive guarantee of full cash ‘refund for any cameras returned ORDER YOUR CAMERA TODAY HENDERSON BROTHERS IMPORTERS 93 Federal Street Boston, Mass. may be used ee 6 Beitans >| Hot water Sure Relief | LANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ AND 75¢ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE BIG MONEY IN RAISING SILVER FOX We duy all youralse. Prostsup bave been made ina F. Write for free Duffus Silver Fox Co, 38-K W. 34th St. N.Y. Mrs. Pep's Diary (Continued from page 12) him, and read me that the new maga- directed at The Forgotten normal, educated, well-dis enlightened citizen minority.” But I Muirheads to dine zine was Man—"the posed, unfrenzied of the middle naught The turtle green peas, new potatoes, fine Camembert, us ever I ate said with mush- salad as good a meal And I did as in so many soup. cutlet with in my life mark in this marriage, others, how one partner outdistances the and talents, nor can 1 perceive what Tom Muirhead beheld in Lizette to attract him. He meant for her, I said te A great many women same way about him, somewhat tartly other in charm was never Samuel, when they had g seem to feel the he responc Awake with and off Loomis to a betimes, Lydia lecture ha February 23rd a man_ spoke |, where tem great on the nuances of perament and personality, as interest And in one part of his discourse he did men tion casually ing a subject as ever I listened to. that the use of narcotics alent that none of us could he without a few is so pre friends who were addicts. — Whereat c ged looks whispered “Enid Blan nthe instant, though neither of us had thought of it or dis- cussed it before. It artly, why she planted her bulbs upside down, Many of my acquaintance were in the dience, ar I secret Lyd. and I ex and same explains, do trust that none attribute any of my idiosyncrasies Thence to look at erie, struck by the violence in color of some of it. Lord! to think that the conservative females underthings, a pink ribbon run through a to such a cause... most now wear orange when in my own memory camisole amounted almost to a badge B. L. of shame. Books Received ouis Stev Henry (Harper) Jour (Harper). mies: The L Brown) Yussuf Khon (Crowell) Jobn Night, by The B. Sports and Games, by 1p (Crowell) abaster Bor, by James Lane (Harper) The Happ Heller Streets Walter Allen Isles, by Basil King (Harper) ican Drama, by Arthur Hobson (Harper) ity's Story of » Stewart (Do Radica, AO BW Seeds, by Mankind Winged millan) 1 King’s Daughter, The Cail of the Rod, ni & Liveright) by John Masefield (Mac by Edouard Estaunié bony, mew veeg Aspirin | Beware of Imitations! (B A BAYER Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on ge or on tablets you are not get- the genuine Bayer Aspirin. proved by millions and prescribed by ians over twenty-three years for Colds Headache othache Lumba: Neuritis Rheun} a Pain, ayer Tablets of only h unbroken packa proven directi Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents Drug- gists also. sell bottles of 24 and 100 Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of | Salicylicacid. Relief “Cou Use PISO'S — this prescription quickly relieves children and adults. A pleasant syrup. No opiates. 35% and 606 sizes sold everywhere Pain Accept spirin” contains They all say GLOVER’S does the Business Wherever you go you hear men and w There's nothing like Glover's for Dan falling hair. It surely does the business For 36 years Glover's bas been making friends tf your hair ts | Mange Medicine at any good drug store and use exactly aa directed. Write for Free Booklet “Treatise oo the Hair and Scalp,” by ag, plover origins of the Glover Atedicines Made only by the H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Ine. (Dept. A-2) 127-20 West 24th Si York City asx torHorlick’s The ORIGINAL \; Malted Milk 4 For Infants, Children, Invalides, the Aged, etc. Avoid Im itat ‘om Masson's Annual for ¥ L. Masson (Doubleday, Page) 1 Palestine Notebook, Y918-1923, by C. R Ashbee (Doubled: ord Ho! by Chr Jay. Page) Qrest, by Rosita Forbes. (Holt) Midwest Portraits, by Harry Hansen (Har court, Brace). by Thomas ce) pher Morley (Double comicbooks.com