Life, 1924-07-17 · page 34 of 36
Life — July 17, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and miscellaneous content page** from Life magazine, with minimal satirical cartooning. The main advertisement is for **Mollé shaving cream**, featuring photographs of men demonstrating the product's ease and effectiveness—standard early 20th-century product marketing. The page includes a poetry section titled "Lines of a Simple Man" by G.H., mocking intellectual bohemians in studios as pretentious and disconnected from ordinary life—a common satirical theme of the era. A brief correction appears regarding **New York City surrogates** (court officials), clarifying that the county has two such officials, not one as previously stated in Life. The remaining content comprises a "Books Received" list, real estate bond advertisements, and medical advertisements for remedies addressing catarrh and related ailments—reflecting common health concerns and patent medicine marketing of the period. The page reflects 1920s American consumer culture and publishing practices rather than sustained political or social satire.
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Hewins (Macmillan), Ernest Harold Baynes (Mac- Against This Age, by Maxwell Bodenheim “(Boni & Liveright). Outlawang the Almighty, ell UJ. J. McCarthy, Mass.) Masks and Demons, by LacGowan and Herman Rosse (Harcourt, Brace) Our American Theatre, by Oliver M. Sayler (Brentano). Valentine's Manual of Old New York, by Henry Collins Brown (Valentine's Man- val, Inc.). Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie (Macmillan). English Poctry. of the Nineteenth Centu Ras Elliott and Norman Foerster {fsernillsn), dy, by Louis Hémon (Macmillan), « Vance Rus- My University Days, by Maxim Gork (Boni & Liverightien 7 OY the Peace, by Frederick Niven Beyond “1. James (Boni & Ken ght)’ Scarlet Runner, by Elizabeth Shaw Mont- gomery (Crowell). White Siscks, by William Hewlett (Hough- ton Mifflin). by Charles D. Justice ni Branch Cabell Rejucenction, by 1" Paul Kammerer (Boni Liveright). Not Wonted, by ‘Jesse Lynch Williams (Seribn Fundamentals of Baseball, Wardlaw (Scribner). . When Helf Gods Go, by Norah M. Holland (Macmillan). Eve's Lover, by Mrs. W. K. Clifford (Scrib- ner). Christianity and the State, by S. Parkes Cad- man (Macmillan, Race, by William (STNROOP HALLENBECK CRAWTORD DMPA, NEW YORK icFee (Doubleday, Page), ; ro Analysis Lines of a Simple Man I LIke the folk in studios— They keep my brain up on its toes; Yet they’re an awful funny lot, So ultra and so polyglot, And so afraid of talking rot. They seem to know 'most every one And what he does and whom he’s done, They talk so lightly and so free Of things that really count for me, I'm just as puzzled as can be. G. H. Two Surrogates in New York One surrogate to a county is the usual allowance; but New York County, being so populous, has two, To ignorance of that fact was due a misstatement in Lire of May 22 to effect that former Surrogate Cohalan ran independently against James A. Foley for Surrogate. He didn’t. He ran against J. P. O'Brien. Since every solvent life proceeds in the direction of the Surrogate, and, if duly accumulative, finally reaches his office, let us all remember that New York has two, though, happily, only one Mayor Hylan. Catarrh, Etc. Your blood, containing fruit 2, isthe sony pe stance that can dissclve any mucus or “j ‘your system. Mucus-Making Foods To tts passage through the rd Taucus ts eecreted to ‘Various organs, causing disease. The effects or sympt are then named variously according to location, but the fource of the trouble 1s the eame—fermentation, ebiely from butter, ebecse, creata, fat, oil, salt, ete. when Used beyond your capacity, or in wrong combinations, 100 Names for 1 Disease ‘Mucus causes eatarth of the eyes (conjunctivitis); of the pose (rhinitis), of tarths 10 ears (otitis, deafness), of tho bronchial tubes (bronchitis, asthina), of the lungs (tuber= culos), of the stomach | (gastrit ae at the appendis Gppendicitio, of the bowels (collts), et Correct Eating Cures Pure Juice trom grapefrutts; Without, sugar, and pure to- Fresh frult acids clean a from mucus or acidity. Hyper= juced by mucus from fermenting Jastas vi rande from fermenting sugar. syrups toa fruits. Due Fees fruit ‘acid then correcily combined is always benete! Objectionable stare of catarrh aro expectoration. whawhit “running nose." 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