Life, 1924-09-25 · page 31 of 37
Life — September 25, 1924 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page combines advertisements with satirical diary entries and social commentary typical of 1920s Life magazine. **The Advertisements** promote grooming products (Liquid Arvon for dandruff, Barbasol shaving cream) and Wilbur Buds chocolate—standard consumer goods marketing. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** is a humorous column mocking upper-class domestic life. It presents trivial complaints (an ugly Madonna painting, an opera singer's noise, finding a boa constrictor in a shop) with exaggerated drama, satirizing how wealthy women inflate minor inconveniences into major grievances. **"Why I Almost Joined the Lucy Stone League"** satirizes opposition to women's suffrage and independence. The quoted objections—dismissing women's freedom as "freak modern notions," suggesting activists only seek "advertising," questioning what happens to "kiddies"—represent actual anti-feminist arguments of the era. The satire exposes how opponents patronized and minimized women's legitimate demands for equality and autonomy. Together, these pieces mock both the self-absorbed privileged and the social conservatism resisting women's liberation.
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Sure Way to Get Rid of Dandruff There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely, and that is to dissolve it. Then you destroy it entirely. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at 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 dandruff will be gone, and two or three more applications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff You can get Liquid Arvon nt any | drug store, and a four ounce bottle is all you will need. This simple remedy has never been known to fail. | LIQUID ARVON Makes a Man Wish He Had Two Chins Barbasol produces such a silky shave. And easy—well! No brush. No rub-in. Just the blade and Barbasol. You try it —three times—ac- cording to directions. 35c and 65c tubes. 7 Indianapolis, Ind. Please mail me our Free Trial ‘ube of Barbasol. For Modern Shaving : LIFE - Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 23) futureday. Or for a rug for your bath- room, the wretch added. There are some matters of which men know naught, but in which it is best sometimes for a woman to hold her peace... . All a-flutter this day over the arrival of a great package from C. Dodds, hoping it was something handsome he had sent me from Europe, but it was the painting of a life-size Madonna on a Turkish towel, the most horrible thing that ever I saw in my life, so I must now admit that he is one up in our battle of exchanging rococo presents. A car- toon after Murillo—long after, read the card....Greatly annoyed all the evening by the trillings of the colora- tura who has recently moved into our neighborhood. She may sing like a bird, but I had liefer hear the bird. September Maida Lee in to see me this morning, and she did tell 25th me that she had bought a book on palmistry and discovered there- in what it is in her hand that sooth- sayers have always been silent upon— namely, several accidents and a violent death. So now she is undecided whether or not to keep hoarding her money against an old age which she may never achieve. M. stopped to luncheon, eating nothing whatsoever of consequence, stating that she had gained so much flesh recently that when she first heard of “So Big” she had hastened to read it to find out if she were the subject of it....To a great shop in the afternoon to buy in the live-stock department some white mice for an urchin of my acquaintance, and whilst I was leaning idly on a glass counter, I chanced to glance down and beheld a boa constrictor beneath my elbows. Whereupon I was so upset that I thought seriously of ascending to cancel Ned Peebles’s charge account. Baird Leonard. Why I Almost Joined the Lucy Stone League “THere’s no use talking, when a woman gets these freak modern no- tions into her head it's good-by home and mother.” “She's crazy; she only thinks she wants her freedom.” “What's to become of the kiddies with no ‘missus’ around the house?” “You don’t suppose they really mean it, do you? Why, all they're lookin’ for is the advertising.” “Girls used to be proud of the name their husbands gave them. Take the wife, for instance——” “T'd like to attend one of their meet- ings for just about five minutes—I'd knock a little sense into them.” FLW. Exguistre MORSELS of Vanilla Chocolate, wrapped in pure foil. Delicious sun-ripened fruit. A delightful food-con- fection for the entire family. Tempting to the last piece. If your dealer cannot supply you, send * $1.00 for a pound box. Wears, H. O. Wisur & Sons, Inc., Phila., Pa. Makers of Wilbur's Cocoa : tin as comicbooks.com