Life, 1924-09-25 · page 32 of 37
Life — September 25, 1924 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine with several brief humorous anecdotes in the "Our Foolish Contemporaries" section (reprinted from European publications). **Main content:** - **Top left**: Testimonial ads for Reedsdale cigarettes using fake reader letters - **Center**: "Q.E.D." — a satire on academic pretension. A mathematics professor lectures a wheelwright about geometry, then asks how the man calculates a wheel's circumference. The wheelwright replies he simply multiplies the diameter by 3.1416 (pi) because "it's the custom"—missing the professor's point entirely. The joke: the professor expected to demonstrate geometry's necessity, but the practical worker already uses the correct formula without understanding *why*, deflating intellectual superiority. **Other anecdotes** mock Scottish frugality and verbose terminology in simple contexts. **Advertisements** dominate: Bellans antacid, hair removal cream (Neet), sanitary garbage cans, and pipes—typical early 20th-century patent medicine and consumer goods.
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