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This page is primarily **advertising** rather than satirical content. The dominant features are commercial ads: 1. **Diamonds** (Jason Weiler & Sons): A Boston diamond importer selling rings at $135-$200 directly to consumers, claiming 20-40% savings versus retail. 2. **Ingram's Shaving Cream**: Marketed to men with "tough beards or tender skins," emphasizing comfort and preventing irritation. **Editorial Content:** - **Mrs. Pep's Diary** (continued column): A gossip-style diary entry describing social visits, including a reference to someone returning from Europe with complaints about voyage seasickness. - **LIFE's Fresh Air Fund**: A charity appeal documenting donations to send poor children to the country, showing contributions ranging from $3-$25. The page reflects 1920s-era consumer culture (jewelry, grooming products) and social concerns (child welfare charity). There are no political cartoons or satirical commentary visible. This is a typical magazine issue mixing advertising with light social commentary and charitable appeals.

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LIFE ‘sv DIAMONDS ma from Ja Ame: Weiler & Sons, Boston, M. ica’s leading diamond importers and Save 20 to 40°, For over forty-eight years the house of Jason ¢ & Sons, of Boston, has been ove of the Ieeding Giamoad Tmaporting ’coneeres ie a somicn selling direct by mail to customers and. dealers furely Interest any present or prospective diamond parehaser Fine Blue-White Absolutely Perfect “% DIAMOND RING $135.00 This beautiful 18k sottd white sitely hand anllen, Ladies’ Phtieee!| Diamond Ring ‘ $200.00 Men's Fine Fine, full cut blue- Diamond Ring to diate Fall cut bluswhite Diamond of fin> brite Hancy set in ISK sotkt white gold richly carved men's ring. A remarkat $200.00 value for . A few weights and prices of other diamond rings }earat $31.00 | | carat $73.00 Zor bceres [carat $0.00 | 1 carat 145.00 If desired, rings will be sent to aay beak 30 may name or any Express >. with peivilece ination. Or d guarantee ue for all t goes with every chase, WRITE TODAY, hi CATALOG ¢ be FREE ON OH OW W TO BUY DIAMONDS” ‘This book Is bea fully iHustra! Teits how to Jur select and buy dl wets i and qualttt 0 to & af authority. Jason Weiler & Sons 371 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Corner of Washington and Franklin Streets Diamond Importers Since 1876 Foreign Agencies: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Londen For Tough Beards or Tender Skins YOU will find delightful relief andcomfortin a jarofIngram's Therapeutic Shaving Cream. It rapidly softensthe toughest beard, Dut more than thatait prevents ¥ heal trouble- It leaves your skin with a soft, cool lotion effect. Ifyour druggist cannotsupply you send S0c for the jar that contains six months of shaving comfort. Or send 2c stamp for sample. Made particularly for a tender Frederick F. Ingram Co. 1038 Tenth St., Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 8) as if they were playing Drop the Re- frigerator....Harry Benson, just back from Europe, to luncheon, full of his sufferings on the voyag If the Statue of Liberty ever wants to see me again, he told me, she will have to He brought me a fine perfume, eraude by name, which suits me better—or so I think at the moment—than any I have ever used in my life. I did put George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on the gramophone for him, whereupon he stayed until five o'clock turn around. ‘Nocember Off betimes to service, this Ist being one day in the year on which I never fail to go to Sam says it is because I like “Of all the saints who from their labours rest,” and mayhap he is right, but it makes no difference. Amazed at recognizing so many in the congregation, in esp Lida Morris, heavily veiled, as if she feared detec- church, the hymn tion in some scandalous resort....To luncheon with Enid Everett, and it was tea-time before I knew it. What has become of the long afternoons of childhood ?...My husband, poor wretch, sitting in a great gloom when I did arrive home, nor could any sprightliness on my part divert him. Ah, I remem- ber, said I, you have been to the den- tist. Dentist! roared Sam, that man's an archeologist. Baird Leonard. Lire's Fresh Air Fund Live's 's Frese Ain Funp has been in opera- ¢ past thirty-seven years. expended $271,438. ks after the ¢ payable to Live's F D, and sent to $98 Madison A ork City. Acknowledged with Thanks Live's Fresh Air Fund gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the fol- lowing very kind donations : Previously acknowledged +$21,009.91 Mrs. Wm. Clark Brown, $.00 Philip H. Wootton, Montclair, N. J. 3.00 A Sunday's col ction “te m Aloha Hive, South Fairlee, Vt....... 16.19 Phyllis C. Terry, Berkeley, Calif. . $.00 Col. & Mrs. C. Prospere, Wash. 10.00 15.00 Proceeds of a fait held by two litte girls at Spring Lake, N. J, 8.40 Proceeds of an_ illustrated lecture given by two boys of Montclair, N. J. 14.35 Alice I. B. Massey, Manila, + Charles Strong Walton, Los Angeles V. D. Shutte, Hilo, Hawaii... Cottage Services, Canandaigua, N.Y. Clark Redfield, Tenafly, N. J...... Dr. M. H, Todd, Lynch, Ky Jno. T. Pickett, Manila, P. I In memory of Little Miss Helena, Parkersburg, W. Va. $21,136.75 SVYMROOP MALLEMBECH ERAWYOPD COMPANY, MEW YORK Stout Men Reduce! You men who have taken on too much weight—why don't yo ua reduce? hie on letting fey at you: ing you ep Be fhods you like to eat id to do the things you could enjoy you were slender? Reduce the pleasant way—without exer- cises or diets! Thousands of men doit every year. They use Marmola Tablets to restore the health, which only slender men enjoy. No bother, no trouble—just follow the simple directions which come in every box No one but yourself will ever know how you got slender and young looking again. drug stores have Marmola Tablets— one dollar a box. Or from us direct in plain wrapper, postpaid. Marmola Co., 184 General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich. MARMOLA he Pleasant Way lo Reduce Next Week GIRL SCOUTS’ NUMBER OVER by Norman Rockwe Drawings by Percy Crosby, Joh Held, Jr., Heath Williams and many others. Robinson, Gluy¢ Don't miss it. Protect yourself against hold-up, rowdies, ete. with this clever cigarette case aty pepe V TATWPIROER 69 Dep Ha, 894 Sut Ae. KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIPE ‘akes out of the smoke 19% Nicotin, 85% Pyridi. 33% Ammoniac. $5.90. ‘Literature free. Kobler & Co. ine, $94 26th St, Guttenders, West New York, W. > PLAY A TUNE IN 10 Hf baled ze Bee BE Bel Fata Say Dap, 9407, Chips comicbooks.com