Life, 1924-11-13 · page 40 of 42
Life — November 13, 1924 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The main items include: 1. **Cruise ship advertisements** for White Star Line and Red Star Line, promoting luxury Mediterranean and West Indies voyages—typical 1920s leisure marketing. 2. **A brief humorous dialogue** ("In Cosmopolitan New York") playing on **immigrant/language barriers**: A customer asks a Greek clerk for a gift, speaking in Spanish/Italian about a "beautiful señorita" and "dear girl," while the clerk claims not to understand, saying "I am Greek." The joke trades on the stereotype of confused communication between immigrants of different backgrounds in New York. 3. **"The Three-Minute Gun"** anecdote: A lighthearted Irish story about a lighthouse keeper so accustomed to hearing foghorn signals every three minutes that he wakes alarmed when one *fails* to sound—illustrating human adaptation to routine. 4. **Small advertisements** for stationery, cough drops, and other products. 5. **Books Received** listing contemporary titles. No significant political content or recognizable caricatures appear on this page.
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wages adil __ UBB a to summer skies Halcyon days aship and ashore following one another in an ever-alluring panorama of beauty. Fascinating cities spread their treasures for the discerning eye. Superb ships offer the acme ot comfort to happy voyagers. In the Mediterranean White Star liner Adriatic, sailing from New York, Jan. 7 and Feb. 26. Red Star liner Lapland, Jan. 17 and Mar. 8. Beck in New York 46 days later. Itinerary: Madeira, Gibraltar (Al- eciras), Algiers, Monaco, Naples, thens, Constantinople, Haifa (for Holy Land), Alexandria (for Egypt and the Nile). 12,164 miles. For complete information apply to Cruise De; York, our offices elsewhere WHITE S In the West Indies White Star liner Megantic, from New York Jan. 22 and Feb. 25. Returning in 30-31 days. Itinerary: Havana, Santiago, Haiti, Kingston, Panama Canal, Carta- ena, Curacao, La Guaira, Port of Spain, Barbados, Fort de France, St. Thom: in Juan, Nassau. 6,492 miles. tment, No. 1 Broadway, New re, or any authorized steamship agent. LINE - RED STAR LINE ———— eee In Cosmopolitan New York Customer: I want to buy a present. Crerk: Quelquechose pour une femme? Customer: Si, Una bella seiiorita. Una niiia carissima. Crerk: No understand, mein Herr. I am Greek. PERSONAL. STATIONERY io0 enveLores 91.00 7 Name and Address _ ted in beautiful, rich blue Ink. oo and sent to y Dald for Shaan aati If Inconvenient to send the money, we will C. Money returned if you are not more than Order today. Write name ant address piatn!y AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY i zz ee ie us today for our agent's proposition. ELITE STATIONERY COMPANY 7089 Main Street Smethport, COUGH DROPS TOPINE CORPORATION ~ Philedeiphia Pa KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIPE Takes out of the smoke 19% Nicotin, 85% Pyridin, 33% Ammoniac. $5.90. ‘Literature free. Kobler & Co. Inc, 594 26th $1, Gattenderz, West New Yort, Md Earn Xmas Money vid eon su ASL50 und cy 93:00 heg Worbendunt Pas ‘Dept. 21A Brookiyn, W. ¥. The Three-Minute Gun Atonc the Irish coast are a number of lighthouses which fire a signal gun at three-minute intervals during foggy weather. To a visitor the noise is irri- tating and unbearable, making sleep an utter impossil y. So adaptable is man, however, that to the seasoned lighthouse keeper not only does the mo- notonous boom pass quite unnoticed, but a break in its rcgularity reacts as a dis- turbance. The tale is told of one old Irishman of long service who slept soundly and peacefully during a stormy night while his faithful wife fired the roaring three- minute signals—that is, he rested com- fortably until by some shortcoming one of the charges failed to explode. Instantly he awoke, sat up, gazing wildly, and shouted, “Maggie! What inh was that?” Speaking from Experience Geratoine: Are you going up to the Harvard-Yale game? Lucy: I suppose so—Jack forgot to apply for tickets. Switzer-ann recently rejected a fifty-four-hour week, doubtless without the sanction of the Swiss watchmakers, who could have had no objection to working over-time. (TURDGP MALLENBECE ORAWVORD COMPANY, NEW YORK, Books Received These Eventful Years—The Twentieth Cen. tury in the Making (The Encyclopxdia Britannica Co., Ltd.). The Color of Youth, by V. H. Friedland, (Putnam). Cowboys North and South, by Will Jam (Scribner), Beggars of i. Charles _ Bon Sails of Suns y Jim Tully (Albert a Cecil Roberts (Stoke Memories and ‘Adventures, by Sir Art Conan Doyle (Little, Brown) Football ond How to Watch It, by Perey Haughton (Little. Brown). To-morrow and To-morrow, by Step) McKenna (Little, Brown Brighter Intervals, by Gordon Phillips (Hol With Lawrence in Arabia, by Lowell Thor (Century). Colombia, Land of Miracles, by Blair N (Century) Twisted Tales, by Christopher Ward (Holt The Land. of Journeys’ Ending, by M Austin (Century) The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor L. Fran er (Century) How to Keep Well, by A. V, Currier, M. (Century) The Péep-Show Man, by Padraic Cc jacmillan). Where Strange Gods Call, by Harry Hervs ‘an Kings, by Frederick L. Coll Century). Glimpses of Japan and Formosa, by Marry Franck (Century). Personality of Insects, by Royal Dixon Brayton, Eddy (Co AWW, Clark Co.) The Lord of the Sea, by M. P. Sb (Knopf). Professor, How COULD You! by Mar Leon Wilson (Cosmopolitan). His Second Venture, by Mrs. Bail Reynolds (Doran). Last of the Setting Sun, by George B McCutcheon (Dodd, Mead). Sticks and Stones, by Lewis Mumford (1. & Liveright) Rugged Water, by (Appleton). Sudden Wealth, by Henry James Form (Boni & Liveright). Mariposa, by Henry Joseph C. Linco! Baerlein (Boni Liveright) are more popular ~ A graceful slender girl holds a fascination which oaly slender women have. Men admire a youthful silhouette. Instinctively, they are drawn towards the woman whose figure is graceful and shapely. That's why slender girit are always popular. But why worry about being overweight? It’s easy to reduce. Use Marnola Tablets (thousands of men and women each year regain healthy, slender this way). These tablets will make you slender again. Try them. No exercises or diets. All drug stores have them— one dollar abox. Or are eiervarne ia plain wrap- "> postpai: larmola Co., 1843 fal Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich. MARMOLA. 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