Life, 1924-12-11 · page 34 of 36
Life — December 11, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire or editorial cartoon material. The page contains: 1. **"The Slacker"** — A brief satirical piece mocking a man whose wife won the "Crossword Puzzlers" championship. The joke: his children will someday ask what *he* accomplished during "the Great Tournament" (WWI), shaming him by contrast. This targets men who avoided military service during World War I. 2. **Mrs. Pep's Diary** — A humorous personal essay about holiday shopping and domestic life, without political content. 3. **Multiple advertisements** — Golf resort promotions, a dog remedy book, cough drops, and smoking pipes dominate the page. 4. **"The Louvain Library Fund"** — A brief notice soliciting donations to rebuild a Belgian library destroyed in WWI, reflecting American post-war charitable sentiment. The page lacks substantial political cartooning or satirical commentary beyond the brief "Slacker" piece, which uses light ridicule to enforce WWI-era social pressure on non-participants.
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32 LIFE - Golf this winter at HOTEL & COTTAGES Open Monday = January Sth A new addition to the Belleview of 144 rooms and baths has been com- pleted. Every year a larger number of golfers regard Belleair as the only place in winter. Two famous 18-hole courses. Fre- quent tournaments, attracting lead- ing golfers. All sports on land and water. Biltmore service and cuisine. Thru Pullman to the doors from New York and Chlesge. For information or reservations, address The Biltmore,N.Y. John McEntee Bowmas Earle E. Carley, Vice-Pres. C. The Louvain Library Fund Tue Louvain Library was destroyed during the War, and our neighbors sorely needed help in its rebuilding. After the four years, the small coun- try that caught the first brunt of the fighting was badly off. In days of old the true neighbor of the wounded man was he who showed mercy to him, and we are told to do likewise, so America promised the Belgians their Library should be restored. Let us now make good. With pleasure we list two other friends. Previously acknowledged. ....$531.60 18.40 5.00 James He M! Campbell... $555.00 Checks, payable to Lire, marked “For Louvain Library Fund,” will be duly forwarded. The Slacker A younG married woman has been crowned Queen of the Crossword Puz- zlers. Judge of her husband's shame when, in years to come, the little ones cluster at his knee and ask: “And what did you do in the Great Tournament, Grandpapa?” Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 10) expected. Then up, and out along Madison Avenue to pick up a few ob- jects of indeterminate value against the usual mad emergency dash on Christmas Eve, but I saw little that I myself should care to possess which came within my means, so sadly home, lamenting that it is not proper to send sheets of postage stamps or some other staple necessity by way of Yuletide benevolence. The Christmas spirit does never seize me until holly is visibly on the market and messenger boys begin to stagger about under great white boxes. Then do I become such a zany that I can telephone for eleventh hour mistletoe with a straight face. Awake carly, with a strange feeling that this date is the birthday of somebody [ know, and thankful, after sume pondering, that [ could not re- Samuel in, asking me mysterious questions in an inno- member who it is. cent manner with a view to determin- ing what he shall give me for Christ- mas, and I do thank God that judges and juries do not see through him as clearly as I do, else we should both be inmates of an eleemosynary institu- tion. Lord! I do hope that this year he will not buy me some costly bauble which I could well do without. There come times in every one’s life when a sizeable cheque b: s even with a good name in superiority to rubies....This day I did contract a severe cold, there- by bringing to an end my annual cam- paign against the wearing of woolen hosiery. Baird Leonard. Free Dog Book by noted specialist. Tells how to FEED AND TRAIN KEEP HiM Hautey s CURE DOG DISEASES How to put dog in condition, kill fleas, cure scratching, mange, dis- temper. Gives twenty-Gve famous Q-W Doc REMEDIES end 150 illustrations of dogs. leads, training collar: harness, stripping combs, dog houses, ete. Mailed fre I Q-w Bound Bet Newser Dept. 19 Bound Brook, New Jersey COUGH DROPS Horanrcome Cora in aha KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIPE uy bi 19% Nicotis ie 33% Ammonis, 9800" Literature eee” oe PME SS | Kabler & a, toe, $94 20Ub SL. Guttevbery, West New York, W. J. wrmacer manem company, wew vous San Diego. Los Ange San Franéisco Sailing from From San Francisco jew Yor! via Los Angeles Dec.24 MANCHURIA Jan.17 Jan. 6 KROONLAND Dec.13 Jan.22 FINLAND Dec.27 Apply Dept. C, No. 1 Broadway, New York; 460 Market Street, San Francisco, or any authorized steamship agent. PANAMA Paciric LINE wavionas Mun¢anviis Masins Compal Three Ways to Get a Free Ticket to Russia 1. Reap through the Old Testament ; pick out some of the declarations of the seers of the day regarding the rights of the people; take them out of their poetic dress and phrase them in modern English. 2. Go back in American History to 1787 and 1788; dig up some of the objections to the Constitution then made by the most reputable statesmen and editors of the day; repeat them within earshot of General Dawes 3. Repair to the Newspaper Room of your library; get copies of the lead ing papers published during the cam- paign of 1912; take from them some of Woodrow Wilson's remarks about Wall Street—and try to oppose an in crease in the tariff rates on wool by quoting those sentiments as your own! P. W.-K. Correct This Sentence Coto E1rcut Owner (after collision with Ford): Here, my man, take this five hundred and buy yourself a new car. Forp Owner: Oh, that’s too much; twenty-five will do. comicbooks.com