Life, 1925-02-12 · page 34 of 36
Life — February 12, 1925 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page mixes advertisements with reader submissions to Life's picture-title contest. The **Absorbine Jr. ad** uses a sore-throat appeal to sell liniment—standard medical advertising of the era, when such products made broad health claims. "**The Laugh Cure**" is Life's self-promotional advertisement, joking that laughter (provided by their magazine) cures melancholy better than medicine. This reflects 1920s optimism about humor's therapeutic value. The right column prints **winning contest entries**—readers submitted captions for a Life photo and won cash prizes. Ruth H. Morgan won $500 (substantial money then); Byron Wilder won $50. Their grateful letters show how valuable such prizes were to working people. The final section, "**To-day**," appears to be satirical news commentary on current events (Mussolini, Italy, orphans), though the text is fragmentary. The page overall reflects Life's dual identity: a humor magazine that also published serious content and reader participation contests.
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LIFE How is Your Throat ? Full of soreness and swollen—sending achesall and body? If this i is your throat — then why not make a few improvements? Absorbine, Jr., that accomplished lini- ment and capable antiseptic, will remove the germs and rawness, clear out the aches and pains. It will promote health and comfort, a clear voice and clean taste. Men who can't afford to be ill use Absorbine, Je. daily, as a preventive. Asa gargle within ands massage on throat muscles, Absorbine, Jr. is most effective. It is stainless and agreeable. Atall druggists’, $1.25, or postpaid. Liberal trial botile, 16c., postpaid. W. F. YOUNG, Inc., Springfield, Mass ree —raw and over yourhead The Laugh Cure, An Absolutely New Treat- ment for Melancholy Prescribed by ift with unfailingly happy results. Allopaths, homeopaths, osteopaths, all effect occasional cures, but the modern trend is less medicine and more of nature, wherein comes Our Treatment. Laughter is Nature’s own medicine. One good laugh will fade out the atmosphere from indigo to a pale forget-me-not hue, while two or three bleach it completely and drive the blues away. LIFE with Its Laugh on Every Page not only supplies the needed two or three laughs, but gives many excess treatments every week, all for the one sub- scription price! Try it yourself for six months, or try our Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Lire for the next ten weeks to LIFE One Year $5 598 Madison Avenue, New York Canadian $3.80 Foreign $6.60 air From a Successful Authoress Cn reply to a check for $500—the first prize in Live’s lost Picture Title Contest.) Never since the beginning of time, my time, has anything so stupendously surprising and pleasing happened as this To get a prize at all would have brought on a joy jag, but to get the prize is a complete knockout. I have just recently finished three years of nurses’ train- ing and have hardly gotten over the thrill of my first pay check. It is altogether possible that five hundred dollars at one time will ruin me, “career” and all, as the Liberty man was ruined with his twenty thousand. I shall make an effort to conduct myself nearly enough within the realms of sanity so as not to have your too indulgent liberality cen. sured by the humane society or some other keeper of morals Please accept my thanks. I am sincerely and gratefu yours, Rutu H. Morcay: January 16, 1925 The Fourth Prize Winner Ir has made me a little cocky to think that my sugg was selected as one of four from one hundred thirty. thousand and Eddie Cantor It may interest you to know that [ am a struggling young baritone and the fifty dollars helps to swell the fund for study in New York. My thanks to Lire and its judges. Sincerely, Byron G. Winer. Care of Washington Club, January 13, 1925. Ultimate Reward “Whey I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies,” ‘Twill be because I've tried each year To win Lire’s Title prize. Aftermath, January 15 To-day (By the Poorest Paid Newspaper Writer in the World) Mussouin1 has ordered ten tons of dried fish from Abdul Ahem. But Italy has only a few flying men. What will Yavy do when the Assyrians sweep down upon Rome planes, dropping deadly gases as they fly? An orphan girl has just died in Jason, Mich rich mother a large fortune. Money counts for something. of the nation leaving her Wealth is not everything Such children are the hope A mother is worth more than a cruiser. In nine minutes one plane can destrc being favorable. for war.” He five cruisers, the weather Roosevelt said, “In time of peace prepare was right. Preparedness is security. Yet Mesopotamia has two planes to our one Rockeicller plays golf at cighty-five. the French Wonderful people. John D. has given away another dime. That's public service. Several dimes would build and equip a nice airplane. New York can now be reduced to ashes in less than an hour with high explosives dropped from the clouds by enemy flyers. China has fewer planes to the squaro mile than any nation in the world except the United States. There's something to think about. M.C. comicbooks.com