Life, 1925-02-19 · page 33 of 37
Life — February 19, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, though it contains some editorial content. The main satire appears in **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** (continued from prior pages), a humorous domestic column depicting marital annoyances. The unnamed husband is portrayed as an irritating houseguest who drinks whisky, demands entertainment (phonograph music), performs crude vaudeville tricks with china plates, and refuses to acknowledge social propriety—he's "not let it get the better of you; nobody above Twenty-third Street has my heart." The page's dominant feature is a large **Bayer Aspirin advertisement** emphasizing brand authenticity ("Say 'Bayer Aspirin' and Insist!"). Below it, a **Pepsodent toothpaste ad** promotes a new "film-removal" method for teeth cleaning, claiming superiority over old brushing techniques. A smaller notice announces contributions to the **Louvain Library Fund**, a post-WWI Belgian relief initiative, reflecting contemporary American charitable concerns about European reconstruction after World War I. The content reflects 1920s consumer culture prioritizing branded products and modern dental/medical science.
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* LIFE - Mrs. Pep’s Diary take the air, stopping at this and that (Continued from page 13) shop to find the kind of mules they hy date ome: Teflaction hé have in Paris, but I did find none. another, an 4 ! Jecided upon, I don’t remember your Hons wine ies Soeatry needs is no : And ‘the most pleasant, he revision of the tariff, but a factory that 0 And : but a y added is; This ryé whisky belonged to (ill Srmout. boudoir slipper with a ee tegrandfather. Then he did lining that will last more than five my great-g 3 e minutes. Baird Leonard. call for a hot toddy, after three beak- ers of which he was for having the * e gramophone brought into his room, The Louvain Library Fund next he was for trying the trick Resouveo, That America’s promise with china plates which he saw in shall be made good; that the Louvain vaudeville, so that before the day was Library shall be restored; and our pent I was at some pains to keep Pledge redeemed that we gave to the i from administering to him a people of Belgium after the destruc- tion of the Great War. Who'll help? unconscious....Dined alone this night, With pleasure we acknowledge con- and carly, exhausted, to bed. tributions from kind friends, and would ° remind our readers that $1,000 is our S. still abed, but I did goal; but we need not stop there. contrive a little peace for Previously acknowledged _. $619.00 the film on your teeth self by putting him at Molly E. Tyler, Philadelphia 5.00 . wa by puts which i C. H. Ward, New Haven . 20.00 for ten days crossword puzzles, against which he “A Lover of Belgium” . . 15.00 HIS offers you a ten-day test of a new has always railed, and he became so For Louvain Library Fund, way of teoth chaning. ‘Aillliane ‘Gow engrossed that he was soon bawling San Francisco. employ it. You can sce in every circle the for dictionaries and books of synonyms. whiter teeth it brings. It means vast benefits a Seabury to luncheon, which you should not go without. I did make some remark which she HOSE who answered the first How film ruins teeth deemed too cynical for me, she cau- question in the Contest, “What Film is that viscous coat you feel. Under tioned me, Now just because you have is the worst law in the United old-way Brabing mac ott slings end ay moved into so fashionable a neighbor- States?” must not miss the Cali- | hides the tdstec of the ihe BY Sy hood, do not let it get the better of yous | fornia Number (out next week), Film also holds food substance which fer- nobody above Twenty-third Street has with the winning answer. ments and forms acid. It holds the acid in y heart....Out along the Avenue to _ contact with the tecth to cause decay. Germs breed by millions in it. They, with tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea. Few escape such troubles when they brush teeth in the old ways. Now dental science has found ways to fight film. One disintegrates the film, one removes it without harmful scouring. Able authorities have proved these methods effective. So a new-type tooth paste has been created to apply them daily, The name is Pepsodent. The use has now spread the world over— to some 50 countries—largely by dental advice, Amazing results Pepsodent multiplies the alkalinity of the saliva, also its starch digestant. Thus it gives new power to these great Loouly protecting factors. The combined results are bringing a new dental era. Send the coupon fora test. Note how clean the teeth feel after using. Mark the absence “ ” crhiter ac the fimecoats disappear ‘Then you SAY BAYER ASPIRIN and INSIST! will know how to bring to Your home life-long benefits. Cut out coupon now. Unless you see the “Bayer Cross’ on tablets you are Protect the Enamel not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe Eeoeh as agent En adur ue cone “Nee by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for use a film combatant which contains harsh grit. P PAT.OFF 1 Colds Headache Fe EY4) d en The New-Day Quality Dentifrice Pain Neuralgia Based on modem research. Now advised by leading dentists the world over. Toothache Lumbago lro-DAY TUBE FREE Neuritis Rheumatism THE He Se. Hot S Wakes vive, Chicago, TL Mail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to Accept only “Bayer’’ package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. Aspirin 1s the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid comicbooks.com