Life, 1925-03-12 · page 31 of 40
Life — March 12, 1925 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes editorial content with advertisements typical of Life's format. **Mrs. Pep's Diary** is a recurring satirical column mocking upper-class women's concerns: obsessing over bridge-playing qualifications for social emergencies, consuming Swedish biscuits while dieting, and judging a friend "Florence C." for being overly principled. The humor targets wealthy women's perceived shallow priorities and hypocritical behavior (notably the jab at "E." who claims to diet while eating three helpings of eggs). **"Depreciation"** contains three brief social commentary jokes, likely post-WWI. The final quip—equating German soldiers' claimed superiority to American soldiers' monthly $33 wage as "exorbitant"—sarcastically critiques either military pay scales or the war's cost. **Advertisements** for Milano pipes and Wrigley's gum occupy the remaining space, using period marketing language ("insured," "wholesome"). The page reflects 1920s Life's focus: satirizing American class pretensions while selling consumer goods.
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al be end is or prion LIFE - Here's a sporty long-stemmed pipe that’s @ uorlerfully cool smoke. It's the Milano No. 1739 THE sweetest pipe in the world’”’ —hand fashioned of Italy’s rarest briar— insured for your protection —and made in 26 smart shapes. Sold everywhere—$3.50 up. Look for the white triangle on the stem. Ws. DEMUTH & CO. World's Largest Manufacturers of Fine Pipes FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 23) through remembering Sam's injunction not to hire one who could not make a fourth at bridge in an emergency. To Marge Boothby's for tea, eating more Swedish biscuit than I should have, and so home to dinner and a quiet evening. Cast down this morning by a letter from Florence C,, who, I think, is making a grave mistake in the conduct of her life. Lord! why is it that persons who put such stress on doing what they think is right always seem to miss what is right so widely? The blunders an idealist can make in arriving at his de- cisions account, methinks, for the saying that fools do more harm in the world than knav Edith Banning in to sec me, complaining of a severe pain in her Fad, but she would not take the remedy which I suggested, so I forbade her speaking further of her malady, having no patience with persons who continue their lamentation after spurn- ing relief. We fell a-talking of this and that, and E. did tell me of dis- covering that she can appear half her size by standing before the hinge strips of her dressing-table mirror, and how the vision has inspired her to go again upon a rigorous diet. But not immediately, I take it, she having stopped to luncheon and been holpen thrice to eggs Aurore. My husband says that a fine epitaph for E. would be, She never was—but always to be—thin. March All a-flutter over a cheque March {rom our Aunt Caroline 7th on the first post, which has more weight with me against an ap- proaching millennium than anything the Apostle of Doom did say. Yet even so, I shall not hasten to spend it, as is my custom with such windfalls, having learned through experience that I do frequently tire of a possession for which I have suddenly laid out a great sum. Lord! I do even believe that if the Trojans could have but taken Helen on approval, they would have sent her back to Menelaus at the end of a month and called off the war. Baird Leonard. Depreciation Acatua: I can't understand Algy. He sent us each a silver novelty for Christmas, but he never comes near us. Harriett: Perhaps he thinks the nov- elty has worn off. Mayor-Gex. Buttaxp says one Ger- man soldier was worth three Allied. We always knew $33 a month was an exorbitant price for a Yank dough- boy. as Ky It ‘pinest Acanny young fellow is Jim- He had four pals to treat and only 5 tohis name ! ‘A packetot Wrisleys please~said he ~ andeach lad had awholesome sweet. Refreshing - thirst-quench- ing-digestion- aiding -delicious and beneficial. So remember: WRIGLEYS comicbooks.com