Life, 1925-03-12 · page 32 of 40
Life — March 12, 1925 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, with brief humorous anecdotes interspersed. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - Buescher saxophone (musical instrument) - Johnston's chocolates (luxury candy) - Marmola tablets (weight-loss product) - Literary assistance services **Humor sections** feature short dialect jokes and observations: - An Italian immigrant's pun on actor "Noah Beery" (no beer, no work) - A married man's personality change - Observations about cigarette smoking "behind the barn" **Social context:** The Marmola ad reveals period anxieties about women's appearance post-marriage, addressing wives who've "lost their girlish figure." The Italian dialect story reflects early 20th-century entertainment using exaggerated immigrant accents as comedy. These are light, forgettable filler items—typical of Life's satirical-magazine format mixing advertisements with brief comic observations about contemporary life.
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fs Easy to Play g Easy to Pay N m : ‘True-Tone Saxophone Easiest of all instruments to play and one of the beautiful. Three first sons sent free give youa quick easy start —in a few weeks you can be playing Dopular tunes. No teacher necessary. You can take your place in a band or orchestra in ninety days, if you 00 desire. | Most popular ‘instru- J ment for “dance orchestras, home Free Saxophon and gives first heasce charts also pictares of famous professionals and orchestras. Jost send your name foracopy. Mention any other instrument ic ‘which yoo may be interested. BUESCHER BANO INSTRUMENT CO, (1) Everything in Rand and Orchestra Instruments 644 BUESCHER BLOCK, . . ELAMART, INDIANA Literary Assistance $s, Orations, Adilresses, Essays, ete., prepared to dect, $3. per thousand words sm, $1.50 per thousand words Manusc a correctly for publication (with one ca ¢ tiousand words Markets for Li “s F. H. CROSS, Studio 4553 Emerson Avenue, Suite 20, St. Louis, Mo. The Dear Dead Days An old-timer is one who can recall when smoking a cigarette behind the barn constituted the foundation of a disrep- ntable past—Detroit News. Dialect Story It seems there was this Italian, named Tony, or Giuseppe, or Oscar, or some- thing, who was asked who his favorite movie actor might be. Noah Beery,” came the unexpected answer. “Why him?” “I like-a hees idea,” replied the Italian. “And what's bis idea?” “No-a beery, no-a work!" said the dark scion of Sunny Italy, flashing a brilliant smile. He got the job. —Motion Picture Classic. Tablespuonful Abbott's Bitters in sweetened wate meals, ls great ald to digestion. Sample bitters by 26 cts. In stamps. C. W, Abbott & Co, Baltimore, Changed “I don’t see how that grouch ever got a wife.” “Before he was married he was the jolliest_ man aliv —Louisville Courier-Journal, Sue: I ‘ear she ain't ‘alf bin saying things about me, and if she don’t watch out I'll ‘ave ‘er up for definition of char- acter.—Tatler (London). © You will find @ special agency for John- iy) Chocolates mone of the better CHOCOLATES Gnchantment $ in this new Nuts o** Fruits Box Here is the latest Johnston's tri- umph--a glorious box of nuts and fruits from every corner of the world. Filberts... Brazil nuts... English walnuts; cherries from Italy, dates from the Orient —to name but a few of the enticing delights it contains, Dipped in Johnston’s wonderful chocolate--some with cream and a coating, some without ... and novelty pieces to surprise you! NS For gifts, for the pleasant duties of life, Johnston's is the preferred offering. Whether you send the Choice Box, this new Nuts and Fruits Box, or any one of a dozen other favourites. Johnston's _ Candies are worthy of the sweetest lady in all the world. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN ou were slender, too, | when you were abride'! Your mzmories of those happy days pict a graceful, slender girl—full of lite fall eagerness. What has become of her? Has she taken 00 weight—lost her girlish figure—perhaps even become stout? How needless a disaster! Youcan regain your youthful silhouette by using Marmola ‘ablets (thousands of men and women each year regain healthy, slender figures this way). Noexercises or diets. Eat what yo want, and get slender! All drug stores have them—one dollar 2 box. Or they ae be sent in plain wrap per, postpaid, by the Marmola Company, 1843 General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich MARMOLA Prescription Tablets Ne Pleasant Whey toPeduce The Spiritist “Scoffers! Unbelieving dullards! tell you with the utmost sincerity that have pierced the hideous shroud Death: that I bring you salvation fror fear older than man: that I have resolved an enigma as incomprehensible as lif itself—and you stand there grinning « me! Cannot your narrow ceive the thought that I have a perceptior that is totally lacking in yourselves? “Doubters! Enter this room with me sit silent? and be awed while Julius Cesar upsets a table, and Cleopatra whistles through her teeth!” —The New Yorker. minds cor Preferment “I've been congratulating the Colonel. He's just been appointed governor of one of our largest prisons.” “Really? Tell me—for a job like that do you want influence, or does one start as a convict and rise from the ranks?" —Punch, | $n a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE The Plunging Habit Wire (about to go out): I've put your clean shirt on the clothes-borse, darling. Huspanp (an inveterate gambler—ab- stractedly): Very well, dear—what odds did you get ?—Passing Show (London). comicbooks.com