Life, 1925-03-26 · page 34 of 37
Life — March 26, 1925 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with one satirical diary entry**. The main advertisements include E.Z. garters (elastic leg wear), remedies for bow legs, a refrigerator, and hair-removal cream—typical 1920s-era products. The satirical content is **"Mrs. Pep's Diary,"** a recurring column mocking upper-class social pretension. The narrator describes visiting a play ("Is Zat So?"), attending the Philharmonic, and gossiping about friends like Nina Searles (who needs money) and Agnes Smith. The humor derives from the diary's affected tone—using phrases like "betimes" and "forasmuch"—while discussing mundane domestic matters and social visits. The inserted cartoon shows **cavemen**, likely satirizing primitive communication (the garbled dialogue suggests uncivilized speech), possibly mocking either early humans or contemporary lower-class behavior as a foil to the refined Mrs. Pep. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and class-based satire common to Life magazine.
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THE ORIGINAL wive GARTER What's your idea of a garter? Heavy elastic with clumsy adjustments? tourniquet on the calf? Or a garter made of light elastic webbing scientifically constructed 30 @3 to stay up and eliminate all binding? Surely the latter—a common sense garter—that's E. 2., the original wide web, Self-adjusting and pulls over the foot with case. Change to a pair today. If your dealer hasn't them, send_us SOc and his name. and we'll see you are supplied. For legs suring over 14 inches, ask for “large Single or double grip. Made solely by The Thos. P. Taylor Co., Bridgeport, Conn, Originators of tie Wide Web Idea ‘ond Cave H’oman: Necky Bo! YOW ETSOBUM, YUP OBOL NO HICKY (Hardly worth while giving the reader a literal tra tion—the second friend that be ¢ lady is merely. assuring her tim bed hair has come to stay.) BOW. LEGS? Our Garter (pat'd) Makes Trousers Hang Straight It Adjustable et D Dept. 28 829 Beacon St.. Boston on ie Refrigerator you buy It is your guarantee of perfect food pres- ervation, absolute sanitation, economi- cal ice consumption, “THE CHEST WITH and lasting perma: THE CHILL IN IT" pence. Write for descriptive booklets MAINE MANUFACTURING CO., NASHUA, N.H. Ectencehesfinallrecives thepreb Jem of removing hair ple: without discomfort to the skin or complexion, This with NEET, a mild ‘and dainty cream, You merely spread it ‘on and then rinse off with clear water. That's all; the bair will be gone and the skin left refreshingly cool, smooth and white! Old methods, the nwomanly razor ‘and severe chemical preparations, have given way to le hair-removing eream which is the ac~ method of well-groomed women everywhere. eat Drog and it stores or by mail, Money back if it fails to please you. Buy now. MANNIBAL PHAR, CO., 601 GLIVE ST. ST. LOUIS, MD, Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 5) wrought....To the playhouse this eve- ning to see “Is Zat So?” one of the most comickal pieces that ever I saw in my life. Kept late to my bed, chat- March sing idly with Nina Searles, 20th who is come to visit us that Sam may reinvest her money be- fore, as she put it, her possessions dwindle to the black silk dress and one hundred dollars requisite for admission to an Old Ladies’ Home. Not wishing to encourage in such silly posturing any one who has just bought a chin- chilla cloak, I did answer her gravely, saying I felt that institutions for elderly women were not so dire as their de- scriptions, and that I could fancy my- self raising quite amusing ructions as an inmate of one, falling back on the excuse of senile dementia whenever the superintendent caught me at my pranks....To the Philharmonic with Nina after luncheon, somewhat dis- mayed to see Richard Strauss on the program, forasmuch as I can usually mistake his most finished work for the tuning-up of an orchestra, but the Don Quixote Variations proved to be spirited, accurate and interesting. I was reminded, too, of the time I said, BUSH TERMINAL PRINTING CORPORATION, BROOKLYN, MY, Don't be Quixotic! to Agnes Smith, and she retorted, Quixotic being Span- ish for “a damned fool.” Up betimes, wishing des- March perately that I were in 2ist aly, and remembering that the next time 1 do journey there. I must hunt up the old facteur at the Excelsior in Naples and give him the tip which he missed when Marge Boothby and I, having miscalculated the time, had suddenly to run the full length of the platform in order to catch the train for Rome....To luncheon at an inn with Sam, who ordered three portions of young spring onions the instant he saw them on the card, and then walking through the shops and the town till time to stop at Double George's, and when Sam saw tea things laid out, he was for turning back at the portal, but I dragged him in withal, which he was glad of afterwards, for Double served him a fine mixture of gin and citrous fruits strained through raspberry n, nor could I get him home for dinner till he had stopped at a shop and bought some of the jam for his own use. Baird Leonard. Witn radio fans picking up more and more foreign stations, it is not too soon to start a “Hear America First” campaign, comicbooks.com