Life, 1925-04-09 · page 36 of 41
Life — April 9, 1925 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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## The Main Cartoon The cartoon titled "My Husband Says" is a satirical commentary on married couples and vacations. It presents several anecdotes mocking marital dynamics: - **Mrs. Acrid** never leaves her husband (he has nervous prostration—implying she's the cause) - **Mrs. Chic** abandons her husband for two months annually, spending lavishly on beauty treatments and studying "How Famous Women Lured Men to Their Doom"—suggesting women use strategic absence and self-improvement to maintain marital interest - **Mrs. Smith** relies on legal obligation rather than effort The humor satirizes 1920s marriage expectations: wives' supposed responsibility for maintaining husbands' interest through either constant attendance or calculated absences and beauty maintenance. ## The Secondary Joke "Old Farmer Gulletson" visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa and mistaking it for a drunk man's silo provides rural American contrast—unsophisticated tourism humor common to the era. The page is primarily advertisement (Albright toothbrush) and book listings.
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LIFE “1 FINALLY READ TERDAY. “AM—AMONG THE AP “No—aT Homr, —Lustige Blatter (Berlin). My Husband Says THat no matter how devoted mar- ried people are, they should occasion- ally take a vacation from each other and go as far apart as waves and acro- planes will carry them. He thinks the happiest couples are those who have never met at all. Mrs. Acrid says she never leaves her husband for a minute. He has nervous prostration and Mrs. Chie says she would think he would. She says she feels brutal every time she recalls having leashed such an ador- able man as her husband; but having acquired him, she will hold his interest if she expires in the effort. My husband says Mr. Chic is lucky if she stops at the interest. So she says she deserts him for two months every season, though she's simply mad about him; but there’s method in her deser- tion. She spends five hundred dollars for a vacation and seven hundred for mud packs and muscle builders, chin straps and cold cream; and she makes an exhaustive study of “How Famous Women Lured Men to Their Doom.” She also bought one of those little shillalahs they advertise so much to re- duce the spots you don’t care much for and she says the exercise is extremely beneficial and impressively inspiring. Mrs. Smith says she depends upon the law to hold her husband and she gets sufficient exercise just looking for her glasses, by. BoSs Architectural Effect Otp Farmer Gulletson, of Raspberry Acres, having sold the south forty, took his bride of fifty years before on a trip to Europe. “Look, S'manthy!" he exclaimed, as they gazed upon the leaning tower of Pisa; “the fella musta been drunk when he built that silo.” ACBRIGAT .; TOOTH RUBBERSET A PRODUCT OF RUBBERSET CO. ACBRIGAT PTE RUBBERSET BROS RUGBBERSET Penetrates into every crevice! Ordinary toothbrushes do not prevent decay, because they only clean the even surfaces of the teeth. 4,118 dentists designed the Albright Tooth Brush with widely spoced wedge-shaped tufts of bristles to reach at the very seat of decay—in between, on the uncven grinding surfaces and the backs of the Lack teeth. More than 20,000 dentists now endorse the Albright Tooth Brush—different in design, different in results. 45¢ 35¢ 25¢ Handles in five Eee it colors for pit identification of your toothbrush—White, Li; ight Amber, ark Amber, Ruby, Blue RUBBERSET CO., NEWARK, N. J., U.S. A. ACBRIGAT = EWE! Te Ones RUBBERSES AES ENTERTAINING NEW FICTION A. HAMILTON GIBBS Soundings The love story of a young English girl brought up by an artist father; bravely outspoken on the problems of the younger generation, yet in the finest sense reticent; written with sym- pathy, understanding and sustained literary charm. $2.00 JEFFERY FARNOL The Loring Mystery A “cloak-and-sword "' romance of Eny the early nineteenth century, with a land in affing murder mystery and a private detective, Jasper Snag, who is as delightful a character ‘he Broad High. 52.00 as the famous Ancient of way. E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM The Inevitable Millionaires A sentimental comedy by “the Prince of Story-Tellers” that is as entertaining as his polite melodrama, $2.00 WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY Drag The pathetic and yet humorous story of an ambitious but soft-hearted young Vermonter whose life was almost wrecked because he let his selfish relatives—mostly his * be a drag on him. MARGARETTA TUTTLE The Cobweb How Linda MacGrath, caught in the cobweb of circumstance, finds herself matched against predatory, men and arrogant women; finds a love which seems unworthy; finds a sorrow and heartache; and by all of this is made a woman rare and lovable. $2.00 STEPHEN McKENNA An Affair of Honour in-laws""— $2. A stozy in the witty, light-comedy vein that first carried McKenna into popularity, with an ingenious plot, a charming love romance and sparkling dialogue. $2.50 COSMO HAMILTON Paradise The story of a gay and reckless Englishman, molded by war and a woman's loving intui: tion into fine manhood. $2.00 LARRY BARRETTO To Babylon What does New York do to the young man with ideals who comes there to seek his for- tune? A fascinating story of love, business and social life in that modern Babylon. $2.00 FRANCIS BEEDING The Seven Sleepers ‘The fight for possession of a document in cipher relating to a diabolical plan to bring about another European war—a story that for thrills out-Oppenheims Oppenheim’s tales of international intrigue. $2.00 B. M. BOWER Desert Brew A story of present-day bootlegging as, prac- ticed on a Western ranch, told in Bower's inimitable manner. For Sale ot All Booksellers a We have just issued an informatice illus. trated booklet entitled * Book News from Beacon Hill” which we shall be glad to send free to read. ers of LIFE on request.Write for your copy today. ACBRIGAT ere rreesj erie ACBRIGRT LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY Publishers, 34 Beacon Street, Boston ETAT TEEN OLE ILE ES ACBRIGAT™ RUBBERSET comicbooks.com