Life, 1925-04-16 · page 29 of 36
Life — April 16, 1925 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes editorial content with period advertising reflecting 1920s consumer anxieties. **The Main Cartoon**: The top-left image shows a couple at what appears to be a social gathering. The accompanying advertisement ("Is your husband too stout?") uses shame-based marketing to sell Marmola weight-loss tablets—targeting wives to pressure husbands into slimness. This reflects 1920s anxieties about modern body standards and marriage dynamics, with the implicit message that a woman's social status depends on her husband's appearance. **Mrs. Pep's Diary**: The serialized humor column depicts upper-middle-class social life—bridge parties, restaurant lunches, motion pictures—capturing contemporary concerns: fear of younger generations' slang (references WWI soldiers' language), household management details, and women's leisure activities during the modernizing 1920s. **Right-side content**: "Dry Mouths encourage tooth decay" is a genuine dental health advisory promoting proper oral hygiene, while "The Flapper at Home" offers interior decorating advice—both reflecting Jazz Age modernity and consumer consciousness. The overall effect captures 1920s preoccupations with appearance, consumption, and social conformity.
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* LIFE - Is your husband too stout? Has he taken on unnecessary weight? Do your friends make remarks about it— not intending to hurt your feelings, of course, but eabarrassing you nevertheless? Thousands of men and women have found excess weight easy to remove. Why let your husband suffer from it? Marmola Tablets—without exercises or diets—will bring back his natural healthy figure. Recommend these tablets to him, Get a box for him. Once he uses them he will al- ways be thankful that you urged him to get slender. It is your duty to sce that he keeps slender like other successful men, All drug stores have them—one dollar a box. Or they will be sent in plain wrav- pet, postpaid, by the Marmola Co., 1843 jeneral Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich. MARMOI ont (Ly Se asant Wai NORTH CAPE PARTY A few places still open in a select small party leaving May 9 for two months’ tour. Northern Europe, Paris and London, Scandinavia and fortnight’s yachting cruise to the North Cape and Midnight Sun. 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Orv Town Canot Co. 1534 Middle Street, Old Town, Maine, U.S. A. ——————— Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 20) presence in New York, Because, quoth she, if 1 did, she would arrive at ten o'clock in the morning to take me some place | do not want to go—and she still drives behind horses! Then to play bridge at Marge Boothby’s, finding there a great company. It’s a real party, quoth Marge, because I had to borrow chairs. Breakiast betimes, and out a-walking through the town according to my new resolu- tion for daily constitutionals, but Lord! I am so terrified of urchins upon roller skates, who are unusually abundant at this season, that I doubt if the wear and tear upon my nervous system will be offset by any benefit which may accrue from the exercise. To lurcheon at an inn with the Bonfoeys of Quincy, finding there Elsie and Mrs. Janis, and did relate how at “What Price Glory?” a woman behind her had ex- claimed, O my! do you suppose that our dear boys actually used such language during the war? and how she had felt like turning about and saying, Yes, madam, and you sound as if you might have knitted some of the socks that made them do so. On the way home, having two hours with nought to do, I did drop into a motion picture theatre, but could not enjoy in fullest measure what I saw on the screen through wondering whether I had cautioned Katie to chill the endive. Which proves that it is not the sorrow of life which does for us, but the machinery. Emily Irving to see me this morning, telling me that after dieting two weeks she had a wonderful dream last night that all the models at Maxon’s were too big for her, and pressing me to accom- pany her to put her fantasy to the test, but after regarding her figure silently I engaged her in such gossipy discourse that she did not again think of her purpose in coming to town until the hour was unsuitable for carrying it out. Stick to the lamb chops and pine- apple and come again in a fortnight, I cautioned her....The Bannings for din- ner, George and Sam carrying on at such a great rate afterwards that Edith and T could not settle them to bridge, through the fact that G. had brought along a bottle of Jamaica rum which somebody had given him. But when I quizzed Sam as to the foundation for his antics, he said, Didn't you say that rice we had for dinner was wild? Baird Leonard. The Flapper at Home Interior Decorator: What color is your daughter's room now? Mrs. Hicks: Oh, it’s always blue with smoke. Dry Mouths encourage tooth decay To keep your teeth safe you must keep your mouth glands working HE mouth glands of prac- tically everyone today are greatly weakened. Before our soft, cooked foods are able to excite a normal flow of saliva, they are swal- lowed. Unexercised, the mouth glands dry up. And without the alkaline fluids of the mouth glands, the acids that cause decay inevi- tably collect. The effect of ordinary brush- ing of the teeth is over in five minutes. More and more, men and women are learning to use the tooth paste which gently aids the mouth glands to pro- tect the teeth. ror Pebeco acts directly on the salivary glands. It completely restores their full alkaline flow. The acids of decay are neutralized as fast as they form and your teeth are kept not only white but safe. Send for a trial tube of Pebeco. Made only by Pebeco, Ine., N. Y. Sole Dis- . Canadian Ltd., 10 : H. F. Ritchie & Co., Toronto. At all druggists. 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