Life, 1925-05-21 · page 36 of 40
Life — May 21, 1925 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor content**, typical of Life magazine's format. The main visual advertises **Fatima Turkish Cigarettes** with the tagline "What a whale of a difference just a few cents make"—emphasizing that a small price difference yields superior quality. The text content includes: - **"Never Gnu Anything"**: A pun-based poem mocking the gnu (wildebeest) for being born with a horn but being useless otherwise. - **"Fairy Story"**: A satirical tale of a baseball player who retires with only merchandise prizes (shoes, watches, suits)—implying professional athletes of this era earned minimal salaries and depended on product endorsements rather than wages. - **"DX"**: A brief joke comparing radio tuning to fishing—radio listeners can't claim "the big ones got away." - **"Why I Like Life"**: A schoolgirl's essay praising the magazine itself. The page also contains period advertisements for travel sickness remedies and **Forhan's toothpaste**, promoting gum health—a relatively new marketing concern of the era.
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C What a whale of a difference just a few cents make Never Gnu Anything Tue funniest thing in the zoo Is the little horned horse called the gnu; For although he is born With a practical horn, There ain't a blame thing he can do. TRAVEL COMFORT Stops_and prevents the nausea of Sea, Train and Car Sickness. You can’ travel anywhere in any con- veyance in comfort through its use. 75¢., & $1.30 at Drag Stores 3 or dire? on receipt of Price The Mothersill Remedy Co., New York SEASICK US Why I Like Lire (A Schoolgirl’s Essay on a Subject Dear to Our Hearts) T tikk life because I don’t want to die. I like Lire because it lessens my chances of dying of a sour old a li one reads Lire every month they will live for a life-time and never get old. If any one does not know what Lire is, it is this, a good little magazine just full of fun and good jokes from cover to cover. Some say, a good laugh or two daily and you never grow old. I am only fourteen, but I don’t intend to get much older in some ways. By the time I am fifty, I hope I can laugh as well as L can now. I don’t say 1 don't like other magazines, because I do, immensely; but Lire is as good as the rest, if not better, with its stories, jokes and adver- tisements. If you want to live a long, happy life, why get Lire. B.S. Fairy Story Once upon a time there was a baseball player who had grown up with the game. He dreaded the day when he should have to retire as he had nothing saved for his old age Then, one day, at a crit period in the game, he knocked the hall over the fence. When he took inventory of the prizes he had received for his homer he found he had: Six pairs of shoes. Four gold watches, Three leather trunks. Two complete suits An assorted lot of hats, caps, shirts ties, ete. With this stock he started a haber dashery store and lived happily eve after. DX Tue man who compares fishing for radio stations with whipping a stream for trout important point of difference: an angler for radio stations never can claim that the big ones get away. overlooks one | cA signal of trouble ~ tender and bleeding gums S the soil nour- shes the tree- roors the gums noursh the teeth. And as the twee decays f you bare the tee-roots, so do This condition is com- mon. It is_known as Pyorrhea. Four out of five people who are over forty suffer from « Fochan's Prepar does prevent uf in ume and used con- sistenily. So Forhan's protects the tooth at the woth base which unprotectedby enamel. On top of this For- 's preserves gums in their perk, normal, vital condition. Use st daily and thew fered tasue-structure will vigorously support the teeth. They will not foosen. Newher will the mouth premature- ly fatten through ce- ceding gums. Further, your gums will ner Gums and teeth abike will be sounder. and your teeth wall be scientifically pob ished, too. + shrinkage has already set 0. Wp start using Forhan’s 11h and consul a den tust immediately for Ip special treatment. In 35e and 60¢ tubes at all druggists Ip inthe United States Formats of B3-Porbaa,D.0.8. FORHAN CO. ‘New York Forkan's, Lid Montreal comicbooks.com