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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The main content includes: **"The Morals of the Jungle"** — A humorous poem contrasting animals' "uncivilized" behavior with humans' pretentious etiquette. The satirical point: humans pride themselves on social refinement (champagne, bathing, "honor"), yet wild animals simply follow natural instinct. It's social satire mocking human pretension, not animal commentary. **"If You're Waking"** — Brief comedic anecdotes (a theater actress's irritability; cooperative workers returning to jobs). These are gentle joke-column filler typical of 1920s magazines. **The bulk of the page features product advertisements** for Apollinaris water, Old Town Canoes, White Mountain refrigerators, hair-removal cream (Neet), and a **Davey Tree Surgeons testimonial** with a before/after tree photo. No political figures or serious commentary appear here. This reflects *Life* magazine's mid-1920s character as a humor and lifestyle publication, blending lightweight satire with commercial advertising.

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you mix it you make a blend more delicious than you can get in any other way. “The Queen of Table Waters” Sole Importers: A) ri Fifth Avenue at ind Street Nex lew eect Ger an “Old Town’ this summer and realize the poy of a truly fine canoe. “Old Towns” are strong, light and surprisingly steady. They are low in price too. $64 up. From dealer or factory. ,_ The 1925 catalog shows all models in full colors. It Send for your copy today. Oro Towx Canoe 1536 Middle Street, Old Town, Maine, U.S. AL ‘There ts a style for every taste and a size for every home. You buy a ifetime of perfect refrigeration whatever your choice, THE MAINE MANUPACTU NASHUA, N. Write for attracttee Science has solved the problem of removing unwanted hair pleasant- ly, without discomfort to the skin or complexion. This with NEET, a mild, dainty cream. You merely spread it on and then rinse off with clear water. That's all; the hair will be gone and the skin left refreshingly cool, ‘smooth and white! Old methods, the anwomanly razor and severe chemical preparations, have given way to this remarkable hair-removing cream which is the ac- steht matted ‘of well-groomed women Se at Drag: t stores or by mail. Mocey back fit fll to please yc. Boy now. MAREIBAL PHAR, CO,, GOT CLIVE ST., ST. LUIS, m0. LIFE CONTEMPORARIES cond = ee The Morals of the Jungle I xever know, I never shall, Why people are called bestial, Whose code of conduct seems to be Sublime in its urbanity. | The lion roars when he is full. His nails are most unbeautiful. The tiger roaming round the East, Forgets his manners at a feast. In nakedness beside his cows, The bison is content to browse. The gout, the puma, and the pig, Do nothing grand and nothing big. The antelope can have no heart In taking odds nor looking rt. The zebra scours the distant plain, Rut never drinks the best champaxne Too little rest, too little case, No unguents, and no dope to please; They do not bathe, they do not care, | What portions of the hide go bare. their laborious fates, To savage fight for food The thought of virtue and of gold Leaves all these creatures simply and mates, | Impelled by ‘Old Town Canoes" cold The sport of cvery circumst They have no wealth and no Beneath disdain, beneath regret, Devoid of social etiouette. How dainty and how far more nice Are those who feel the sacrifice Of love and honor, yet can make That sacrifice for comfort’s sake! -EOV in The Kno, Spectator. Abbott's Bitters, a stomsehte ment ofa tonic. Kample by mail, C.W, Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. every require > cts, In stamps. If You're Waking— There was an actress constantly out with road troupes who always became irate when asked a question the answer to which she considered obvious, Thus on the last night of April she left an carly call at the hotel with the girl at the telephone desk. “To catch a train?” pleasantly. “For what other reason does one leave an early call?” sone is to be Queen of ested the girl, still pleas- Courier-Journal, an asked the girl sug antly.—Lonisville By Nature “Do you really approve of the nude in art?” “Yes, T was born that way.” —Colifornia Pelican. Tur. strike of the Co-operative work. ers in Lancashire was settled the other day and hundreds of men were thrown into work.—Punch. This tree is one of a dozen fine oaks on the estate of James Bliss Coombs, Sound Beach, Conn. 25 years ago |this would have been a miracle In 1920 this tree was badly de- cayed and in serious danger. Davey Tree Surgeons treated it skilfully and filled the cavity with cement by the Davey sectional method. Today the tree is al- most healed over by new bark and the tree is in perfect condition. Every tree treated on the Coombs place is equally perfect. Twenty-five years ago it would have been a miracle to achieve such results even in one case. Today Davey Tree Surgeons do it regularly with tens of thou- sands of trees every year. Davey Tree Surgeons are local to you—anywhere between Boston and Kansas City, be- tween Canada and the Gulf. Write or wire Kent, Ohio. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY, INC. 182 City Bank Building, Kent, Ohio Attach this coupon to your letterhead and mail today THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO.,, Inc., 182 City Bank Bldg., os. Kent, Ohio YF Gentlemen: Without cost or obligation on my part, please have your local rep- resentative examine my trees and advise me as to their condition and need. JOHN DAVEY Father of Tree Surgery comicbooks.com