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This page is primarily **advertising**, with small satirical humor pieces interspersed. The main advertisements promote **Dunlop Golf Balls**, **Marmola Tablets** (a weight-loss product), and **Apollinaris bottled water**. The satirical content includes brief jokes, such as one about a **foot-ease product cleverly placed near poetry verses** about cramped metrical "feet"—a pun on poetry terminology. Another piece mocks **Chinese government safety campaigns** using moral tales to prevent jaywalking. A joke about a magistrate involves a child claiming a stolen tortoise "followed" him home. The **Marmola ad is notably problematic by modern standards**, promoting extreme thinness and linking bobbed hairstyles (fashionable in the 1920s) to being underweight—reflecting era-specific beauty standards that would be considered unhealthy today. The overall tone reflects 1920s American consumer culture and casual, lightweight humor typical of *Life* magazine's satirical approach.

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Makea “HOLE-IN-ONE” with a Dunlop PRIZE of a handsome trophy case goes to every golfer who drops a Dunlop Golf Ball into the cup with one mighty drive from the tee. Dunlop Golf Balls aren’t bought or sold to make ‘tholes-in-one”’, but Dun- lop’s extra distance and steadier direction often makes the difference be- tween a ‘2’’ and a “‘1’’. Your Club ‘‘Pro”’ will get you the trophy. Let him send in your lucky ball. $1.00 each Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co. Golf Ball Department 125th Street at 12th Avenue New York For the Limping Bard The other week some verses from this department were reprinted back among the advertising pages of oh, a | very well-known magazine. And the makeup came out in such a manner that at the bottom of the verses appeared a one-line advertisement, to wit: “In a pinch, use Foot-Ease.” We had never thought of it before, but that is a hot tip for poets, Often, in writing poetry, a foot gets crowded into | a line where there is scant room for it. At such times the foot is pinched, there is no denying that. A good brand of foot-ease, sprinkled liberally through a stanza, would be a great boon. S. K., in Spokane Spokesman-Revier. Ina Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Safety Week in China Professional story tellers, hired by the government, are spreading warnings on the Shanghai streets to cure the Chinese of jay-walking. One of these stories follows: “Now the swift motor car and the clanging street car are just like tigers, and if you do not take care to watch the policeman at the corner and obey his signals you will not live to grow up and acquire many sons, but will be killed, and your sons, too, so that your ancestral tablets will be untended. The road is like a tiger’s mouth; from its center keep | away."—Indianapolis Star. | Not Guilty | The magistrate regarded the urchin with a look in which sympathy for his sad plight and disapproval of his mis- deed were equally blended. “My dear boy,” he exclaimed, “what ever possessed you to steal the tortoise ?” “I didn’t steal it,” was the unexpected retort. “It followed me home.” Answers (London) |. Teaspoontul of Abbott’ a delightful breakfast tonic, cts. I stamps, C. W. Abbott Sam} &Co., Battin Imperence! A resident of Stoke Newington, ad- vertising for a domestic servant, an- nounces that there is no washing, no cooking, no windows, no knives, no boots, no young children, own bedroom and sitting-room with wireless. He will have to do better than that—Punch. Cox: The radio will never take the place of newspapers. Dexsex: Why? Cox: You can't start a fire radio set.—Science and Invention, with a Tue statistician’s version: speak louder than words. —New Orleans Times-Picayune. Fractions is brought to you from the spring bot- tled only with its own natural gas. | “The Queen of Table Waters” Sole Importers: Apollinaris. tae eg Firth Avenue at 42nd Street, New coi “Oproxtunity knock door ?” “No, but I'm on his mailing list.” —Louisville Courier-Journal, ever at your 7 You must be slender lo have hobbed hair~ For the shingle bob or the straight bob, you must havea youthful silhouette. One simply can’t be stout—or even overweight. How thankful we should be that there is one pleasant method of taking off weight. Noexercises or diets—just use Marmola Tab- | ( lets (thousands of mea and women each yearregainhealthy, slender figures this way). Have you ever tried them? Many of your | ¢ slender, vivacious friends use Marmola Tablets, All drug stores have them— one dollar abox. Or they will be sent in plain wrap- Pet postpaid, by the Marmola Co., 1843 | enctal Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich. MARMOLA Prescription ablets Nhe Pleasant Day teReduce comicbooks.com