Life, 1925-07-23 · page 33 of 36
Life — July 23, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The dominant features are: **Advertisements:** Forhan's toothpaste (gum health), Allen's Foot-Ease powder, Barbasol shaving cream, and a pedigreed collie dog breeder. **Satirical Content:** The short pieces under "Life and Letters" include: - A humorous anecdote about a journalist whose interview with God gets rejected by his editor as unprintable "rot," mocking sensationalist journalism and editorial priorities - "The House Divided"—domestic humor about marital disagreements over spending - "Ignorance"—a brief joke implying a woman doesn't know how to drive The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and light social commentary typical of Life magazine's satirical-but-mainstream humor. References to Prohibition, the Scopes trial, and "bobbed hair" ground it in that era's debates.
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Watch your gums — bleeding a sign of trouble S sappers mine the enemy's the normal gum line and produces tooth decay in its most drain into the system and cause many or. | ganic diseases of mid-life thea; uvely prevents hea if used in | time and used con sustently Forhan's hardens the gums. It con serves the gums that bug the teeth and them firm. It touches the funda- mentals of tooth health in fact, And all this while you are cleans: Life and Letters (Continued from page 21) crossword puzzle craze. It contains fifty leading limericks which the reader must work out from the key which is thoughtfully supplied by the publishers. It contains also Poe's “The Gold Bug,” which was an awfully good idea on the part of somebody. There is a limerick on the cover which will give you no trouble at all, To wit: “My girl is so dense I must tutor her, Her brains grow minute and minuterer, She once told our neighbor That manual labor Was a good-looking Florentine fruiterer.” Baird Leonard. PEDIGREED SHOW COLLIES ‘The safest dog for children, a delightful companion of adults, will herd your stock, and guard your property. Write collie is the ace of Dogdom. ee 4 ~~. ter Groves, Me. Please send FREE booklet. Name... Address. > LIFE - “And God Said—"’ (Continued from page 7) eight-column head which I knew it would be given. My first glance, however, showed that they had not used an eight-column head. More to my surprise, I failed to find the story even on the first page. In dismay I turned quickly page after page; and found my story nowhere, not a paragraph, not a sentence, not a word! I could not understand. I rushed off in a cab to the office, and to Steve. “What in thunder—” I exclaimed, bursting in on him— “did you do with my story?” “What story Already his mind was cleared and absorbed in the details of a new sensa- tion, and he did not remember. “My interview with God,” I re- minded him. For the first time in my carcer I saw on Steve's face, meant for me and meant to wither me, the expression of contempt he reserves for the hopeless bungling of cubs and boobs. “That rot!” he exclaimed. “Rot?” “Rubbish, rot, slush — about stars, seeds, spirits!” “But what God?” “What would I have?” Steve jumped up and shook both fists at me at once. “What would I have? You ask me that! What would I have? I would have the scoop of the age. I would have God's ideas about Prohibition, di- vorce, the Scopes case, bobbed hair, the exact temperature of hell.” Steve said a lot more. But all I re- member was the sentence that seared my soul. “There weren't ten words in your story fit to print.” The House Divided He Says I rotp the little woman, “Buy your- self a new suit and don’t spare e pense. Nothing's too good for you.” She Says Getting something out of that man is like wringing water out of a stone. I finally had to go and buy it behind his back out of the house money. And T'll never hear the end of it. would you have—from Dz. B. Ignorance Driver: My wife never rides in the back seat. Howker: Doesn't she know how to drive? Coming The News-stand Number of Lire Watch for it! Th Foot-Bath Allen’s Foot=-Ease THE ANTISEPTIC, HEALING POWDER FOR THE FEET Takes the friction from the shoe, relieves the pain of corns, bunions, calluses and sore spots, freshens the feet and gives new vigor. MAKES TIGHT OR NEW SHOES FEEL EASY At night, when your feet are tired, sore and swollen from excessive dancing or walking, sprinkle Allen's Foot-Ease in the foot-bath and enjoy the bliss of feet without an ache. Over One Million five hundred thousand younds of powder for the feet were used by our Army and Navy during the war. | Trial package and a Foot-Ease Walking Doll FREE. Address, aa a ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE, Le Roy, N. Y. In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE Shoes UGGESTED song for a national organ- tion of filling-station proprietors— Brighten the Corner Where You Are.” Takes the Fight out of the Stiffest Beard Barbasol is the World’s Champion beard tamer. Just spread it through the stubble and shave. No brush. No rub-in. No after-smart. Try Barbasol—3 times—ac- cording to directions. 35c and 65c tubes. The 7 Barbasol Y Co. 7 Indianapolis, 7 Ind. / Please mail me your Free Trial he Tube of For Modern Shaving comicbooks.com