Life, 1925-08-27 · page 32 of 36
Life — August 27, 1925 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and humor content** rather than political cartooning. The main elements are: **Left side:** A tree-care advertisement from the Davey Tree Expert Company, using a diseased tree photograph to warn about trees dying from malnutrition or thirst—a straightforward commercial appeal with a mail-in coupon. **Center:** A section titled "Our Foolish Contemporaries" collecting humorous anecdotes and poems from various newspapers. These include light social satire: a poem about women's waistline fashions rising and falling, anecdotes about William Jennings Bryan's strict political orthodoxy, an elevator operator losing his job, and a professor's dry observation about mutual back-scratching among critics. **Right side:** Advertisements for Ingram's shaving cream and Mothersill's seasickness remedy. The humor is gentle and topical rather than pointed—mostly poking fun at social foibles, fashion trends, and journalistic pretension. Nothing here requires substantial historical context beyond recognizing Bryan as a famous political figure.
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rates an extreme case This picture illu Is hunger or thirst killing your trees? Look at the tops of your trees. Are the leaves thin and yellow- ish? Are they undersized? Are they inclined to turn brownish and curl up? Are the uppermost parts of the trees thinner than the rest? Are there little dead branches showing at the tops of the trees? These signs are unmistak- able evidence of trouble. It is practically certain that such a tree is dying from either hunger or thirst or both. The tree is a living thing. It requires food, and it must have water. Under semi-artificial conditions, the soil is gradually exhausted of its food elements. Such a tree must be fed, for exactly the same reason that a good farmer fertilizes his fields. Get the ad- vice of Davey Tree Surgeons quickly. They are local to you. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO.,INC. 255 City Bank Building, Kent, Ohio Valuable booklet sent free | —mail coupon THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., Inc., 255 City Bank Bldg., Kent, Ohio JOHN DAVEY Father of Tree Surgery Reg. U.S. Pat. OF. Gentlemen: Please send me your booklet, “First Aid to Starving Trees.” Name Street and number. City LIFE fe] co ONTEMPORARIES eS Equatorial Relativity (The waist-line is creeping up again.) There is a tide in the affairs of women, Inconstant as vicissitude of taste, An ebb and flow I would aspire to hymn in A pxan on the waist. There is a barometric glass of fashion Where anti-cyclones and depressions show Mercurial change that marks the ruling passion In waistbands high or low. Both tide and glass, the prophets say, are rising, Perchance again to overshoot the norm, Or, evermore the human lines revising, To make had shape good form. —A. W., in London Daily Chronicle. Ina Pinch, use ALLEN'’S FOOT-EASE All or Nothing! Of true stories about the late William Jennings Bryan the most characteristic comes to us from a close friend of the family. In 1806, when Mr. Bryan was Preparing for his free-silver campaign, he examined a certain politician for a place as committeeman. “Do you believe in 16 10 12" asked the Great Commoner. *Yes, but of course about it Then you're not the said Mr, Bryan, I'm not a damn man for me!” closing the interview, Chicago Daily News. The Elevator Editor A co n in the office of a downtown newspaper was let out last week after ten years « One of the editors met him on the corner and remarked that he had missed him. “What happened to you?" he asked “Ob, the newspaper business is all shot to pieces, and I left it flat,” lift expert from Harlem, —New ds clevator service. explained the York Graphic Glass of Sorta with tablespoontul Abbott's Bitters good tonic and palatable. ample Bitters by mal Ete'in stamps. CW. Abbott & Con Baltimore, Md. The Log-Rollers A professor invited to sit in at a daily luncheon of critics, columnists and dram- atists remarked to his host : “This must be a great place for mutual appreciation.” “Quite the contrary. is strictly individual.” —New York Evening World. The appreciation Teacner: What is a creditor? Younc Purit: A man who must be told that my father is not at home. —Humoristické Listy (Prague). WY Cool Shaves for Hot Days ON'T start these warm sum- mer days with a burning, smarting skin. Use Ingram’s Therapeutic Shaving Cream and enjoy a quick, cool, comfortable shave. Its refreshing after effect lasts all day long. Z — S= It takes the wire out of wiry beards and stops shaving irritation. See how much better you'll look and feel when you use it. If your druggist cannot supply you send 50¢ aati blue jar hac con tains six months of shaving com- fort. Or send two cent stamp for sample. Frederick F. Ingram Co. Established 1885 1438 Tenth St. Detroit, Mich. Also Windsor, Canada Made particularly 7 = ngram's for tender skins erapeutic Shaving Cream, (TL Symptoms Oxo Lapy (hard of hearing): Well, I think your Bert ought to sce a doctor— comin’ out in spots. Tue Niece in spots, spats Oto Laov: Well, see a doctor.—Punch, I didn’t say ‘e come out aunt. [said 'e come out in anyhow, ‘e ought to > Casey pleaded not guilty toa charge of fightin’? “He did not!” retorted Mrs. Casey proudly. “He pleaded not present.” —American Legion Weekly First Savesman: Are you broke? Srcoxp Satesmax: No. Just out of commission —Oklahoma Whirlwind. ‘The nausea of Sea, Train and Car Sickness promptly relieved. Expe rienced travelers all testify to its positive action. 25 years in use. 73°. & $1.50.at Drug Stores ct om receipt of Price The Mothersill Remecy Co., New York comicbooks.com