Life, 1925-09-03 · page 32 of 36
Life — September 3, 1925 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with a few short humor pieces scattered between ads. The main cartoon shows a boxing trainer explaining why his champion won't fight: the fighter wants his "movie double" to box for him instead. This satirizes Hollywood's growing influence in the 1920s—even professional athletes supposedly want to avoid actual work in favor of movie fame. The "Foolish Contemporaries" section mocks **Prohibition** through a faux-naive Peruvian correspondent's "observations" about American "licker" (bootleg alcohol). The joke relies on the writer pretending not to understand that the government secretly enables bootlegging—a pointed commentary on Prohibition's obvious failures and corruption. Other brief humor pieces poke fun at marriage brokers and wealth-signaling through furniture. The **advertisements** are noteworthy for their post-WWI context: German Army field glasses sold as bargains (exploiting war reparations), suggesting the page dates to the early 1920s when such items flooded the American market.
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IN PERFECT COMFORT ‘over the mountain or into the valley below a myriad of fascinating scenes unfold to your view—if you are able to enjoy them. The.sway of the train means trainwickness—(nausea) to many. Mothersill's stops Train, Car and Sea Sickness at once, giving perfect comfort on your trip. 75¢. & $1.30. at Drug Stores 6 or direct on receipt of Price The Mothersill Remedy Co., New York “Wuat's the matter with the cham- pion?” asked the promoter. “He wants his movie double to box for him,” answered the trainer. —American Legion Weekly. MASONIC Books, Monitors, Bibles, Aprons, Jewelry’ and Lodge Supplies. Send for catalogue 5 of books and jewelry; catalogue 6 of Lodge Supplies. No obligations. REDDING & CO. (Established 1859) 9 West 23d Street, New York City GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS ' | FIELD GLASSES FREE TRIAL | 8-power $9.85 "225 them? Free triat coupons will being you ws theee genuine German War Glasses purchased at exceptionally advantageous rates of exchange. Manufactured by most prominent German op- | teal factories "Many were received direct from the dited, Reparations Commissice. Conservative Tinese setromatte day and night tenses. 40 m.m objective. Pupiliary adjustment according io, strictest military lasses Guaranteed In perfect condition. fog 9 ain pairs of thie model to date on 8 days tree trial money order for $9 85. Order your fleld glasses teday. HENDERSON BROTHERS Largest tmporters of feta glasses tn America 95 N. Federal St We have FREE TRIAL COUPON Gentlemen. Please send me on 5 days free tris! one patr } in Army Officers’ warglarses After 5. trial 1 will either return glasses or remit $9. fame... | (A Peruvian Vi One of the most strange things here [New York] is the national drink called “Licker.” As I have for a long time known and as you also have perhaps heard maybe, there is here a law called “prohibition” which forbids that one sell whiskey or chicha or beer or wine and the only thing that is allowed to be sold is licker. Even about this they are very estrict_ and it can be vended only by agents who are licensed by the police- men, These agents is called “bootleg- gers” and the govt. furnishes to them limousine automobiles to runaround and see you in and deliver there wheres. Licker costs from $6. to $8 per qt. depends on if the bootlegger conducts a Chevrolet or a Packard. The govt. is very afraid of rum and has send out the Navy to make battle to the rum- fleet because this would be competition with home industry and might put out of busyness the national drink. —"Soroche,” in The West Coast Leader (Lima). Cellarette sideboard or ocean steamer kit Is incom- Sample plete without Abbott's Hittera. Aids digestion. by mall, 25 ets. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. The Bride's Family A marriage broker on the East Side talked a bachelor into visiting a young girl who, he said, came of good family and would inherit money. Waiting in the parlor, the schatchen pointed out the excellent quality of the furniture as a testimonial to the prosperity of the pros- pect’s people. “Maybe it’s a stall, this stuff to kid me bachelor. “Who on earth would lend these low- lifes anything?” demanded the marriage broker, forgetting himself. —New York Graphic. and they borrowed along,” suggested the The Days of Real Sport One imagines the young son of Dr. W. R. Whitney, who said that a drop of water contained three billion trillion hydrogen atoms, talking it over with his chum, “My father,” he would say, “says there are three billion trillion hydrogen atoms in a drop of water.” “Pooh, that’s nothing,” the chum would retort “my father says there are fifty hundred billion quadrillion thousand atoms in a drop of water. » York World. One Way to Do It “So many automobiles! How does a pedestrian cross the street?” low and then a car wants to cross. We cross with it.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. “Tuts motion picture came clean from Hollywood.” “Is it possible ?"—Toronto Telegram. “I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, I THINK THIS ONE FITS ME BEST— 1 CAN'T GET 1T OFF MY HEAD.” —Buen Humor (Madrid). Art o. Nature All winter through, my pretense Of sunburned ankles, with her stock- ings’ hue; Now, with the sun in frequent evidence, She dips her ankles into sheaths of blue, Lady made Chill blue. When autumn comes, brown I might queen, She warns me that the autumn mode in town Is fixed al in hose of rud hehold her, but, incon ady for the shrillest green. Spring green. in London Daily oh W, Chronicle. Sidelines America—A land where druggists are short-order cooks and three-tube sc carried in cigar stores.—Detroit N FOR DANDRUFF GLOVER'S exercises an antiseptic effect on the scalp. Cleanses, Stimulates Send for GLOVER'S, HANDBOOK on thi SEYES Sun Wind ‘Busi. Cinders OF BRAINS ” AGARS wer AT KEY WEST— comicbooks.com