Life, 1925-10-22 · page 68 of 74
Life — October 22, 1925 — page 68: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and humor columns**, not political cartoons. The content includes: **Main Advertisement**: Gastrogen Tablets (digestive aid) dominates the left side, with a detailed sales pitch explaining how the product neutralizes stomach acid without over-alkalizing. **Humor Sections** ("Our Foolish Contemporaries"): - A anecdote about a man repeatedly kicked off a train by a conductor, claiming he'll reach Constantinople if his constitution permits—satirizing absurd persistence. - A hospital joke about a theatrical man who's been in six hospitals, mocking hypochondria. - A note on Sir Edmund Gosse's golden wedding, contrasting his father's indifference to his birth (1849) with modern celebration—gentle literary humor. - Commentary on Japanese merchants reading Chinese documents but struggling with spoken Chinese—mocking cultural/linguistic confusion. - A joke about winning a limerick contest. **Sidebar advertisements**: Dunhill cigarettes, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and Cortez Cigars. The page reflects **1920s consumer culture** and light satirical commentary on contemporary social absurdities.
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They stop digestive distress —but not the digestive process IGESTIVE distress is most D often the result of ex- cessive acidity of the stomach. And to relieve heart- burn, flatulence and gas it is necessary to overcome this ex- cessive acidity. Alkalines such as bicatbo- nateof sodawillcombatacidity —yes. But all too often, they tetarddigestion.For,unlessyou take exactly the right amount, they leave the stomach with an alkaline residue. But your stomach must be slightly acid to digest your food. Gastrogen Tablets are free from this objection The minute you swallow one or two Gastrogen Tablets they go to work to neutralize the ab- normal acidity. But that done, they stop, You can eat a pound of them—they can’t make your stomach alkaline. The surplus Passes out of your system with- out change. It is then a simple matter fornature to restore the slight balance of acidity so necessary for good digestion. Gastrogen Tablets are mild, safe, effective and convenient. They are pleasant-tasting. And for sweetening the breath they can hardly be excelled. Your druggist has them inhandy pocket tins of 15 tablets for 20c, also in cabinet-size bottles of 60 tablets for 60c. If you wish to try jem before you them, send the coupon for free in: packet of 6 tablets. © Bristol-Myers Co , 1925 ! e LIFE - OUR FOOLISHA CONTEMPORARIES A Revived At the station of Karagath, before Adrianople, the conductor, finding Isaac without cither ticket or moncy, grabbed him by the arm and put him off the train with a well-placed kick. At the next station he found Isaac again and repeated the expulsion, ac- centuating the force of the gesture. At the third station the conductor was completely astounded to find Isaac yet again, Bending low, Isaac attempted to jump off quickly enough to escape at least part of the violence of the attack. “How far do you think you're going to get like this?” asked the conductor. “As far as Constantinople,” replied Isaac humbly, “if my constitution will only stand it. Rire (Paris), The Hospital Circuit A theatrical man who is at St. Luke's Hospital was visited the other day by one of his friends, who had just re- turned to town. “How long have you asked the visitor. “About a week—but that's nothing,” replied the patient, “I've been tn six hospitals since I've seen yo “Who's doing your bool the visitor, —New York Evening World. been here?” ig?” asked Fer busy men and women—Abbott's Bittern, a de- lightfus tente and. lnvigorator—eampte by mail. 25 cts COW abbott & Co. Baltimore, Md. Memoranda The recent celebration of the golden wedding of Sir Edmund Gosse, the noted British literary man, caused a consider- able stir throughout England. This would probably have surprised Sir Edmund's father, the late Philip Henry Gosse, the eminent zodlogist. In his diary for 1849, the elder Gosse made this quiet entry: “E, delivered of a son. Re- ceived green swallow from Jamaica.” —Argonaut. Pidgin Pi “A Japanese merchant therefore has. this advantage that be can read most any Chinese document. But the spoken lanfuafe is buite a different matter and it is a fact that may not be generally known that the Japanese as a class (meaning thore who try to. speak Chinese) cannot who try to speak Chinese cannot the majority of European and Ameri= can missionaries do."—Chinese Paper. We didn't know it anyhow. —Punch. “Littte thoughts.” “Hub! You must take me for a cheap skate—I'm studying up a limerick to win a $10,000 prize."—Florida Times-Union. boy, a penny for your Ice cream has been shipped success- y by parcel post. It says on it, prob- t Delivered in Five Days, Never Mind."—Detroit News. ~/ Expensive?—Why no, they are only a quarter for twenty! ‘Why, not Smoke the ™ Finest? Dunhill LONDON CIGARETTES 5¢ FOR TWENTY ’o + oC had evenvweth Laughable Ife had come on the stage to show his talent...a new artist...an unknown... and they laughed. Surely his “show was not hopeless? He made an effort to speak, but they simply howled at him.... Then the curtain dropped. The deputy comedian was a huge success. —Pearson's Weekly (London). A Health Builder HOSTETTER’S Celebrated Stomach Bitters is a wholesom: tonic. Keeps the stomach in good condition and improves the FOR OF BRAINS )07 IGARS -MADE-AT KEY WEST MEN comicbooks.com