Life, 1925-11-05 · page 6 of 50
Life — November 5, 1925 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. The left side features a large ad for the "Franklin Console," a mahogany radio-phonograph combination priced at $75-$115 (complete with console table). It's marketed as a "Freshman Masterpiece" with "striking lines and vigorous proportions." The right side contains two distinct items: 1. **"Tonic"** — a humorous poem about a middle-aged woman reflecting on maintaining her youthful appearance and spirits despite motherhood and domestic duties. 2. **"Keeping Up with Clarence"** — a brief satirical piece mocking employment agencies and a young man named Clarence whose mother obsessively manages his career and public image, even clipping newspaper articles about him. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and family dynamics rather than political commentary.
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+ LIFE - 4 Striking Lines and eh I'm Thirty, Vigorous Proportions A 2nd Le We And I've never been known to be flirty When out on the highways I roam; New and Improved : But nevertheless, I must add, I Find life is a trifle more syect R ES Hi MAN When men-folks still give me the glad eye As I pass on my way down the M E ; street. * If 1 were addressed or molested I know how enraged I would be— I'd have the offender arrested For making advances to me. But when with a weary and sad cy I gaze in the mirror, forsooth And then a man gives me the glad cye I feel I've recovered my Youth! When, worn with devotion to duty And feeling a hundred or more I hear a man say, “Oh, you Cutie! Of course it’s a thing I deplore But I do not exactly feel bad, I Remark to myse I, you 1 While Somebody gives me the glad eye There's life in the old lady yet! Keeping Up with Clarence “LT wisn you'd call up an e ment agency and get yourself a of assistants,” said Grover Cleveland Smith, President of the First, S and Third National Bank. “My | has become a plunging half-back I want them to cut his notices tures out of the newspapers. You can tell the applicants that the job won't be temporary because my daughter intcuts i The FRANKLIN CONSOLE ' to be a swimming champion next year and we'll probably just keep then: om is a dignified picce of furniture, built entirely till the children are married and out a of the limelight. of carefully selected five-ply genuine mahogany “If Thad known Clarence was gi in a two-tone effect of soft and alluring beauty. to make rotogravure in college I'd have subscribed to a clipping bureau but he Tt Le Cotmposed of Two Separate seemed perfectly normal until just re- and Distinct Units Qvorlids cently. Now they say he’s the greatest {1} the actual receiving set with built-in troken-field renner that ever play 1a loud speaker. Ri = saxophone. His team will go to the Pacific Coast for a post-season game if the coach decides there is enough publicity in it. “You'd better see the office suppl people, too, and ask them to send in Write for illustrated booklet (in seven colors) = two or three new filing cases. Clare ae describing our entire line of radio receivers, y and his mother will be furious if we 7. FRESHMAN DEALE! don't take good care of the clippin BoriSale"by:- Authorized mt D RS Only T'll want these new girls to go to the Chas.freshman 0. Inc. movies every night to see if he’s in Radiol Recetvers and\e Parts j the news reels, too. He writes they FRESHMAN BUILDING ) are holding camera practice every doy 240-248 West 40TH ST~NEW YORK.NY : so as to be in form for the big games. CHICAGO OFFICE —— 2626 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, : They don’t expect to lose a Sunday edition all season.” hk LUN Oy ail ls, if {2} the console cabinet with compartments for batteries, eliminator, charger and other accessories, not a single wire be- ing visible. McC. H. comicbooks.com