Life, 1925-12-10 · page 33 of 36
Life — December 10, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light social commentary**, not political satire. The main content is "Mrs. Pep's Diary," a gossipy society column describing a woman's day attending a luncheon, visiting the Seamen's Library, getting her hair done, and having tea with theater people (Ashley Dukes, Auriol Lee, Zoé Akins—apparent theatrical figures of the era). The tone is satirical toward upper-class social rituals and vanities. The page features multiple advertisements for luxury goods: Dunhill cigarettes (framed as gift solutions), Whiting-Adams shaving brushes, and A.A. Milne's children's book "When We Were Very Young." "Exploded Christmas Myths" is a humorous list debunking holiday clichés—that gift cigars are necessary, that Christmas trees stay attractive, that cranberry sauce is actually enjoyed, etc. The satire targets commercialized holiday conventions. Overall, this reflects 1920s-era consumer culture and upper-class social life, with gentle mockery of materialism and holiday excess.
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Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page $) great luncheon of women given by Lydia Loomis at Pierre's, and never in all my life did I hear so much general gossip and vilification, and it did strike me during the meal that if God is on the side of the heaviest battalions, the person who can talk the loudest al an edge on her adversa Thence home to collect and do up the woks I did promise Rutger Jewett to send off to the Seamen's Library, being caught by its slogan of “Send a book to sea” as well as the worthiness of the charity, and fell a-reading in so many of them that the messenger did call for them before they were wrapped and tied. Marie come to do my hair, and we both so uncertain as to whether or not the ends should be turned with the iron that we flipped a coin to de- cide, for Lord! what difference can it make, when it will probably rain any- way on the morrow? Then to Annic’s for tea, finding there Ashley Dukes, Auriol Lee and Zoé Akins, and there was much lively talk of the stage, one of the most fascinating topics in the world, methinks, but, like a fool, I did cat too many salted nuts, and arrived home in such discomfort that I was Joo card in this Gift Package of 100 Dunhill Cigarettes will solve your gift problem per- fectly....If not at your dealers, send $1.25 to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO COMPANY, Inc. Fisk Building, New York City "Why not Give the Finest?” put to bed with an electric pad on my stomach, whilst Samuel did himself exceptionally well on the guinea hen and broccoli to which I had been look- forward. Baird Leonard. BRISTLES OR BADGER HAyp When you select a Shaving Brush for its business end’ it will of course bea WHITING-ADAMS VULCAN RUBBER CEMENTED HITING-ADAMS Shaving Brushes are from selected bristles dger Hair only. The end” of ly quick. ly. Naturally the bristh y, Naturally the bristles Every heir ts permanently imbedded in bard rubber VULCAN RUBBER CEMENTED WHITING-ADAMS BOSTON G FOR Ly OF BRAINS “MADE AT KEY WEST | Exploded Christmas Myths Tuat gift deadly. That a woman can't pick out her husband's neckties with at least double the good taste that he shows, That anything approaching the al- cigars are necessarily leged “holiday spirit” infects trafic policemen and subway guards. That the majority of the citizens of the United States ever really liked cranberry sauce, That anybody ever reads the en- graved inscriptions on cards of greeting. That eating plum pudding or hot mince pie at the close of a seven- course dinner is anything less than physical torture. That a Christmas tree, two days after the holiday, isn’t the messiest and most loathsome object in the world. That, considering the fact that Christmas falls on only one of the 365 days in the year, there isn’t any Santa Claus. T. B. THe greatest treat of the holi- day season—the CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF LIFE—is now on sale at all news-stands. Have you acquired “your copy yet? Dunhill LONDON CIGARETTES Delicious lilting nonsense verse, A. A. MILNE’S WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG With the most charming drawings by E. H. Shepard . . Price $2.00 Christmas Gift Edition, $3.00 E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Sth Ave., N.Y. SICKNESS Tho nausea of travel stopped at once. No other remedy has ever re- ceived such glowing spontaneous tes- timonials of unfailing effectiveness Its use means relief and comfort. 730. & $1,30 at Drug Stores 2 ‘or direct on receipt of Price ‘The Mothersill Rediedy Co., New York comicbooks.com