Life, 1926-01-07 · page 32 of 40
Life — January 7, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for Edgeworth tobacco, framed as customer testimonials. The main "content" is a letter from Mr. A.H. Kirkland praising Edgeworth's consistency—he's delighted the company has never changed its product formula. The Edgeworth Club supposedly has a rule protecting the tobacco's "quality and flavor." The satirical section is **"Our Foolish Contemporaries,"** which mocks the trend toward prohibition amendments. It presents sleep as an "intoxicant" and suggests society will soon discover sleep is dangerous and campaign to prohibit it—a tongue-in-cheek commentary on overzealous reform movements. The poem's author (James J. Montague) satirizes how people discover vice in innocent things and demand regulation. A brief gossip item about "Mellie and the Vanities" mentions nightclub socialite activity. The page reflects 1920s advertising culture and anti-prohibition sentiment disguised as humor.
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30 LIFE “Never change it”’ cautions satisfied pipe-smoker ve | Apparently, Mr. Kirkland is unfamiliar | with certain rules of the Edgeworth | Club. | One aw adopted unanimously | years ago—and never amended—is | follows: “The quality and flavor of Edgeworth tobacco shall never be changed.” However, we feel certain that after reading Mr. Kirkland’s interesting let ter the Club will elect him promptly to membership, as he requests. McKeesport, Penna. Larus & Bro. C Richmond, Vir Gentlemen: A cheap watch will lie to us continu- ally about the very stuff life is made of, and poor tobacco will steal what is left of it. wires more time to upset our than it does t t place. This is ex ‘ard to smoking tobace sonable argu- long ago by adopting orth is exactly right, 80 I caution the great cornpip never attempt to change it in any se for I believe I would detect it. I have a certain regard for my pipe, which I do not care to abuse. Very sincerely yours A. H. Kirkland. P. S.—Will you take my name into the next Edgeworth meeting ? Let us send you free samples of Edgeworth so that you may put it to the pipe test. If you like the samples, you'll like Edge worth wherever and whenever you buy| it, for it never changesin quality. Write your name and ad- dress to Larus & Brother Company, 16M S. 21st Street, Rich- mond, Va. We'll be grate- ful for the name and address of your tobacco dealer, too, if you care to add them. Edgeworth is sold in various sizes to suit the needs and means of all pur- chasers. Both Edgeworth Plug Slice and Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed are packed in small, pocket-size packages, in handsome humidors holding a pound, and also in several handy inbetween sizes. To Retail Tobacco Merchants: If your jobber cannot supply you with Edgeworth, Larus & Brother Company will gladly send you prepaid by parcel post a one- or two-dozen carton of any size of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Edge- worth Ready-Rubbed for the same price you would pay the jobber. FOOLISA ONTEMPO ARIES Another Impending Amendment (Sleep has been tors to be found by investiga but a form of intoxication.) If we had known in early youth, When conscience ruled our every act, That sleep, though kindly, soft and sooth, Was but a drug, in point of fact— If we had known that when we slept t stake, For righteousness, we might have kept Our reputation was Awake At twenty-one, had we been told That sleep, like whisky, gin and suc Upon the strongest will lays hold With a remorseless, cruel clutch, And hounds the victim till he's dead We should have worried, we admit, And very likely we'd have said: We'll quit!” But now the habit is too strong, And we have lost the power to fight; Although convinced that it is wrong, We sleep eight hours every night, And even when folks come to call narcotic creep and often fall We feel the drea Along our spine, Asleep. But this will pass, for very soon When sleep, though Is proved to be a very boon To sybaritic chaps like me, As well as infants in the crib, Crusades against it will be led And it will swiftly be prohib: Ite! James J. isonous it be, Monta, in Herald-Tribune For busy men and women. sample by mail, 25 ets taco we Md Mellie and the Vanities It remained for Earl Carroll to get the break on Mellie Dunham's visit to the town the other evening. his fiddle and played Julius Tannen gagged between selections Mellie brought a tune or so, and Mel witnessed the show from one of those ringside tables, and was kept Margie Bolton, one of Car rolls charming hostesses. “How did he take to the show?” this department asked Margie. amused by “He loved it,” she replied. “He at everything, even the nudes.” —New York Graphic laughed Revived A London cabman, unable to pass a bus, was inflamed to paroxysms of unthink able objurgation. “Oh, sir,” said the driver of the bus in tones of reverence Will yer kindly tell me where ye're preaching next Sunday I should so like to ‘ear yer at yer best.” —Boston Transcript. “that ‘was lovely! Paxet-Doctor (to patient, @ taxi Well, what's the matter? 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