Life, 1926-02-11 · page 36 of 40
Life — February 11, 1926 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and light entertainment content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: **"The Value of Experience"** - A sentimental fairy tale about a boy aspiring to be a novelist. His father takes him traveling worldwide to gather material for adventure stories. The moral: the boy repays his father's investment by selling his first book, "Her Passionate Hour." This reflects early 20th-century genteel values about education and filial gratitude. **"Beauty Hint"** - A darkly humorous anecdote about an "ugly duckling" office girl who attempts suicide but accidentally shoots her boss instead. She then becomes beautiful enough for Hollywood—satirizing the magazine's own superficiality about female appearance. **Surrounding Advertisements** include Barbasol shaving cream, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Kemp's Balsam cough remedy, and Horlick's Malted Milk—typical period patent medicines and toiletries. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and conventional morality rather than political commentary.
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Sif lass NTERTAINMENT for every hour and every mood is provided at the Vinoy Park Hotel, the magnifi- cent new hotel on beautiful Tampa Bay. Days are happy with play in a semi-tropical out-of-doors; evenings sparkle with gaiety. . . . The Vinoy Park Hotel accommodates five hundred guests with every comfort and convenience. Exquisite appointments, e: cellent cuisine, “Service with a Smile.” Paul White- man’s Vinoy Park Hotel Orchestra. Management: FRANK H. ABBOTT & SON Direction of KARL P. ABBOTT For reservations or booklet, address: ‘SVINOY PARK HOTEL he ST. PETERSBURG y, FLORIDA “The Old Razor was 0.K. after all” Just needed Barbasol to produce a quick, clean, cool and silky shave. No brush. No The modern way. Try it—three times—according to directions. 65c tubes. rub-in. For Modern Shaving Privilege Sixce I have suffered I may sing Before pain’s ruthless bludgconing Had heartened my frail minstrelsy Since I have suffered I may pray The prayers I dared not in the past That strife be keen, defeat be gay, That there be love too fine to last. Rik. J. Beauty Hint Lucite, the 35c and best way out of it. courting her; duckling is a thing accursed. Startled, she dropped the gun. grazed the boss's ankle. o enclose 10¢ day, ease send trial snickers when he nose. There, will read the truth: BEAUTIFUL | ST! EMPLOY R G. C. The songs that were too brave for me homeliest girl in the office, had decided that suicide was the No handsome men no good times such as the other girls were having; surely, an ugly Her employer entered the office just as she raised the pistol to her head. It went off as it struck the floor and the bullet Now the office has no homeliest girl. Lucil'e started for Hollywood yester- and the first movie director that secs Lucille’s face will find a newspaper thrust under his in bold type on Page One, he The Value of Experience AF Oxce upon a time there was a little boy who was imbued with the ambition One day he y Story to become a great novelist. said to his father “Dad, I wish to become a great writer, the author of books which will enter tain the world, What shall I write abe on, you should write about adven- . father. The parent, who wished for his son a great success and a place in the Hall of Fame, gave his entire time to the education of the offspring. The boy was taken all over the world to get first- hand information regarding every sort of land and every kind of people. He was shown everything that had to do with adventure. He was taken to Ice- land and to the South Sea Isla that he would know every c every country. He was taken plains and deserts and ranges of moun- He was taught, from actual ex- perience, about typhoons and hurricanes and cyclones, His education was lack- ing in nothing that form a groundwork for wonderful stories of the adventures of men under the most ture,” replied the loving ds so e and across tains. would trying circumstances. . And so it came to pass that the son repaid his father for all that had been done for him out of the the sale of his first book, which was, roceeds of ¢ title of “Her Passionate Hour.” TF. So they their country Oh, yes! All their friends had HOSTETTER’S CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTERS It tends to promote good health, strengthen the digestive organs and to Beep the stomach in good condition. At All Druggiete, THE HOSTETTER CO., PITTSBURGH, PA. “Jobuildyounp ouup NSIST UPON [—soINStST KEMP" Ss BALSAM| FOR THAT COUGH! Milk Malted Milk NO SHOOTS and Food For INFANTS, Children, Invalids, Nursing Mothers,etc. comicbooks.com '