Life, 1926-03-25 · page 36 of 40
Life — March 25, 1926 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes satirical content with period advertising. The main cartoon, "Ask Them How They Reduced," mocks the era's obsession with weight loss by depicting a group of fashionably thin people. The joke targets the widespread use of "Marmola" diet tablets—a real product advertised below—which promised weight reduction without exercise or dieting. The cartoon suggests that nearly everyone in modern society has become consumed with slenderness, making this pharmaceutical solution absurdly popular. The accompanying article, "Mrs. Pep's Diary," satirizes upper-class social conventions of the 1920s: excessive courtesy calls, pretentious dining, Prince Matchabelli perfume, and the social complications of marriage and bridge-playing among the wealthy. The humor derives from documenting trivial social anxieties with exaggerated gravity. Both pieces satirize contemporary consumer culture and social pretension rather than targeting specific political figures.
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prevents exhaustion, nausea, dizziness and faintness of Train Travel. Journey by Sea, Train, Auto, Car or Air in Health and Comfort. & $1.50 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersil! Remedy Co., Ltd. Mothersill's JHAT house the modern newly really needs is a built-in V cook, How They Reduced Most people everywhere keep slender | in these days. Wherever you look, the | great majority of men and women are combating fat. Ask how they do this and many will | mention Marmola, This famous pre- scription has for 18 years been reduc- ing excess fat. Millions have learned | its efficiency. The results are seen in every circle now. Almost everyone has slender friends who owe their figures to Marmola, Users have told others, until people are taking 100,000 Marmola tablets daily. The treatment has come into world-wide use. No abnormal exercise, no starvation diet. Just a pleasant tablet. No secrets. We state every ingredient and tell how Marmola acts. You know exactly why and how reduction comes. Then why remain over-fat?_ Every idea of beauty and efficiency forbids. When so many people keep slender so easily, why not find out how? You owe that to yourself. Marmola Prescription Tablets are sold by all druggists at $1 per box. Send this coupon for our latest book, a 25-ct. sample free and our guarantee. Clip it now. The Pleasant Way to Reduce MARMOLA 2-234General Motors Bldg. DETROIT, MICH, Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 22) small coffves, the reckoning was eleven dollars and fifteen cents, without the did deem out cheerfully fee, which | but paid though I were obliged by the terms of waiter’s ra as cous, a will to rid myself casually of a mil- Easter, After all, statute requiring New at so many meals a month lion dollars before there is no Yorkers te in that restaurant, albeit such an infer- ence might be drawn from the difheulty at times of getting seated in it... Boothby to dinner, and during Marge the meal my waitress did- manag. de that it the birthd cook, whereupon a gr was do of assembling presents for her, to them [ did add a bottle of perfume made by a Prince Matchabetli_ which some one had sent me, causing Marge Katie's reaction n to inquire wh: be did she twig herself in pos ome scent concocted by a Prince, but re interest e's might methinks it would be m what the Pri upon learning I had given it to her. to know Lay late, pondering the num- ber of courtesy calls I must March 2nd as to the wisdom of bothering about make, and with some misgiv- ing them at all, forasmuch as manners and customs have altered so greatly no re= cent years. Time was when a woman could almost be ostracized if she did not leave cards within two weeks after being formally ¢ ned, but Lord! now h : airaid will sv. To a great | i my sex at Edith Emery’s, re was much talk of Lily Dunham, the bride, and they did tell the I-hate-to-go-above-you plex so strongly in regard to her spouse amoured at she me has com that she has been suspected, when play- ing against him at bridge, of throwing the game to his advanta but IT take no stock in such scandal, preferring to imagine that it is m dificult for a person in love to keep track of the trumps than for one who is in full pos I did hear session of his wits too, of a Mistress under the Deming, who, knife st to go for ser wus opera tion, did stay the anwsthetician’s hand to ask him to enjoin her husband to send hack to the shop the lingerie which she had purchased on approval Then to. i gaining seventeen dollars, and walking home along the Avenue [ did bethink me that we were having corned beef and cabbage for dinner and how fond of it is Maric Doro, playactress, so did stop and pick her up, and Sam made a party of the occasion by insisting on ripe olives, some champagne and a lace tablecloth: This night my scales did register a or which T thank Baird Leonard, loss of five pounds, f God. | Science proves the danger | of bleeding gums CAST defense protects thelife of a nation gum defense the life of a tooth On the gum line danger lies. 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