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This Life magazine page (from the 1920s) contains three satirical pieces targeting upper-middle-class aspirations: **"The Family Trip"** mocks the pretensions of wealthy families planning an economical vacation. The joke is that despite claiming to economize with a "short, inexpensive motor camping jaunt," each family member's plans are absurdly extravagant: the daughter seeks Hollywood stardom, the son plans to make a million in real estate, the mother researches French Renaissance painters. The final line—"If the truth were known, many a divorce suit is of the two-pants variety"—suggests such financial strain causes marital breakdown. **"Any Patient"** is a brief joke: a sick man pays doctor bills without complaint, but once he complains about the bill, you know he's recovered. It mocks hypochondria and malingering. The page otherwise contains product advertisements (Johnston's Chocolates, Whiting-Adams Brushes) and a book review section—typical of Life's mixed advertising and editorial content during this era.

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The Distinction of a Gift of JohnSton’s Chocolates “debt Yeuwill fadatecial | agency for Jobnion’s Chocolates in one of the better class Bores 4m your neighbourbood. ROBERT A. NEWYORK | CHICAGO oy ‘THE sophisticated giver well knows the valueof Johnston's for paying social for Johnston's is always correct. The secret of its good-ness is one of a generation's standing. Today ... because of it, Johnston's has won a pinnacle place among the finethings thathavebecome part of our daily lives, OHNSTON COMPANY MILWAUKEE, MINNEAPOLIS). OAKLAND Any Patient MITH pays, while he is really sick, His doctor's fees without a kick. When he complains about the bill You know that he’s no longer ill. “ WHITING -AL ~ ‘he Hou chold Buy-u ord mncaning Good Brushes WHITING-ADAM BRUSHES JOHN L. WHITING <1. J, 10, Mabcal Monninccarers tor Once Me ears jod the Largest in the World The Family Trip rs of Each Member Were Into Consideration) A\ SHORT, inexpensive motor camp ing jaunt in the spring of the year to Father's old home in Ohio, stopping only at the best hotels en route and avoiding the Middle West by traveling over one of those marvel- ous Canadian railway routes to the Pacific coast, with a stay of at least two months at Hollywood so Genevieve can have her chance in the pic spending June and July at Lake Pint kekkg in Mait Boy Scout camp—so many of Tom's boy friends will be there, and by water to Miami, where Junior, who has a flair for finance, is confident he clean up a million in real estate while Dad is gettir old bus, sa res, where there is a fir as and water for the ing from New York for London and aris, where Mother hopes to obtain first-hand material for her October club paper on “Famous Paint- ers of the Renaissance. EW. the truth were known, many a is of the two-pants divorce suit variety. Among the New Books Rendezvous. By Elisabeth Finley Thomas (Bobbs-Merrill), A story written with imagination and feeling about a woman whose misfortunes were certainly not her fault. To be reviewed later. Show Business. By Thyra Samter Winslow (Knopf). The private life of Helen Taylor, chorus girl. That Fool of a Woman. By Mil cent Sutherland (Putnam) F stories, short and sophisticated. Storm Dust. By Constance Smith (Holt). Here, according to the jacket, are shame, anguish, mystery and mur- der, with a hill in Surrey as the ‘menace.” The Shoals of Honour. By beth Sanxay Holding (Duttoi The author of “Invincible Minnie” creates a young man who is content just to get by from a moral and ethical stand- point until something happens which makes a nobler and better creature of him: Miranda Masters. By John Cour- nos (Knopf). A modern love story based on the old Gentile-Jew problem Noah's Ark. By abel Williams- Ellis (Doran). The subtitle is, “The love story of a respectable young couple.” Sir Thomas Gresham. By R. Salter, Sir Thomas More. By C. R Potter. Additions to Small, Maynard and Co.'s Roadmaker series, Madame De Pompadour. By Mar- celle Tinayre. Translated from the French by Ethel Colburn Mayne (Put- nam). A, study in temperament about a fascinating lady who did her bit to- wards getting the French Court that way. Harvest of Youth. By Edward Davison (Harper). Verse by one of the young editors of the London Mercury Three Predatory Women. By Syd ney Loch (Doran), Variations on an old theme. Melodies and Memories. By Nel- lie Melba (Doran), The life story of the great prima donna. By Max Brand (P nam), There's a mounted cowboy the cover, so use your own judgment Child of the Wild. By E Marshall (Cosmopolitan) s this is a novel of Alaska, do the same. Twenty-five. By Beverley Nichols (Doran). Gossipy stuff by a young man who has been und a bit. Spring Running. By F. W. Bron son (Doran), A first novel populated largely by young people. The Tilted Cup. By Mary F. Wickham Porcher (Dorrance). Medi- ocre verse. Grobo. By E. H. W. Meyerstein (Doran), A__ sophisticated — London nobleman purchases a beautiful Spanish youth and introduces him as a curio to_smart society Intellectual Vagabondage. By Floyd Dell (Doran). All about literary tendencies and the ideals and, disillu sionments of the younger generation as reflected in the fiction of to-day. BLL. iza- HE Scandinavians are inclining to- ward boastfulness because one their scientists has invented artificial fog. But we still have the Anti- League reports. if comicbooks!com