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This is primarily an **advertising page** featuring digestive remedies and shaving cream, interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes typical of Life's satirical format. The main content includes: 1. **Gastrogen Tablets ads** - promoting a digestive aid that claims to relieve indigestion without over-alkalizing the stomach (a common problem with competing products like bicarbonate of soda). 2. **"A Love Lyric"** - a mock-romantic poem about a lovelorn man who refuses grooming or social activity, ending absurdly with him filling "two large enamelled pails" (the joke's punchline is unclear from context). 3. **Brief comedic sketches** including "The Formal Touch" (about drunken men in a police cell) and "They're Off!" (about nervous driving). 4. **Mennen Shaving Cream ad** - emphasizing that proper shaving reveals whether a man has a "leather face" or "baby face," targeting male vanity and grooming standards of the era. The humor is gentle and domestic, reflecting 1920s advertising and consumer culture alongside Life's trademark satirical commentary on everyday social situations.

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32 Gastrogen Tablets never stop digestion by going too far! great objection which can be urged against so many digestive remedies. They very promptly relieve indigestion, "heartburn" and gas. They correct acidity, but there they stop. They do not interfere with the normal, healshy process of digestion its There they differ radically from bicarbonate of soda and preparations containing it. For with alkalics of this class, your stomach is often bur- dened with an alkaline residue which prevents it from digesting your food. ( yen ob Tablets are free from the one Gastrogen Tablets work in a different way! The peculiar virtue of Gastrogen Tablets is that ooce byper-acidity is overcome, once the distress is gone, the stomach remains “‘in neutral."* Na- ture quickly restores the correct amount of mild acidity (1-5 of one per cent) and any amount of Gastrogen’ remaining rests inert. and passes through the system unchanged Your indigestion vanishes quickly, your “heartburn” and distress is rapidly overcome, and your stomach gocs on in its normal work of digesting food without interference. Gastrogen Tablets are pleasant and harmless Gastrogen Tablets are mild, safe and effective They combat digestive disturbances without re~ tarding digestion. They are pleasant to taste They purify the breath and they are very prompt in the relief they give Your druggist has them in handy pocket- tins of 15 tablets for 20c; also in cabinet- size bottles of 60 tablets for 60c. If you want to try them before you buy them, send the coupon for free introductory packet of 6 tablets, GASTROGEN Oablets A Love Lyric Jder than the willow is the bank, ters. by I'm sadder than the deep blue sea, I'm sadder than the sky. Who seeks to cure my misery Is not advised to try. I'm not going to have my hair cut, fi my face, I'm not going to clean y teeth or shave Nor fasten up my lace; For by the ste My love no lo the only ¢ sorial disgrace. 1 not going to Il flee the sight and sound of men, Tl not go out to 1 be a lion in | Of qu fe I'll never whistle tunes, But I will si nd emulate Jen test line. I'll not respect a hoary pat | The habits of baboons. I'm not going to have my boots brushed, | I'm not going to cut my nails y to use a knife or fork | salt sca sn | For by the stars abo | My no longer Ic So 1 will go and fill Two large enamelled pails —H. G.G. H., in Cambridge In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE | The Formal Touch n the course of the night the police In th th he th i had brought in two noisy gentlemen in evening dress, and had lodged them in the proper reception re Shortly afterwards an equally convivial vagabond was bi Gt. ncing at the occu- ned “L understand itsh a m-matter of im ce, but goin’ t' be a full-d —Kasper (Stockholm). ght in. pants of the cell, he excla' | po: »w could I know it w-wash ss affair?” Nothing utters Bai | Wattimore, ter for sluggish appetite than Abb pie by tall, 25 cla. C. W, Abbot & They're Off! | A very nervous man was motoring | with a friend. They were going at a «reat speed, and the friend said cheer fancy! If we bang into any shall be nowhere t re we 1," murmured the don Daily Express. you've left finger prints on every plate. Mary: Well, it shows I ain't got a guilty conscience. —Weekly Telegraph (London). Leather face ot baby face Spreading the gospel of the Mennen Shave naturally makes me notice faces a whole lot. I've been handed the keys of the city by men with faces as tender- skinned as a baby’s and others with faces that looked like a Sunday roast- of-beef on Wednesday. And they all swear by Mennen Shaving Cream. ‘Take Mennen Shaving Cream first. Never mind the adjectives, Here’sa lather that can reduce anybody's whiskers—I don’t care how horny and wiry they are—to absolute and complete limpness. It’s a process— Dermutation—that Mennen discov- ered and no competitor has ever got the hang of. If you're one of those 3-brush-dabs and 7-second-razor artists, it gives you a shave —a close shave —better than you've ever had before. A shave that stays all da; And if you've got a tender, shave-every- other-day skin, your razor goes through literally without any pull or scrapy feeling. A clean, smooth de-bearding every da Next, there isn’t any sort of a face that isn’t better off for a little squeeze of Mennen Skin Balm rubbed over the shaved area. It comes in tubes and gives a wholly delight- ful, cooling sensation —tingling, refreshing. It tones up the tissue —soothes any pos- sible irritation. It's greaseless—absorbed in half a minute—and as sensible as putting on a clean collar to go and see your best girl. Same way with Mennen Talcum for Men. Made so it won't show on your face. Drysthe skin thoroughly. Antiseptic. Leaves a gorgeous silk-like film that protects against wind, rain, sun or a scraggly collar. In other words, the Mennen Complete Shave is great stuff for he-men who have discovered that there's a lot of virtue in being comfortable —to say nothing of being really well-groomed. Step into your corner drugstore today and get the makings. It's a good habit to get bine Sanne? i habituated to, (Ute Seteren) MENNEN SHAVING CREAM comicbooks.com