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This page contains primarily **advertising content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Left side:** A flowchart-style advertisement for Mennen Shaving Cream, humorously titled "Chart of a Real Shave" showing the product's components (cream, water, brush, razor, dermutation balm, skin balm, talcum) leading to "100% Satisfaction" at 7:20 AM. The joke is applying pseudo-scientific "efficiency" language to a simple grooming routine. **Center:** "Mrs. Pep's Diary" (continued from previous issue)—a domestic humor column describing her frustrations with burglars and neighbors in Gotham (New York City). **Right side:** Advertisement for Durham-Duplex razor blades, using Diogenes (the ancient Greek philosopher famous for searching for an honest man) as a mascot to market blades as trustworthy and superior. The page's satire is mild and commercial rather than political—it mocks the era's obsession with efficiency systems and uses classical references for comedic advertising appeal.

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—Seme + LIFE - 39 CHART OF A REAL SHAVE | MENNEN SHAVING CREAM Alittle Cream on BRUSH 100% SATISFACTION, 720 \C¥, AM. AN efficiency man sald to me once, “Only when a method is right, can you chart it. Three million men know that a Mennen Shave is right, chart or no chart. Mennen’s gives the same amazing results with any kind of water, hot or cold, hard or soft. A small amount of cream will hold such @n enormous amount of rater, that it’s econom- ical. Dermutation—tne sci- entific way to master a beard, softens {t so that it yields to the razor with- out a twitcr, MENNEN Then the tingling, pep- — SHAVING py zip of Skin Baim, cool- CREAM ing, refreshing, wonder- fully good for the skin. And finally, » velvety film of Talcum for Men that is antiseptic, protect- ing to sensitive skin and doesn't show because it is skin color. All this co-ordinated shaving efficiency con- centrated in just a few minutes of absolutely sat- isfying, convincing op- eration. ‘Try the Complete Men- nen Shave: TALCUM FOR MEN toa Mesuge tine AP voctape Salermen)| MENNEN SHAVING CREAM Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 14) Pp This is the April ira hath 18th which we ice d be glad lepression did suffuse my spirits upon sing that I d of tele Kansas Ci ght upon rasmuch as Mar six hundred dk ink for a moment t Le h puts ¢ viduals in distress, Wrexler, being s behind on the week help to th th bridge, with no change of luck . send it of its meetings an appeal before one r A at d every rubber. I was debat the expedience of the move Haskins dropped in, with tal s in the apartmer htened my g + past be fore they wou the place, to hear door the othe ning to discover { fallen by a wom with an uplifted hu: her end of t and ¢ can be told of ap nt life ch th ys when we lived under a pair who had the be always shouting for Gotham that will ever WS over wind my lid did come in wrote for beh In Spring’s sweet flowery month « And wears Id all her lif an emera Whereupon T d but his « that end for the price of so ev vut parting a gem. Even he is now reminded that my birthday is near. ird Leonard. Equipment with Which the Aver- age College Graduate Sets Out to Wrest a Living from the World A= of golf clubs, an recognize twenty per cent. of th ability to words in any French or German news paper, a jar of hair-cream, a ukulele, a hazy idea of why Ha: nibal crossed Alps, an Omicron Omega Omicron pin, a copy of WI etry,” a college sweater, a a nodding acquaintan bethan drama, a cée and an oblong of parchment engraved in Latin. Keith Cro ° ° looking for you IOGENES is on a new quest—looking for men who want an Honest Shave. After many centuries he dis- covered his honest man, mak- ing the famous Durham- Duplex Blades. Now he is making this new search for men who want to be honest with their shaving ca: by using the Blades Men Swear By - Not At. To these men, Diogenes is offering membership in his great fraternity of shaving men, called the Diogenes Club. The initiation fee is only a quarter, The credentials given to each new member consist of a genuine Durham- Duplex Razor, the same régular $1 Duplex Blade Join this wonderful club now at your dealers, of mail the coupon and let Uncle Sam bring your credentials, NEW DURHAM-DUPLEX SETS Including two $0¢ packages of 5 Durham-Duplex Blades—$1.50 Interchangeable Blades — 50c for package of S JOIN THE DIOGENES CLUB FOR The BladesMenSwearBy-notAt DURHAM.-DUPLEX RAZOR CO., Jer@ty City, N. J. Factories: Jersey City; Shetheld, Eng.; Parts, France; Toronto, Can.” Sales Representatives in d Concneries. comicbooks.com