Life, 1926-09-02 · page 32 of 41
Life — September 2, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes editorial content with period advertising (circa 1920s-1930s). **Left side**: Advertisement for Eversharp and Wahl pens, using inspirational rhetoric about "hand and brain" working together for success. The silhouettes show young people in active poses, emphasizing vitality and ambition—common messaging for writing instruments marketed to educated professionals. **Center**: "Mrs. Pep's Diary" continues a serialized domestic narrative about an upper-class woman visiting childhood locations and socializing. The diary format was popular light reading. Notable: discussion of passport processing and a joke about twin sisters' apparent age difference—reflecting early 20th-century travel concerns and casual sexism about women's aging. **"The Day to Marry"** brief joke: An actress and actor plan a Friday the 13th wedding to prove they're not superstitious, but the actress quips they'll need *something* to blame their marriage problems on—cynical humor about matrimonial regret. **Right side**: Medical advertisements for Forhan's gum treatment and Resinol salve, plus Mothersill's seasickness remedy—typical patent medicine marketing of the era. The page reflects leisure-class concerns: travel, romance, refined domesticity, and consumer products promising health and success.
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Life There'sanEversharp for you in any style and sive you want. This one sells at $3 BR Wahl Pensare made in new shades of met tled, red and black, This one sells at 57 A great team is the hand and brain, no matter what your goal. Train them together,in school and in the game of life, for your victory. Out of the shifting play of the mind, select and perfect that flashing thought which promises Success. Drill yourself in the practice of fining it down to fighting trim: Pur st on Paper! Vv Vv Success waits on the man who keeps in line with his thinking those best friends of an active brain, Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 10) dollars on you? It always seems to be that very sum, so that I do believe she loses but part of it and holds out the difference. August Up _ betimes, and off by I motor to Schoharie, where 10th 1 did spend so many sum- mers in my childhood, finding, to Sam’s intense interest, the names of some of my forbears carved on the Old Stone Fort, but when we did fare on to Middleburgh and discover that the handsome old interior of the Dutch Reformed Church there had been redone, and the high pews of black walnut supplanted by hideous modern benches of Methodist-looking light wood, highly stained, it was all I could do to keep back the tears, and Sam was at some pains to re- strain me from going to the Town Hall and protesting to those in au- thority. Arrived back in time for tea, for which a small and cheerful company was gathered, amongst them a woman who did tell me that the recorder’s office who s passports for the citizens of her village had remarked to her, the last time she arranged to go to Europe, Isn't it the most curious thing, Mrs. Apthorp, that Mrs. Bis- bee, your twin sister, should be seven years younger than you? We did speak, too, of the things which lie about us to which we give small heed, most of us being so unobserv- ing as not to be able to answer the simplest question about objects which we encounter daily, but Lord! such an accusation cannot be made of m, who does look about him so alertly in order not to miss anything when we stroll the streets, that it would seem as if he were a fugitive from justice, and a companion less wise than I to his integrity and inno- cence would not be surprised to have him tapped suddenly on the shoulder, with the remark, Now come quictly along with me, my man; it’s useless to resist.... Bridge after dinner, and so, after reading a little in Robert Hichens’s “The Unearthly,” to bed. Baird Leonard. The Day to Marry CTOR: Let’s get married’ on Friday the thirteenth, just to show we are above superstition. Actress: Good—then we'll always have something to blame it to. AIRY, STORY—Once upon a time there was an after-dinner speakers who did not pretend that his The dread Pyorrh ea begins with bleeding gums UST as the strength of a building is depend ent upon its founda tions, so are healthy teeth dependent up- ‘on healthy gums, Permit the guns t ns. tively preveres a fused a time and used com sistently Italie scientifically cleacs the teech—beeps them whiteand clean, Brush your teeth with «. Pormuinet BJ. Pertan, DDS FORHAN CO, Montreal | (Un SCRATCHES Stop the smarting and hasten the healing by prompt application of ‘and the exhaustion, faintness, nau- sea and dizziness caused by travel motion. Journey by Sea, Train, Car, Auto or Air in perfect comfort with Mothersill's. 73¢. & $1.30 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill Remedy Co, Ltd. Y ‘Moatrest SEASICK comicbooks.com