Life, 1926-10-21 · page 41 of 44
Life — October 21, 1926 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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This page contains no political cartoon. Instead, it features: **Left side:** A continuation of "Mrs. Pep's Diary"—a humorous society column by Baird Leonard describing a wealthy woman's day visiting the Public Library (frustrated by bureaucracy), inspecting house painters, and her husband reading the Bible aloud at an inn. The tone is light domestic satire about upper-class life. **Center/Right:** A large advertisement for the **Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit**, emphasizing comfort, affordability ($4-$5 per day), and amenities. The ad uses homey language ("like a pleasant home") and includes an illustration of the hotel entrance with guests arriving by car. **Bottom left:** An advertisement for a Studebaker watch ($1 down, lifetime guarantee). **Bottom right:** Insurance policy details for hotel guests (accidental death/injury coverage). This is primarily an **advertising page** with supporting editorial content—typical of Life magazine's business model.
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Life Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 10) be meeting a boat, and in casting about for a place of refuge until my cronies would be stirr I did be- think me that I had never been in the Public Library, so thence straightway to look up a point in French architecture about which I have lately had a dispute, but Lord! I was obliged to search out so many titles, write out so many numbers and stand in so many lines, that I began to fear that if I did ever fin- ish the business I should be stamped with a rubber seal and shot through a tube, so over to the new house to see if the painters were doing as they had been bidden, which painters never are, and why it is they should want so vehemently to superimpose their ideas of color on those of the tenant | do not see, nor why it seems to be against the articles of their re- ligion to paint a ceiling anything but a ghastly white or indifferent a. Found, thank God, they had finally reached the shade of green for which Sam and IT had virtually fought and bled. and of which, in my grateful excitement, I did carry away a small sample onomy skirt, an aveident which i did not mind as much as T might have, for 1 can look at the spot from time to time until we move in and be reassured that all is well. This night we did spend in an inn, rg over the unusual experi- t Sam cautioned me to be my age and go to DePinna’s the next time I needed clothes. He, poor wretch, did fall upon the Bible which he fe it were 1 so ence th in our siti yg-ruomas though a curi » and punctuated rusal of “The Romantic Come- with passages from it until I ains not to speak to hi Reading aloud to in unreceptive car should be, me- thi , one of the leading grounds for divorce, my po dians” was at some sharply Baird Teonard. 4 Lifetime Watch! | Sent for CAT. TREE CAT aLeS es Sele wow oa. Write? STUDEBAKER watca ca co, Det 215 Seath Bead, tndisne Etiss, WATCHES DIAMO! o seweLey , Ontarse Book:Oadillac cerrRo\ir s Where there's Rest at Journey’s End They say that there's a kind of restfulness to be found in the that of a pleasa found that true, Book-Cadillac Hotel like to nt home. You probably have you probably have found that from the west doorway up the great staircase, down the long lobby, into the elevators and up to your room there's a something, an atmosphere of restfulness. Y' +++ Ifyou haven you. ou've felt that this was home "t Stayed here yer, we welcome You will find a colorful, cheerful horel with five dining rooms, some with and some without music. There are 1200 rooms all above the seventh floor, quict, all are outside, light and airy, all hav ¢ bath. 560 of them are priced at $4 and $5 a day. The beds are the softest, the sleepiest that we could find. When you come, we'll do our utmost to make your stay with us memo- rable, unforgettable. They say that it is like a pleasant home. THE BOOK-CADILLAC HOTEL COMPANY DETROIT Roy Carruthers, President To each guest as he pays his bill is given a receipt and at- tached is an insurance policy valid for 48 hours. Itis an exten- nity sonol Book Caliliscea rice tates yea ancy nome Indem- $5,000.00 in case of accidental death; $2, 500.00 for loss of limb; and $25.00 weekly for wholly disabling injuries comicbooks.com