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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It features diamond sales pitches and product advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazines. The main content is Jason Weiler & Sons' diamond catalog advertisement, emphasizing mail-order purchasing and cost savings (20-40% off). The copy uses period appeals: diamonds signal "prosperity," and the company's decades-long reputation legitimizes direct buying. The other content—"Mrs. Pep's Diary" (a serialized domestic column), and advertisements for dandruff remedy, bow legs treatment, world cruises, and cigars—represent standard Life magazine filler. These ads reflect contemporary consumer anxieties: social respectability through jewelry ownership, and physical appearance anxieties. There is **no identifiable political cartoon or satirical commentary** on this particular page. It's a straightforward commercial and lifestyle content page from an era when Life magazine balanced humor with significant advertising revenue.

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Life DIAMONDS: DIRECT by mail > from Jason Weiler & Sons, Boston, Mass: America’s Leading Importers and Save 20 to 40% For over $0 years the house of Jason Welter & || Soas, of Boston, has been one of the leading || diamond importing concerns in America selling direct by mail to customers and dealers alike all |) over the world at worthwhile savings. Here are several diamond offers—dire-t to you by mail | which clearly demonstrate our position to name prices on diamonds that should surety interest any present or prospective diamond purchaser. This perfectly cut one-| carat dismond is of ex-/ cellent brilliancy. Mounted in latest style beautifully pierced and engraved Ik Id gold ring. Send for this diamond, make any compari- sons you wish and if you can duplicate this one-carat diamond ring elsewhere for less than $200.00 send it back and | your money will be returned at ‘nce without a quibble. Gar price diet toyeu 9145 00 “The wearing of a diamond ring bespeaks prosperity” 1 carat, $145.00 Ladies’ Diamond Ring Perfectly cut blue-white diamond of rare bril- Maney set In 18k Solid White Gold, Banquet style ring beautifully Fine, full cut blue-white diamond of exceptional brilliancy securely set in solid platinum ring, which ts richly carved and exquisitely, plerced smaller blu e-$75,00 | n.alacew Cy white diamonds effect. 2 i“ feo weights and prices of other diamond rings: If desired. rings will be sent to any ak you may name or any Express Co. with privilege of examination. Our dia- mend guarantee for full value for all time goes with every purchase. Write today for This Free Catalog. “HOW TO BUY DIAMONDS” This elaborately illus De tated Diamond Cat- alog is considered an authority on the sub- / ie It tells aes judge, select. and buy diamonds — how t! the Om are mined, cut anc | iS marketed. “This book shows weights, sizes, prices, and. qualities of Dia- mond Rings, Bar Pins, Lavaliers, Bracelets and Diamond Mounted Watches (rom $20.00 to $20,- 000.00. Write for a free copy ~~ today. Send your ~~~ name and address by poss ~~ tal or letter, or mail the cou- pon below and you will receive your Copy at once. —-CLIP COUPON—FILL IN AND MAIL NOW-—— Jason Weiler & Sons'} 371 Washington St., Boston, Mass. | Corner of Washineton and Franklin Streets hy Diamond Importers Since 1875 Foreign Agencies: Antwerp, Amsterdam and London Please send FREE Diamond Catalog Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 6) Lexington Avenue with Mary Bil- lings to look for a certain kind of erystal on which she has set her heart, astonished to learn how prices have risen amongst the antique deal- ers in the last few years, for in the most unpretentious shops nothing could be found even on the floor for less than eighty or one hundred dol- lars, and I was reminded of the day many years ago when Charley Falls took me to see the gate-leg table he had found for me on that same Av- enue, and how I had shuddered at possessing a piece of furniture off which the dealer and his wife were eating a messy meal, and on which an infant sadly in need of sanitary attention was crawling. But I did purchase it, and for eight dollars. Edith Wylie to see me al- aa most before I had downed 7th my breakfast tea, so she did sit by the bed whilst we talked of many things, telling me how she had had a letter from the faithful maidservant in whose charge she had left the sub-tenant of her apart- ment in Indianapolis which spoke of the latter's cold-bloodedness as fol- lows, “He*goes around and turns the radiators on, and I follows right after and turns them off, but any- ways, the ivies is dead.” After her departure, up and off to keep an ap- pointment with Maisie Woodbridge at her house, and whilst I was wait- ing, M.’s six-year-old daughter did come in and perform various and dif- ficult acrobatic feats by bracing her- self on the arm of my chair and the wood-box, piping up with each one, ‘an you do this?” until I could have reached out and clouted the little devil had not Maisie arrived and put me out of my misery. That my answers were so painfully negative, however, did remind me that I must seek out a gymnasium straightway and get myself into condition once more....This night to the playhouse to see a piece called “The Captive,” and in one scene Ann Andrews did wear a coat which I had much liefer | have than my two eyeteeth. Baird Leonard. Reason Enough ARDEN: What was the trou- ble among the prisoners? Turnkey: A fight. That clergy- man who is in for murder tried to make his bootlegger cell-mate stop smoking. HAT has become of the old- fashioned girl who used to read the novels of Michael Arlen? A Sure Way To | End Dandruff | ‘There is ono sure way that never fails to | remove dandruff completely, and that is | to dissolve it. Then you destroy it tirely. To do this, just apply alittle Lig Arvon at night before retiring: use enot to moisten the scalp and rub it in ger with the finger tips. i By morning, most, if not all, of your | dandruff will be gone, and two or three | more applications will completely dissolve | and entirely destroy every single sign and | trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. | You will find, too, that all itching of the ec will stop instantly and your hair will be lustr: glomy, silky and eoft, and look and feel a bur | red times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug ttore, and a four ounce bottle is all you will need ‘This eimple remedy has never fail, n known to You Can't Comb Ont Dandreff | SLIDUIDARVON xB BOW LEGS? TR OARTER ( For't) Makes Trous rs Hang Straight He lap Dent tne Oa. Bat At teed Eovcnye Tee T.CARTERCO.™%i? ed or (LOGGED PORES prevented if skin is well cleansed with non-irritant soap. Thousands use only Resinol Clark’s Famous Cruises By Cunarp-Ancnor new, oil burners at pis including hotels, guides, drives and ees. 121 days $1250 to $2900 ROUND THE WORLD 8s “California” sailing Jan. 19 7th cruise, including Havana, Canal, Los Angeles, Hilo, 19 days Japan and China, Manila, Java, Burma, option 17 days India, Ceylon, (LQui ARvou | Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Riviera Europe stop-overs. 23rd Mediterranean Cruise Jan. 29; 62 days, $600 to $1700. FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bldg., N. Y. OF BRAINS {GARS Con AT KEY WEST-— FOR g ME comicbooks.com