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This page mixes literary criticism with period advertising and a brief humorous dialogue. **Main Content:** Book reviews by "Baird Leonard" discuss novels featuring marital discord—"Judith" involves a woman tempted by an intellectual poet to abandon her devoted husband, while "The Rebel Bird" concerns a woman who took drastic steps after marrying wrongly. The reviewer critiques character treatment and moral lessons for female readers about restlessness in marriage. **The Joke:** A short dialogue at bottom: A cook, fired for poor performance, will "go to some night club"—implying domestic servants were abandoning household work for nightlife employment, reflecting 1920s social mobility and the decline of traditional servant culture. **Advertising:** Includes cigarette ads ("Going Strong"), European travel services (Dean & Dawson), dandruff remedy (Liquid Arvon), and The Hotel Bermudiana resort. The page reflects Jazz Age concerns: changing gender roles, women's education, marital infidelity, and shifts in working-class employment patterns.

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Extremely Mild ~ Before you go ‘ to EUROPE— Write for free useful information about Escorted and Independent Tours, Private Automobile trips, Steamship reservations, Cruises, Aeroplane and Railway Tickets. Special Mediterranean Tour, Sail- ing April 6th. 80 days of pleasure for $1595. Over 50 years of travel ex- perience and 35 Eurcpean offices. Free, helpful booklets on request. DEAN e DAWSON, 1:4 500 Fifth Avenue, New York Life Life and Letters (Continued from page 20) parlor set which Joe’s sister gave them was all wrong, so she neatly covered it with just the right slip covers. Her new women friends bored her with their interminable chatter of servants and bridge hands; even the arrival of her baby did not keep her from groping after a more satisfactory outiet for her energies and abilities. So, since her husband was of the sort hand-made in Heaven, she was soon going to classes at the University and being invited to the most gosh-awful teas imaginable. But Judith liked them, even though she was somewhat at sea when they sailed into Marcel Proust, and all might have been well if she hadn't happened to meet Ed- gar I at one of them. Edgar was a poet who ran a column on one of the Chicago dailies, a vocation which the uninitiated consider a notch or two above the pickle profes- sion, Inasmuch as a little Ibsen is a dangerous thing, it became ap- parent on page 188 that Judith was going home to tell that lamb of a Joe, who adored her, that from the morrow she must lead her own life It would be unfair to reveal mo except possibly the fact’ that T bawled = steadily from page 200. to the finish, The moral for the ladies in the audience is this: If you find yourself swallowing life without tasting it, don't get restless. Do a little thanksgiving. “The Rebel Bird,” an English story, is cerned with the life of Hermione Glenn, who, having mar- ried the wrong man, took drastic and apparently disgraceful “steps” twenty later to save her daughter from making the same mis- take. A good deal of it—and to me the most interesting part—is con- cerned with Hermione’s husband and his mistress, Kitty Barrasford—the luscious Kitty who ran the movie theatre and could involuntarily com- mand the devotion of an avenger from an ex-suitor. Inasmuch as I liked Kitty more than anybody in the book, I resent Miss Patrick's dis- missing her with the» chapter in which Archie Lucas shot Glenn. All the other characters are happily ac- counted for four years later. I should have relished an additional paragraph to the effect that Kitty had made a good match and borne two charming children. Baird Leonard. Her Next Place GHE: That was the worst cook we ever had. I wonder where she'll go now. He: Oh, to some night club. years ~~ ft to fail ‘Ae A Sure Way To End Dandruff | ‘There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely, and that is to dissolve it. Then you destroy it en- tirely. To do this, just apply a Tittle Liquid | Arvon at night before retiring; use enough | to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not alt, 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 itehing of the scalp willstop instantly and your hair will be lustrous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hun: dred times berter. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drux store, and a four ounce bottle is all you will need. This simple remedy SO tas nev: ye, er been known A Clean Play (“Movie Rights to ‘Abie’s Irish Tose’ ,000,000."—H eadline.) gained the praise of Will H. Hays, We venture to suppose, and thus the price of Abie’s Irish Rose, and Rose...and Rose. J. A. Sherrard, Managing “Director 1E Bermudiana sets a new high standard of service, cuisine, and entertainment. This new, entirely fireproof hotel is situated in a large tropical park, Famous dance or- chestra, all outdoor sports all winter For reservations or booklet, address Hotel Bermudiana, Hamilton, Ber- muda, or Furness’ Bermuda Line, Desk B, 34 Whitehall St., New York. comicbooks.com