Life, 1927-03-17 · page 38 of 43
Life — March 17, 1927 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light satirical content** rather than political commentary. The main feature is a **Fougère Royale shaving cream advertisement** emphasizing that quality razors need good cream to handle tough beards and tender skin. The ad plays on masculine grooming concerns typical of the era. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** is a humor column where a wealthy society woman narrates mundane domestic anxieties—hair loss excuses from female friends, fashion material shortages, and digestive concerns about Welsh rarebit. The satire gently mocks upper-class preoccupations and hypochondria, with her husband dismissively reassuring her that failing to finish cheese is unremarkable. **"It Seems There Were Once Two Irishmen"** appears to be an Irish-themed humorous story fragment. The right column contains period advertisements for Tarrant's (a digestive product), antiseasickness remedies, and Cortiez cigars—typical commercial content for Life magazine of this era. Overall: **This is primarily a commercial and light-humor page with no significant political satire.**
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Life ha Try this New way/ A TOUGH beard and a tender face pura big responsibility on a razor. Even a keen edge needs all the help you can giveit. But there is a new shaving cream that makes any razor work faster and smoother. It is uncompromising with unruly whiskers but mild and soothing to the tenderest skin. Fougére Royale is its name. It was made for the man who is inclined to be fussy about his face. Fougére Royale (Royal Fern) Shaving Cream absorbs brushesful of water and whips up a close, fine-textured, beard-softening lather with the refreshing odor of Royal Fern. Ask your druggist today for the fifty-cent tube of Fougére Royale, or senda dime and the coupon below. Learn this new way to “the better shave.” Fougtre Royale After-Shaving Lotion is soothing, healing and cooling after a clove shave. Restores moisture to the skin, evapor- ates quickly and is not sticky. It's a new prod- uct but most druggists already have it—75c. “gene oyale Shaving Cream Pronounced Foo-Zhaire Royal Talcum, $1.00; Eau Vegetale, $1.: Facial Soap, 50¢. UBIGANT, Inc. Dept. Ls 539 West 45th Street, New York City I want to try Fougére Royale Shaving Cream. Here is my dime. Name Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 16) hair, each one of them accounting for the shearing on the grounds that her locks were beginning to fall out. Lord! I do believe that I shall laugh in the face of the next one of my contemporaries who gives me such an excuse, and also add that I had sup- posed she had resorted to such an ex- tremity because she could no longer get her arms to her head. February Word come this morning 1 rom my dressmakers 24th clerk that the material I did choose for my new sports costume cannot be had, the only alternative being in beige, and Sam, hearing me lament over the telephone that all the news from Paris is that beige is being stra- tegically forced out of the best col- lections, did ask me if I was so little of an individualist as to be a slave to fashion, and I did meet such a mas- culine observation with the silence it merited....Lunching at home alone, I did order a rarebit of cheese, but I did find to my amazement that I could not quite finish it, and did experience another of those premoni- tions that the great red team may not be what it used to be. But when I did confide my fears to my hus- band, he did respond that no med- ico of his acquaintance would be- come agitated over a woman's failing to consume the last three bites of a large Welsh rarebit, so my fears may be groundless, and I do pray God that they are, for multimillionaires whose stomachs have been removed or sewed up at Johns Hopkins surely cannot have much of a time on their one string bean and bran cracker a day, and how would such depleted rations go with me, who half the time am not even solvent at the bank? Baird Leonard. “It Seems There Were Once Two Irishmen...”’ (Continued from page 9) Esthore? Is there still water in Kil- larney’s lakes or does it toss to and fro with the sound of the shrill laughter of the Sidhe? Do all cars transfer to O’Bloomingdale’s? Does your mother know you're out? Tell me, and belike if I can put my mind to it, I'll tell you a story of two Irishmen that was told me by my Uncle Timothy’s man, Jerry Peaghthgh. “Well,” said Jerry, bi n’ your presence, it seems there was once two Irishmen...” “You're a dirty, blackguardy liar, Jerry Peaghthgh,” said I, which is our way of taking polite exception to a man’s statements, ITS NOTABAD PANE SIVER PAULL | Remember the Knickerbocker in the old | days? Caruso lived there and Old King Cole hung over the long, damp bar? Sometimes, the crowd stayed late and high. balls came too often. But the next mor. ing, the real New Yorker cleared his head with a glass of Tarrant’s and was ready for the market to open. Tarrant’s is a marvelous saline that you drink like a mineral water. It is pleasant to the taste and brings almost immediate relief. Since 1844 doctors have prescribed Tarrant's for indigestion, constipation, headache, dy» pepsia and rheumatism. 154,627 physicians’ letters in our files testify to its effectiveness. A little of this perfect blend of basic salts and other harmless ingredients in a glass of water makes a wonderful eae. Geta ipl of time-tested, time-proved Tarrant’s your druggist today. Make it a regula morning drink. Just ask for Tarrant’s. FIRST THING IN THE bal TARRANTS SELTZER APERIENT SK FOR we? Tarrant and the exhaustion, faintness, nav- sea and dizziness caused by travel motion. Journey by Sea, Train, Car, Auto or Air in perfect comfort with Mothersill's. P 73. & $1.30 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill_Remedy Co., Ltd. New York Parts sorte. CIGARS I-MADE AT KEY WEST— comicbooks.com