Life, 1927-04-07 · page 46 of 59
Life — April 7, 1927 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with some poetry and short humor pieces. The main advertisements include: 1. **Wrigley's Spearmint Gum** — A silhouette illustration shows someone chewing gum with the claim it "aids digestion, cleans the teeth, refreshes mouth and throat. After Every Meal." 2. **Russell Patterson School of Humorous Illustration** — An ad promoting Patterson's cartooning instruction course, emphasizing his modern "peppy" style and earning potential. 3. **Allen's Foot-Ease** — A powder product promising relief from sore, tired feet and perspiration. The **non-advertising content** includes: - "Ballade of Pleasant Wishes," a poem celebrating simple rural and social pleasures - Short humorous anecdotes: one about a rural wife's excessive home remedies before the doctor arrived, another about a mother's parenting struggles These pieces reflect early 20th-century *Life* magazine's format mixing satire, advertising, and light domestic humor for middle-class readers.
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Aids digestion, cleans the teeth, refreshes mouth and throat. After Every Meal nego! Makes a $150 Drawing ina Few Hours! —and now teaches you his original methods in a series of 20 snappy lessons — brimful with sparkling interest from the very start — a de- parture from the purely conventional. This training consti- tutes the last word in Humorouslllustration, teaching a New Art for a New Age—a pleasant relief from the old style, standardized instruction. Learn to draw the dashing, peppy types that are all the rage as exemplified by Mr. Patter- son’s numerous contributions to maga- zines. Let him teach you his clever technique. What profession could com- pare with this in its irresistible appeal or sheer earning power? Write now for full information. Russell Patterson School of Humorous Illustration Michigan Ave. at 20th St., Dept. 5 CHICAGO - - - ILLINOIS and what a relief ! Just shake Allen's FooteEase into your shoes in the morning and walk all day in comfort. It takes buta moment, and is better than a “daily dozen” for put- ting “pep” into your feet, and at night you can dance and not get foot-sore. Allen's FootEase takes the friction from the shoes, soothes tender, tired, aching feet, absorbs perspiration and relieves calluses, corns and bunions. For Free samp'e send yourname and address to Allen's Foor-Ease, LeRoy, N.Y. Ask at drug store or toilet ge ALLEN’'S FOOT=EASE counter for— Ballade of Pleasant Wishes Wnuo loves to be thinking Of cherry-trees snowing, Of daylight just blinking And morning winds blowing, Of soft rivers flowing, Be-ringed by the fishes Of sleck cattle lowing? For these are my wishes. When stars are a-win! a Who would not be going Where bright lasses prinking By mirrors are showing Gay faces and glowing, And silken stuff swishes, Its lustrous folds strowing? For these are my wishes. Where glasses are clinking And fiddlers bowing, With laughter and drinking And heeling and toeing, Where deft cooks and knowing, Compounding good dishes, Contentment are sowing? For these are my wishes. L'Esvor Crabbed Puritan throwing Me “tushes” and “pishes,” I scorn your bestowing, For these are my wishes. Syd. C., in The Bulletin (Sydney). Ready to Begin “Have you given him anything or done anything to relieve him?” asked the young doctor, who had fared far into the back- woods to see a patient in the dead of a stormy night. “Well, no, doc—that is to say, nothin’ to speak of,” said the wife of the patient. “IT had him soak his feet in almost b'ilin’ water with a lot of mustard in it, an’ I clapped a red-hot plaster on his back, an’ another one on his chist, an’ I've put a couple of blisters I had in the house un- der his arms, an’ a bag o' cracked ice to the back of his neck, an’ had him drink a pint o° ginger tea with a dash o’ rum init jes’ as hot as he could swaller it, an’ I fol- lered that with some yarb bitters one 0 the neighbors sent over, an’ I had him take five or six pills out of a box I got one day of a man that come along with med'cine to sell, an’ he’s had three or four spoons 0’ Quackem’s pain-killer an’ one 0” these sidelitz powders, but I didn’t feel like as if I ort to give him much 0° any- thing, or try to do much for hit, until you come an’ see what you think ailed | him."—Forbes. Orders Are Orders A youxe woman in a small suburb, the proud but distracted mother of two mis chievous little boys, was* overheard by 4 neighbor to call to the older one: “Joe, oh, Joe, go find Bobby and tell him to stop whatever he is doing!” —Indianapolis News. Fortunt-Tetter: You are going on # journey and you will meet with good fortune. : Ixsvnep Moronist (eagorly): You mean I will have an accident? —Answers (London). comicbooks.com