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The main cartoon "He lost the account" depicts a workplace scenario where an employee (Blake) fails to laugh at his boss's (the President's) joke, costing him a client account that goes to a rival (Donnelly). The satire mocks rigid corporate hierarchies and the performative nature of office politics—where genuine human response (laughter) is weaponized as a measure of loyalty and competence. Blake's literal inability to laugh due to chapped lips becomes the vehicle for social commentary about how arbitrary workplace dynamics are: a physical ailment destroys professional standing. The irony is intentional: the page then advertises Frostilla lotion to cure "HA-HA'S" (chapped skin), using pseudo-scientific language. The ad capitalizes on the very anxiety the cartoon just created—that minor physical flaws can sabotage your career. The surrounding content includes miscellaneous humorous vignettes about aging, marital life, and dubious patent medicine testimonials—typical Life magazine fare satirizing American social pretension and commercial hucksterism.

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HE President had told his best story. He chuckled expectantly as he looked at Blake. Not a quiver passed Blake's lips. The President frowned. His voice was cold. “Sorry, old man, that order goes to Donnelly”. Poor Blake, he had wanted to laugh at that story, but his lips were cracked! ee 6 -HA'S (chapped skin) affects) one painfully, and has ruined | take cha 1 many a career. HA-HA'S is what is commonly known as chapped skin. But the commonly knowns are not being used, you see. You've got to have fancy names— scientific names. We've been bright. We've chosen an agricultural name—| A HA-HA is an invisible ditch. (Kind- ly turn to Marsh’s Dictionary, P. 332).| HEN your skin is chapped, it is full of HA-HA’S ... tiny ditches, invisible fissures, furrows, gaps.| Painful, unsightly, dangerous. HA- HA'S (chapped skin) can be cured, of course. The cure is Frostitta! HIS delightfully fragrant lotion banishes HA-HA’S with the speed of a Byrd flight. Knead it gently into the skin and watch that sapless, corru gated, arid, desiccated surface become| as smoothly supple-soft as an infant's dimpled chin. There’s no after sticki- ness to Frostita. It vanishes like a cooling mist. Its action is unfailing. OSTILLA comes in the bounti- ful new dollar bottl—and there's; a smaller size at 50c. At druggists tried and true, and all good toilet counters.| The Frostilla Co., Elmira, New York, U.S.A.| Life Old Age Looks Forward re pretty generally reputed on the wheels of prog it will be reealled how «a mous man a and admirals and ry fa after sixty and that th along without any of the | knowledge which men over forty had con- tributed to it. Something like that he said, not seriously but merely to amuse and when the It with it what a din and his invi- an audience, had duly And one re tation to ward and But. really and by rights the ven should be the forwardest-looking nle on earth, be- cause forward is the only attractive di- rection that is left for them to look in, If they look back, t people they knew are not there. youth that looks back. a n old school! world It is There is nothing Everything That is because his world is still there, and pe still in it that he of something. Not so with th Their world is a has-been, and if an remind der peo- e not to be has-beens, they yes to the front That's Ahead and Meanwhile,” Martin (Harpers) Sara Wiseyes Sara Wiseves is six She smokes cigarette And is astantly, as in lorie that S. farm woman mother idl little e down and cried When she gave her first grocery order Which included a plug of Horseshoe. She was afraid the clerk wouldn't realize It was for her husband —N. L. W., in Kansas City Star. The Truth at Last Tur truthfulness of people who write in praise of patent arvelous cures they have experienced, is sometimes called) in’ question. ‘The fol . Which is from the opening ser a recent te may throw some light on this problem of veracity: y ago I was stricken with rheumatism from head to foot; hands, and only with turn in bed, where I lied in —Manchester G licines, telling of wing quote Some three and 4 not ¢ able to use my All In Tur caller wanted to sce the man of the house. “Is he int he inquired of the wife “Yes,” sh idk. “Can I him?" “No, he’s in for drunk and disorderly —Smith's Weekly (Sydney). Tue eminent scientist, Charles Nord mann, says the sun is good tor 150,000, 000,000 years. ast man uplifted and reformed That gives the world time to get by law.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the | New PocketGen The New Model Pocket Ben ranks high among good watches. That’s be- cause it combines good looks with cor- rect time-keeping. Sold everywhere for $1.50. With night- and-day dial $2.25 Built by the makers of Big Benand other Westclox | WESTERN CLOCK COMPANY La Salle, Illinois leseue re comicbooks.com