Life, 1928-01-26 · page 32 of 34
Life — January 26, 1928 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and administrative content** rather than political satire or comics. The main visual elements are ads: Bellans indigestion relief (featuring a digestive system cartoon labeled "Mr. Orange"), and a Seald-Sweet juice extractor ad showing a mechanical device. The "Thoughts on Browsing Around" poem by D.R.S. satirizes **1920s consumer culture and mass-market publishing**—mocking the proliferation of cheap, disposable books ("ten cents each") flooding stores and streets. The repeated "bunk! bunk! bunk!" refrain criticizes the decline from serious literature to pulp junk, expressing nostalgia for quality over quantity. The page also contains **Life magazine's Fresh Air Fund** financial statement (a charitable initiative providing recreation for underprivileged children) and an **Important Notice** announcing a publication schedule change from Tuesday to Friday delivery. No specific political figures or events are referenced. This reflects typical Life magazine content mixing humor, social commentary on consumer trends, and institutional information.
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30 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief FOR_INDIGESTION 25¢ and 75¢ Pkg’s.Sold Everywhere Bottoms up, Mr. Orange! Mail the coupon for a 3-day trial of this last- drop, instant Seald-Sweet juice extractor. Here's the perfect juice extractor! It’s a wonder! A turn of the handle and out comes ali the juice—no more of the tedious wrestling with the old style squeezer. Clamps firmly to any shelf or table—no more chasing the old dish hither and yon. It's quick—easy—neat—and thorough. Send for it. Try it. Just clip and mail the coupon with check or money order for $3 en- closed. Or—send one wrapper from a Seald- Sweet orange or grapefruit and your dealer's name with the coupon, and the price is $2.00. If you aren't delighted with this Seald-Sweet extractor, return it within 3 days and your money will be returned at once. Though our business is distributing Scald- Sweet, Florida's finest oranges and grapefruit, we think so much of this great little machine we now offer it to you direct, at a bargain price. Florida Citrus Exchange, Tampa—Distribu- tors of Florida's Finest Oranges, Grapefruit and Tangerines. Florida Citrus Exchange 403 Citrus Exchange Bldg., Tampa, Fla. Please send me 1 Seald-Sweet Extractor for trial. I enclose $3—check or money order— ($2 if with dealer's name and 1 Seald-Sweet wrapper). If the extractor js not satis 1 will retusn it after 3 days for refund. Life Thoughts on Browsing Around Books! books! books! books ! Tomes! tomes! tomes! tomes! Books for butlers, books for cooks, Books on travel, books on homes! Books on how to make you fatter, Books on how to make you thin- ner! Books more mad than any hatter, Books to save the erring sinner! Shelves! shelves! shelves! shelves! Bogged and laden down with books! Books to rouse your hidden selves, Books to give you better looks! Stores! stores! stores! stores! Filled with new and _ tattered books ! Books of life on other shores, Books on guns and books on crooks ! Streets! streets! streets! streets! Lined with stores, stores filled with books! Books on babies, books on beets, Books on stones and running brooks! Bunk! bunk! bunk! bunk! Tons of books at ten cents each! Once a brain-child, now it’s junk, Just a pebble on the beach! Buy! buy! buy! buy! Buy a book a week! Gadzooks! In the wilderness I cry, Give us fewer, better books! D.R.S. Tue installment collector meets some of our bust people. Lire’s Fresh Air Fund Receipts and Disbursements for Year 1927 RECEIPTS nt acknowl edg $41,463.41 “In memory of Margaret Louise Dil - Jon,” Portla: Or . “Lukar, Florida 20,00 F. Huber Hodge, 25.00 Wm. C. Hunneman, Bost 3.00 Anonymous, Philadelphia. 10.00 Edward M. Peters, Boston . 3.00 Contr: 10,00 $41,536. Income from Endowments, from aiid Marion Storey, James Buchanan Brady and Reserve Funds, and from Bank Deposits. ... . 1653. Refunds and Allowances. seas | 103.38 $49,293.16 + $11,959.61 5,292.88 3.81 2,465.86 903.25 987-73 1,039.26 2419.90 3,378.49 299-12 979.82 469.73 $33,629.46 + 14,000.01 ‘ood Supplies’. Transportation . Laundry Fuel, Ligh ‘pairs Equipment Stationery, Printing and Postage. Telephone’ . Insurance : Miscellaneou: Reserve Fund Cash Balance. IMPORTANT NotTIice/ STARING next week (i. ¢, with the February 2nd issue) LIFE will appear on the news-stands on Friday instead of Tuesday, Subscribers’ copies will be mailed accordingly, to be delivered Friday morning. This change in the day of issue will Serve to expedite the process of print- ing, so that LIFE may be more timely in its comments on current events. We trust that those of our readers who are accustomed to buy LIFE at news-stands will note this change, and will look for the new issue of LIFE every Friday instead of every Tuesday as heretofore. After Graduation, What? A university professor, meeting his co- ed freshmen the other day at a function designed for the purpose of acquaintance with them, sought to speak jovially with the up-and-coming young ladies, and said bluffly to a bright blonde girl: “Well, what are you out for—a job? And the girl answered with quict em- phasis: “A job, and then a husband, and THEN a job!"—Boston Transcript. A susisten tells me of an amusing slip of the tongue which he perpetrated the other day. Quoting an old proverb, he said: “The proof of the pudding is in the evening.” It scems to me he wasn't so far wrong after all. —C. J. A., in London Daily News. 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