Life, 1928-04-12 · page 41 of 42
Life — April 12, 1928 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two main elements: **"Was I Ever That Fat?" (Left):** A Marmola diet-pill advertisement disguised as a testimonial. The cartoon shows a woman looking at her former fat self in a mirror. The satire targets the diet-pill industry's false promises—Marmola claimed to work without "abnormal exercise or diet," merely by controlling nutrition through prescription tablets. The ad's pseudo-scientific language ("increases the factor which turns food into fuel") masked what was essentially an unregulated weight-loss product. The cartoon's ironic title suggests skepticism about such easy solutions. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary" (Center-Right):** A society gossip column continuing from page 18, written by Baird Leonard. It chronicles upper-class domestic trivialities—organizing closets, attending luncheons with overcooked lobster. The tone gently mocks the shallow preoccupations of wealthy women. **Right Side:** Advertisements for heating products (Corto radiators, Redflash boilers) and travel services (Dean & Dawson tours). The page primarily advertises consumer products to affluent readers during the early 20th century.
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Was I Ever That Fat? She reduced in this easy way A large percentage of the over-fat have lost that excess in late years. Abnormal figures are exceptions now. People all about you have learned by experience how easy it is to reduce. The modern way is Marmolaprescrip- tion tablets, People have used them for 2 —millions of boxes of them. They have told the results to others, and the use has spread. Now slender figures everywhere show what Marmola does, Marmola supplies a substance which largely controls nutrition. It aims to in- crease the factor which turns food into fuel and energy rather than into fat. There are no secrets about it. The form- ula appears in every box, also explana- tions of results, This to avoid any fear of harm, No abnormal exercise or diet is_re- quired, though moderation helps. One simply takes four tablets daily until weight comes down to normal. Go let Marmola do for you what it has done for so many. Watch the results in new beauty, new vitality, new health. Then tell your friends who need it. Order now, before you forget it, and learn what folly it is to stay fat. Marmola prescription tablets are sold by all druggists at $1 per box. I your druggist is out, he will get them at once from his jobber. MARMOLA Drescription Tablet: re Blea: fs mt Way to’ "Reduce No matter whether you plan to spend $300 or $3000, our specially prepared descriptive booklet, sent free on request, will be invaluable. Tours with escort. Independent Tours, Private Auto Tours. DEAN «DAWSON, Lta. 500 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. Established $7 years 40 European Offices PARIS. ROME LONDON CAIRO ife Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 18) but think that if George Ade’s young woman who knew that Colum- bus discovered America and what kind of cold cream to use and let it go at that had only added to her lore the fact that there must always be at least four times as much oil as vinegar, some splendid home mission- ary work would have been started in the Nineties which by this time would have attained a ripe fruition. I do well recall how a citizen who insisted on mixing his own salad dressing was once regarded as a comic figure, when in reality he was but an advance guard of civilization, March The morning gone in d straightening out closets 22n and bureau drawers with the help of my servant Virgie, and she did beseech me to shut my eyes and forego every article which I was sure of never requiring in the future, so I did so in the main, but wild horses cannot get me to part with the apricot chemise which is constantly before me as an incentive to lose fifteen or twenty pounds. Nor did Virgie lose by her sage counsel, neither, departing with jewelled hairpins, ete., which would certainly not avail the Salvation Army much, if aught. To Marge Boothby’s for luncheon, the lobsters being overcooked to a degree little short of criminal, but the cook was leaving on the morrow, and it was probably her quaint notion of poetic justice. Again did I hear the story of the girl in Alice Foote MacDou- gall’s into whose coffee an older woman managed to slip a pill of some kind, making the fifteenth time this week, and always has it b told by some one who had per: knowledge of the two observe: the neighboring table, which is a strange comment, methinks, on the psychology of that portion of the human race which has had educa- tional advantages. Home betimes, finding my new pinky-red and white dishes awaiting me, to my great de- light, for they are full of charm and cheer, and so like the ones I re- member at Great-Aunt Cornelia’s. Nor shall anybody ever learn how little I laid out for them, neither. The barber come to trim me, but I did stay his hand from too much ravage, being minded now. for the third time to let my hair grow long again, but this time I shall get a wig to tide me through the terrible straggly stage, having on former oc- casions lost no fewer than six false chignons in the street. Baird Leonard. “Ihe Worlds Finest Heating Products seoeeee AT POPULAR PRICES The Radiator Classic Give Perfect Heating at Lowest Fuel Cost HE introduction of these new American Radiator Products, at popular prices, marks another advance in the health and living comfort of the home owners of America. The beautiful new Ideal Redflash Boiler with long double flue gallery is highly efficient; completely equipped: thoroughly and indestructibly insulated; and its doors are porcelain enameled, insuring lasting beauty. An _ Ideal Redflash Boiler and *‘American’’ Corto Radia- tors assure you a lifetime of heating comfort with the ut- most economy. AMERICAN RADIATOR COMPANY Samples and Demonstration at All First Class Heating Merchants’ Stores AMERICAN RADIATOR COMPANY, Ade. Doot 40 West 40th Street, New York City! © (Life—4-12-28) Please send me descriptive Uterature about your new heating and hot water supply products. comicbooks.com