Life, 1928-05-24 · page 35 of 38
Life — May 24, 1928 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of 1920s *Life* magazine humor: **"Emotional Moments in the Life of a Flapper"** (center cartoon): A flapper—a young, modern woman of the era—has hit a traffic cop with her car. The joke's punchline advises offering him a Murad cigarette instead of facing consequences. This satirizes both the reckless behavior attributed to "flappers" (women who defied Victorian norms with short skirts, smoking, and driving) and the era's cavalier attitude toward bribery or smoothing over mishaps. The surrounding **humorous anecdotes** mock small-town life and gender dynamics—lost gloves, children's fears, street-washing procedures—typical of *Life*'s satirical bite. **Advertisements** for Marmola (weight-loss tablets), Cortez Cigars, and Mothersill's seasickness remedy occupy the page. The Marmola ad is notably gendered, pressuring women to be "slender" for male approval—reflecting 1920s beauty standards and advertising's manipulative tactics.
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A CRY FROM MACEDONIA to in a Walsenburg (Cal.) paper: “Lost— Somewhere on the battle-scarred streets of Walsenburg one pair of gents’ (?) fur-lined id gloves. These gloves were a Christmas resent from the Mrs, She gives me until Toesday to get them back, so whoever found them bave a heart as every one knows what brides are these days. Bang! Bang! Flow- es’—Literary Digest. —————— Ss Rita, ten, and Frances, seven, were left alone the house one night. Suddenly “Ill bet you are afraid to * “Oh, no, I'm not,” re- plied F ‘ou come up with me and vee" —Boston Transcript. Lose Fat As She Did Look right, feel right Men want women to be slender. Then why not do what they do? Excess fat is a blight to all Not to good looks only, but to health and All doctors warn against it. n have found an easy, pleasant way to reduce. It is efficient—you_can see that. Slender figures now prevail. Excess fat has been rapidly banished in the past decade. Science has found a common cause of ex- cess fat in a certain gland deficiency. In a fund which largely controls nutrition. It tums food into fuel and energy when it is ative. Food goes to fat when it isn’t. By thousands of experiments research men founda way to combat that deficiency. Doctors the world over employ it in obesity. The method is embodied in Marmola pre- smiption tablets, now used for 20 years. Milions of boxes have been employed in fat reduction. Users have told others, and the we has grown to very large proportions. __ One simply takes four tablets daily until weight comes down to normal. No abnormal aercise or diet is required, though modera- ton helps, The method is not secret. It is known to eery modern doctor. The formula of Marmola apears in every box, also a booklet which plains results. You know what you are and why. Gotry Marmola because of what it has done ft so many, for so long. Nothing can hold the place which Marmola has held for 20 years ikea doing what you want done. Go start " yarmol Prescription, cemsay'd are zsold by all druggists at $1 per box. Any druggist tho is ‘out will order from his jobber. MARMOLA Prescription Tablet: he Pleasant Way toReduce O. G 2. Yn, a ‘a WRN WY \Y LULA. EY LM FISH Ll EMOTIONAL MOMENTS IN THE LIFE OF A FLAPPER When you have unexpectedly run over a traffic cop, don’t wait for him to get up and bawl you out, but . . . Offer him a MURAD © P. Lorillard Co., Fat. 1760 HAWAIIAN VERSION A MAINLAND tourist journeyed from Hono- lulu to historic Kona on the Island of Hawaii. Fired by romantic tales, he felt sure he had reached a land where nothing savoring of Western civilization would be permitted to disturb the tropical atmos- phere. When, in the course of his wanderings, he reached a small village by the seashore he became exceedingly interested in a tame mynah bird displayed by a picturesque Ha- waiian maid. But he was due for a rude shock. “What's the bird's name?” he inquired. “Mary Pickford, sir,” was the answer. —Honolulu Star-Bulletin, “Main Street will be washed shortly after 11 ¥. . this evening. No parking will be allowed on this street during this time. “E. A. JAMES, Superintendent of Public Works.” ~Salamanca (N. Y.) Republican-Press. Iw Salamanca, when they wash a street, they simply can't do a thing with it. —New York World. SN Re . 4 Sea SICKNESS —in the roughest waters. This ap- palling nausea is unnecessary suf- fering. Mothersill's prevents Travel Sickness on your journeys by Sea, Train, Auto, Car or Air, ” risa & $1.30 at Drug Stores or direct @ Mothersill Remedy Co, Ltd. eqtow OF BRAINS IGARS Ee -MADE AT KEY WEST comicbooks.com