Life, 1928-08-16 · page 44 of 48
Life — August 16, 1928 — page 44: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **humorous anecdotes and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main cartoon illustrates "Embarrassing Moments"—a social etiquette joke where someone mistakes a bank president for his butler, then tries to seem unbothered by lighting a Murad cigarette. Below are brief humor pieces: "Washington vs. Ananias" contrasts George Washington's famous honesty with Ananias (a biblical liar), implying even an honest man would believe Washington. "The Railway Sandwich" mocks how poor-quality sandwiches served on trains barely qualify as meals. The right side consists almost entirely of **period advertisements**, including Marmola prescription tablets for weight loss (marketed heavily to women as essential for attractiveness), and Reddy golf tees. There's also a brief anecdote about a Black domestic worker whose "day off" comment about working outside the home being her only rest reveals the harsh conditions of that era's domestic labor. The page is typical early-20th-century Life magazine content: light satire mixed with advertising.
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EMBARRASSING MOMENTS When you mistake your Bank President for his own butler... be nonchalant . . . light a MURAD. WASHINGTON VS. ANANIAS Tu Saturday Review offered a prize a few weeks ago for the best example of a brief con- versation between Ananias and George Washing- ton. The winning entry was: Grorct Wasiscron: Sir, I never told a lie. Axanuss: Sir, I believe you. —Christian Register. Wh \ <q 3 j THE RAILWAY SANDWICH Iya recent case Mr. Mead, the Marlborough Street magistrate, ruled that a sandwich does not constitute a meal. And very often it doesn't even constitute a sandwich.—Punch “For sate—Hupmobile 1922, tourin; run any better."—Oakland (Cal.) Tribunc Goop reason for selling.—New Yorker. ‘ould not Reddy Tees are theoriginal and genu- ine. Always first in golfers’ favor. Always first in sales. Sold every- where. Red or yellow. 18 for 25c. THE REDDY ™« ete. uso Be sure you get the original and genuine HER DAYS OF REST A svsugsay woman has a colored day way whose accomplishment of washing and all in one day is a constant cause of boasting ¢ the envious neighbors. One day she commiseen, her marvel on the exigencies of foctune thy drove her, the mother of twelve children, owe Te working by the day. To her surprise, the pices HS one repudiated the pity. Mr “Hard on me, ma‘am? Not a bit x the days I go out are the only chan : Ww. that I gits to rest myself."" ia, J. Mr ONE IN A THOUSAND I. “My wife doesn't loot very well’ be auf oe —Short Sto i Fortunate man; our pockets are always empy, ff! 7: Mr —Humorist (Londos) fl 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 blightto all. Not to good looks only, but to health asd vi doctors warn against it. Women have found an easy, pleasant wy to reduce. It is efficient—you can see that Slender figures now prevail. Excess fat bas been rapidly banished in the past decade, Science has found a common cause of ex cess fat in a certain gland deficiency. Ina gland which largely controls nutrition. It turns food into fuel and energy when it is active. Food goes to fat when it isn’t. By thousands of experiments research men founda way to combat that deficiency. the world over employ it in obesity. The method is embodied in Marmola pre scription tablets, now used for 20. years Milkons of boxes have been employed in fat fedacton: Users have told others, and use has grown to very large proportions. One ‘amply takes four tablets daily untl weight comes down to normal. No abnormal exercise or diet is required, though moder tion helps. . The method is not secret. It is known? every modern doctor. The formula of Marmola appears in every box, also a booklet which explains avs es You know what you st ing, and why. . Gotry Marmola because of what it has done for so many, for so long. Nothing can the place which Marmola has held for 20 yeas without doing what you want done. Go sur today. Marmola prescrij i . Any druggist wea ohare ie: MARMOLA rescription Jablets he Pleasant Way to Reduce comicbooks.com