Life, 1928-10-12 · page 34 of 44
Life — October 12, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and charitable notices** rather than political satire. **Content:** The main advertisements are for **Daniel Hays Gloves** ($5.00, featuring Calfskin pull-on styles) and **Eveready Batteries** (flashlights). There's also a **Bayer Aspirin** ad emphasizing it's the genuine product. **Non-commercial content:** A poem titled "To the Impossible She" by Norman R. Jaffray uses the metaphor of "parallel lines" that "could not hope to meet" to express romantic longing for an ideal soulmate destined by fate but forever out of reach—a melancholic meditation on romantic impossibility rather than satire. The **Life's Fresh Air Fund notice** describes a 41-year-old charitable initiative providing country holidays for poor urban children, soliciting donations at $20 per child. **Bottom line:** This is a standard magazine page mixing advertisements with a sentimental poem and charity notices—there is no discernible political cartoon or satire present.
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é yava toga cA pull-on glove in strong, flexible Calfskin that will give astonishingly long service. Flared side vent, slips on and off so easily—no button to fasten. Hand cut, hand sewed back and hem—and washable! In new Autumn shades of Creme and Russet. A glove of distinction for street wear or driving. Daniel Hays Gloves Stitcheswillnet ravel even though, thread ds cut or broken All those in favor of LIGHT —say “Eveready.” That's the good word wherever it’s a ques- tion of flashlight or flashlight battery. “Eveready” means what it says—on the job every time you need it—coming through with a big, white beam that drives a bright path through the black- est gloom. When it’s so dark outside that a Senegambian looks like a Nordic blonde, the flash- light habit will keep you on the side of safety. Get the flashlight idea, and get this one with it: No flashlight is better than its battery and no battery is better than Eveready. Eveready Batteries are packed full of power, stacked to the rim with endurance. They’re full of the stuff that makes light, as they prove in record service. Insist on genuine Eveready Batteries when you reload your flashlight. ES To the Impossible She Orten I've hoped the Planets would com- bine To throw my way that person who by Fate Was destined to become my proper mate According to the Deities’ design: A lovely creature, built along my line, Who spoke my language, and whose every trait Most fortunately chanced to duplicate The little modes and manners that were mine. And yet, if such a complement to me (Ah, such a perfect twin of mine!) existed, So subtly are the strands of Fortune twisted That still remote, intangible she’d be: For even though we passed, upon the street, Like parallel lines, we could not hope to meet. Norman R, Jaffray. Lire’s Fresh Air Fund Lire’s Farsit Ain Funo has been in operation Jor the past forty-one years. In that time it he expended $419,278.00 and has given a hep holiday in the country t0 51,000. poor city ah dren. Twenty dollars, approximately, pays for suc « holiday jor some poor child front the oct city streets. Won't you help? = Contributions (which are acknowledged ig Live about four weeks after their receipt) should be made payable to Lark's Faust Ain Foro, end sent to 598 Madison Avenue, New York. Previously acknowledged Wells Fargo Ostrander, M. C. W._ Buchenberger, Kathryn E. Tuttle, Glen Mrs. Roger Deart Francisco A Little Ant L. L. Jones, Readi Missing Links Golf Clu t. Head, L orth Hero, Proceeds ‘of Rummage Sale, “Magic Lan- tern Show and Indian Dance given by some little boys of Whee! v ‘a. Frank Case, New York... The whole world knows Aspirin as 2 effective antidote for pain. But it’s just o important to know that there is only one genuine Bayer Aspirin, The name Bayer is on every tablet, and on the box. If it says Bayer, it’s genuine; and if it doesn't, it 8 not! Headaches are dispelled by Bayer Aspirin. So are colds, and the pain that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and rheumatism promptly relieved. Ge Bayer—at any drugstore—with proven & rections, Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufactet of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid comicbooks.com