Life, 1928-10-12 · page 36 of 44
Life — October 12, 1928 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humor pieces and advertisements typical of 1920s Life magazine: **Main Cartoon ("Emotional Moments in the Life of a Flapper"):** Depicts a young woman admiring herself in a mirror while considering purchasing a new dress, though she owes her dressmaker money. The joke plays on the "flapper" lifestyle—young women of the Jazz Age known for fashion-consciousness and spending habits. The solution offered is a Murad cigarette advertisement, humorously suggesting smoking as stress relief from financial worry. **Short Jokes:** Include observational humor about modern manners (rapid RSVP requests via airmail), parental authority eroding, and trains as "observation cars" for socializing. **Advertisements:** The page heavily features Marmola weight-loss tablets and the Russell Patterson School of illustration, reflecting 1920s preoccupations with slenderness and vocational training. The Marmola ad emphasizes that "excess fat" has become unfashionable and claims scientific glandular solutions. **Overall Context:** The page reflects 1920s values: consumerism, modern technology, changing gender roles, and beauty standards emphasizing thinness.
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MAKING IT SNAPPY Hostess in Chicago Who invited Some New York friends To a party Asked for reply By air mail. This seems to be The first case Of R. S. V. P. D. Q. —Arkanias Garets, NOT SO VERY “Ane all of your boys and girls young <2 dren?” “Well, they used to think I could do am thing, but now they are beginning to have the doubts.""—Youngstown Telegram. Osstavarion Car: A vehicle on a talleal in which large, prosperous-looking people sit ad observe each other.—Detroit News. 16 and 40 No Excess Fat EMOTIONAL MOMENTS THE LIFE OF A FLAPPER When you want to order a new frock and your dressmaker reminds you that you owe her a “little” bill... Light a MURAD. It’s easy to avoid Everybody knows that excess fat is nowhere near so common as it was. Mothers like daughters. Slender figures are the rule You should know how scientific research has © P. Lorillard Co., Fat. 1760 MUMOROU™ WUrRATgY ‘Refer Varta Now you can enjoy a really up-to-date training in this attractive field, full of sparkle and dash— a radical departure and pleasant relief from old fashioned courses and an- tiquated methods. Pre- pare for a career in this delightful. well-paid pro- fession. Write for free il- lustrated book, “The Last Word in Humorous IIlus- tration.” The Russell Patterson School Michigan Ave, at 20th St., Dept. 5 CHICAGO, ILL. OVER THE HILL— Tux picrure on the screen showed a poor old woman, cast off by her cruel children, wudging wearily along the road. The pathos of it brought tears to the eyes of a well-dressed woman who sat with her little boy in one of the front rows. The boy heard his mother sob. “Don’t worry, Ma,’ he said comfortingly. “When I grow up to be a man I won't let you go to the poorhouse like that."* “Won't you, dear? What will you do?” “T'M get you a taxi.""—Boston Transcript. HABITAT: EITHER POLE Tue rourrn grade had been studying the poles in class. “‘Johnny,"* said the teacher, “what is it that lives near the poles? It is white and its name begins with a ‘B.’ * Jounxy: Oh, yes, I know, teacher—Com- mander Byrd!—Aero Digest. One of the saddest disillusionments is to go back and find your homesickness wasn't worth while,—S¢. Louis Globe-Democrat. brought this change about. Sefence has overed that a great cause of excess fat lies in a deficient gland. No starvation, no over-work can cure it. The cause must be corrected, and lies in a gland which largely controls nutrition. | F Mees cae Toa} capety the eT attack that cause. They supply the 3 is why excess fat has so fast disappeared is late years. Slender figures are the vogue. A medical ratory, years 8g% embodied this new method in Marmola pre scription tablets. People have used them for over 20 years—millions of boxes of them. You see the resultswherever you look. Thereisnew youth and beauty, new health and vitality. Ey cess fat is nowhere near as common as it wa. Do what these people have done—mul+ tudes of them, for 21 years, They bave 28 the fat go, seen new youth and vigor back. Friends all about you will testify to tht Every box of Marmola contains the formuls, also the reasons for results. You will know exactly why th . Get beck to normal atisa ways when the cause is ended. Start now. larmola prescription tablets are pice Seeea tras: out them at onee from his jobber. MARMOLA Whe Pleasant Way comicbooks.com