Life, 1928-12-21 · page 29 of 36
Life — December 21, 1928 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical anecdotes and advertisements typical of Life's humor format. **"Slip"** mocks a travel lecturer whose dramatic tale—a native severing a python's head with one knife stroke—strains credulity. The joke: the lecturer himself undermines his own story by admitting "that could actually have happened," suggesting the original account was implausibly exaggerated. **"Taking No Risks"** presents wordplay on legal strategy: an Irish defendant, advised to plead guilty as a first offender, agrees—then insists he has witnesses to *prove* his guilt, defeating the purpose of a lenient first-offense plea. **"Their Better Halves"** is a verse mocking wives of famous men, suggesting that any woman married to a historically great man must herself be "blind" (foolish) not to recognize his genius. The page is otherwise dominated by period advertisements—Allen's Foot-Ease, Abbott's Bitters, and notably **Forhan's toothpaste**, which claims to prevent pyorrhea (gum disease) by maintaining gum health alongside tooth whiteness. The advertising reflects early-20th-century health anxieties about dental disease.
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r two ww). races): oN). SLIP Wir the lecture season in full swing we ave reminded of a certain lecturer who talks about explorations he has made into dangerous lands. Once he held an audience spellbound with the recital of a South Seas adventure he had had in a skiff. Into the craft dropped a large and agile python which encircled a native woman who was in the boat. Another native drew a long knife. “I saw him raise it,’ said the lecturer. ‘There was a flash and off fell the python’s head, The native had severed it with one blow." There was a momentary pause while the audience murmured its awe and its envy of the man who had witnessed scenes like this. “And they tell me,’* resumed the lecturer a moment later, rather absently, ‘‘that could actu- ally have happened.""—New Yorker. In a Pinch use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE GRADED Nor all the cigars in the tobacconists’ windows ue meant for smoking, says a trade-paper. That explains much. The man in our compart- ment the other night must have been smoking a cooking cigar—Punch, “L nave no luck with women “Lucky fellow!"—Nebelspalter (Zurich). Sut: Hello? How did you find yourself? | He: Well, 1 jus’ looked under the table an’ | golf to the Scotch, says, however, that a game there 1 was! —Everypopy’s Weexty (Loxpon). Scroosoy howler in history: ‘Raids were made on Britain by the pigs and sots."” —London News and Westminster. 27 j TAKING NO RISKS Aw Inisiatan, who had been advised by his solicitor to plead guilty as a first offender, stood in the dock. “Are you guilty or not guilty?” asked the | magistrate. “Guilty, yer Honor, and I've got witnesses to prove it," replicd the prisoner. —Weekly Telegraph (Sheffield) Nothing better for slugeish appetite than Abbott's Bitters. Sample by mail, 25 cts C. W. Abbott & Co. Baltimore, Md. THEIR BETTER HALVES Wivts of great men all remind us, As we scan their mien and gait, That the men who were as blind as That, cannot have been so great. —Dublin Opinion. A sports writer, attributing the origin of remotely resembling golf was played by the | Dutch even earlier, Our game, evidently, is the | Dutch version.—drkansas Gazette, A Waste sasker must embitter a circular letter that has crossed the country in a plane. —Akron Beacon-Journal. uublished every Friday, simultaneously in the United States, n, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S. Lire is ind illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights itain apply to Live, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Londo, B.C. England. The foreign ‘trade supplied from Live's ny fice, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. No contributions will be'returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Live does mot hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the date of issue to affected. All communications ‘shoud. be addressed to LIFE, $98 Madison Avenue, New York. Yearly Subscription Rate, $5.00 (Canadian, $5.80; Foreign, $6.60). White teeth deceive 4 out of 5 BECAUSE : : teeth are only as healthy as the gums S° many people think they are secure when teeth are gleaming white. But too often they surrender to a disease of neglect—Pyorrhea. Lurking behind clean teeth is this marauder that takes high toll in health from 4 persons out of 5 after forty, and thousands younger. It ignores the teeth and attacks the gums, Take this precaution: See your dentist every six months. And start using the dentifrice that cleans teeth without the use of harsh abrasives and at the same time helps keep the gums firm and healthy. As you know, Pyorrhea seldom attacks healthy gums. Morning and night, every day, use Forhan’s for the Gums. Massage your gums daily with this dentifrice, following directions in booklet that comes with tube. Then you provide the protection teeth and gums must have. At all druggists—in tubes, 35c and 60c. Formula of R. J. Forhan, D, D. S. Forhan Company, New York. Forhans for the gums YOUR TEETH ARE ONLY AS HEALTIWY AS YOUR GUMS comicbooks.com