Life, 1929-03-08 · page 39 of 44
Life — March 8, 1929 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains vintage advertising and humor typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Left side:** An Ex-Lax laxative advertisement using the period medical belief that headaches could indicate constipation. It features cartoon illustrations of suffering patients and promotes the chocolate laxative as gentle relief. The ads include small comic anecdotes (from *Pearson's*, *Tit-Bits*, and *Dublin Opinion*) using headaches and digestive complaints as punchlines—humor that reflected common concerns of the era. **Right side:** Tourist advertising for English abbeys and churches (Durham, Canterbury, etc.) paired with a Cunard Line ocean liner ad promoting transatlantic travel to Europe. The cartoon shows two figures on a desert island with the caption "And don't go following me around, either!"—a domestic quarrel joke typical of the period. The page is primarily **commercial content**—advertisements using both earnest health claims and humor to sell products and travel services to affluent readers.
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Headache may mean constipation Take this safe delicious ... And get relief in a short time T is always well to remember that a headache is often another symptom of constipation. And the correct laxative will bring grateful relief. But instead of nasty, nauseating doses that so often upset the stomach, gripe, and irritate the nerves, take Ex-Lax. It is safe, gentle and effective. It’s the family laxative—good for children and grown-ups. Ex-Lax is pure chocolate treated with tasteless, non-habit-forming phenol- phthalein which is prescribed by phy- sicians for the relief of constipation. Whenever headache, biliousness, list- lessness and other uncomfortable symp- toms flash their warning, take Ex-Lax, without delay. Results will delight you. Get Ex-Lax from your druggist, to- day. Accept no substitutes if you want the best relief. Three sizes, 10c, 25¢ and 50c. You can also obtain Ex-Lax‘‘Fig Flavor’’. FOR CONSTIPATION Theatre (Continued from Page 24) ing is coming into any vogue at all, we might as well teach our actors to project their voices properly and let it go at that. There is np sense in trying to act when the only person you have to feed you and talk to is yourself or a piece of scenery. A while ago to treat a play of Eu- gene O'Neill's flippantly or, conde- scendingly, to pick out its good points would have been presumptuous. An- other like “Dynamo” and it will be about all one can do. And we are promised two more! Docror: “H’m! Severe headaches, bilious attacks, pains in the neck—h'm! What is your age, madam?” Patrent (coyly): “Twenty-four, | doctor.” “H'm!” (continuing to “memory affected, too!” —Pearson’s. write.) A placid old lady who took life phil- osophically sat knitting in the drawing- room. To her there came rushing her fifteen-year-old granddaughter. “Oh, granny, granny,” cried the girl “father’s just fallen off the roof!” “I know, my child,” replied the old lady, without even raising her eyes. “I saw him pass the window.” —Tit-Bits. Horet Proprretor: “I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, to have to an- nounce that the fare this evening may not be up to our usual standard. Our French chef has met with an accident.” Guest: “We're sorry to hear that. How did it happen?” Proprietor: “He cut his finger opening a tin.” —Dublin Opinion. EX-LAX SS) TASTES LIKE CANDY “And don't go following me around, either!” Abbeys and Churches . «in England Reese Centuries old... resplendent «+.there is nothing compar. able to the mellow aisles of Gloucester . . . of Durham's gleaming towers rising above the Tees . . . the Fountains Abbey with the sky for roof «+. or Cripplegate Church, St. Giles, where Milton rests... and Cromwell married . ..the poet's corner of Westminster Abbey... Canterbury and York... You must bring home memo- ries of these, as must abide the memory of a splendid ship that has carried you over and back. Sail in the Aquitania, that great ship of grace, power and steadi- ness—a thoroughbred of spirit, quality and that fine cheerful atmosphere—Cunard breeding, THE AQUITANIA SAILS TO FRANCE AND ENCLAND March 22 + April l7 + May 8 CUNARD LINE ® See Your Local Agent THE SHORTEST BRIDGE TO EUROPE comicbooks.com