Life, 1929-05-24 · page 33 of 36
Life — May 24, 1929 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **primarily advertisements** rather than satirical cartoons. **Left side:** A Squibb's Dental Cream ad featuring an illustration of a man offering toothpaste to a woman, promoting dental hygiene for smokers. The pitch is that brushing with Squibb's between cigarettes maintains fresher breath and healthier gums—a straightforward product advertisement reflecting 1929's casual attitude toward smoking. **Right side:** An advertisement for the "Silver King" golf ball, now priced at 85 cents, marketed as the lowest price in its "long and distinguished history." **Center:** "Mrs. Pep's Diary" is a continuing serialized column recounting mundane domestic life—social visits, conversations about marriage, singing, and reading. It's humorous social commentary on middle-class women's lives rather than political satire. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and leisure activities rather than containing the political cartoons a modern reader might expect from a "satirical magazine."
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TWICE BETWEEN the first puff of the morning and the last one at night, there’s plenty of time for a second thought. Smoking can be ever so much more delightful if Squibb’s Dental Cream is there to help you. For, no matter how often you smoke, there’s always new zest waiting, if you brush your teeth “with Squibb’s. Start one of your smoking days with Squibb’s. All day long, you'll notice a brisker, snappier smoke appetite. °Cause the particles of Squibb’s Milk of Magnesia that | cling to the gums and tooth crev- ices refresh and protect your mouth, 40c a generous tube at all drug stores. © 1929 by E.R. Squibb & Sons | GUARD THE DANGER LINE Life Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from Page 18) slightest exhibition of strength on her opponents’ part causes her pugnaci- ously to double them, a system of pro- cedure which contributes naught to either the solvency or longevity of her partners. So we did talk of this and that, and Laura told me how a Mistress Ogilvie of her village, confronted in the night by a burglar who demanded that she quit her bed and open the wall-safe, had successfully insisted on his fetching her negligee from an un- reachable chaise longue before she would oblige him. Jane O'Brien of Buffalo for tea, my own brightened and enriched by the three saltines which | saved and secreted from my luncheon quota, and we did plan songs for our class reunion in June, singing over some of the old tunes with such aban- don that Katie was drawn unduly from her kitchen, and we did agree that the one to the “Barcarolle” which has stood us in such stead for years and goes “Here we come, Decrepit alum— Nae, all on the bum, you see; Limping some and toothless of gum, We're not what we used to be...” might be too near the truth this time to awaken the mirth it caused when we were but one-year fledglings, albeit I do feel that shingled hair and shorter, simpler fashions have done much to save women from the appearance of the archaic classes to which they may actually belong. This night Sam and I did spend with our books, he reading “The Pathway” and now and then bedeviling me with such suggestions of Mr. Williamson's as how the Bible could stress the divinity of Christ's birth and also refer to His royal lineage from David through Joseph. And so, weary from mental strain, to bed 31 * Golfers! The SILVER KING is now Boe 810 a dozen We announce with pleas- ure that you can buy the “King o’ Them All” in 1929 for 85 cents — the lowest price at which this ball has sold in a long and distinguished Silvertown Company London John Wanamaker, New York Wholesale Golf Distributors ———— comicbooks.com