Life, 1911-05-25 · page 18 of 42
Life — May 25, 1911 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon satirizes wealthy leisure: a man offers "five tickets for the Yale-Harvard game" as a cheap sale item—suggesting even premium entertainment has lost value, likely referencing post-WWI economic uncertainty or market saturation among the affluent. "Man-flight Resumes" discusses aviation's commercial future. The text humorously warns that airplane manufacturing will boom like automobiles did, potentially draining investment capital and destabilizing Wall Street through speculation—a prescient concern about new industries disrupting established markets. The "Aquatic" dialogue jokes about suburban real estate: a homeowner considers building a houseboat rather than a traditional house, possibly mocking uncertain economic times or the absurdity of such hedging strategies. The bottom cartoon depicts marital role-reversal humor: a wife borrows her husband's dress suit for a club smoker while offering her "bloomers" (women's athletic wear) for his class reunion—satirizing changing social conventions and women's increasing public participation in the 1920s.
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FOR SALE—CHEAP FIVE TICKETS FOR THE YALE-HARVARD CAME Man-flight Resumes INCE spring at the end of April began to take itself seriously, it has been warmer going in the Air- flights hereabouts have set in again, and the public begins to be warned to look out for increasing business activity in the manufacture of aeroplanes. It is computed that the half billion dollars or more that we spent last year on automobiles has been earned and paid, and that there is money to spare again now, and that the air machines are going to get their share of it It looks incredible to us, but who dares deny any claim that concerns man-flight? 1f we were stock brokers we would delay no’ longer, but prepare for the worst by learning the aeroplane at once. If it comes with any such rush as the automobiles did, it may put back the recovery of Wall Street no one knows how long, not only by absorbing money in large handfuls, but because its risks make stock speculation look prosaic. Aquatic YER: Going to build on your lot at Swamphurst? Rver: I'm thinking of putting up a house boat. “HENRY, DEAR, I'M OBLIGED TO USE THE DRESS SUIT FOR I" doesn't pay to be right too often, OUR CLUB SMOKER THIS EVENING, BUT 1" FT YOU MY BEST BLOOMERS FOR THAT CLASS REUNION YOU WISH TO ATTEND.” comicbooks.com