Life, 1913-08-14 · page 29 of 40
Life — August 14, 1913 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** "The Machine Your Chauffeur Told You Was Being Repaired" depicts wealthy passengers in an automobile, implying the vehicle's repair was a pretense—likely the chauffeur used the car for personal outings with companions, a satirical jab at servant dishonesty. **"Some Ideal Logic" Essay:** A philosophical piece by Charles Campbell Jones presenting circular, tongue-in-cheek reasoning about identity and self-perception. It's deliberately convoluted wordplay meant to mock abstract philosophy or self-help thinking popular in the era. **Bottom Cartoon:** "The Turkey Trot or Tango Are Less Objectionable When Danced by the Proper People" shows couples dancing these then-scandalous dances. The satire mocks upper-class hypocrisy: the same dances condemned as immoral when performed by working or immigrant classes become "acceptable" when performed by wealthy, respectable people. It critiques class-based moral double standards.
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THE MACHINE YOUR CHAUFFEUR Some Ideal Logic T is affirmed that you are what you think you are. If you think you are what you think you are you will naturally believe and think that you really think what you are, u only think what you are in truth, you are more than likely to think and believe that you only think you think what you are. If you think you are what you are not, then what you think is what you are, and what you are is not what and what you are is What you think you are not, and what you are not is not what you think you are not, but what you think you are. When what you think you are is not what you think, you are what you think you are, while, as a matter of cold and hard fact, you are what you are, and not at all what you think you think you are. So, if you truly want to be what you think you are, be sure and think only that you are just what you are, rather than what you think. And then it must follow that if you think you are what you are, you are what you think you are. Think it over! Charles Campbell Jones. ea THE TURKEY TROT OR TANGO ARE LESS OBJECTIONABLE WHEN DANCED BY THE PROPER PEOPLE