Life, 1919-07-03 · page 38 of 52
Life — July 3, 1919 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and humor snippets** typical of Life's satirical format. **Main Content:** The "Our Foolish Contemporaries" section collects brief jokes mocking everyday absurdities. The opening anecdote contrasts academic history with WWI combat, suggesting that *experiencing* history is harder than studying it—a pointed post-war commentary. Other jokes target domestic life: a baby who sleeps when father's away (implying the child dislikes him), inheritance taxes reframed as marital blame, and a joke about Turkish draft limits expanding to include men with many wives (mocking polygamy and Ottoman practices). **Advertisements:** The page features period product ads: Allen's Foot-Ease, a "Sexology" self-help book, Egyptian Deities cigarettes (appealing to "culture and refinement"), Cortez cigars, and Waterman fountain pens. **Tone:** Typical of 1920s Life—domestically focused humor, light social satire, and marketing of consumer goods to middle-class readers.
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Back to the Easier Job A professor of history met one of his class who had returned from fighting on the western front, and asked if he had learned any particular lesson from the war. “Yes. I have, professor,” replied the young man, “1 discovered that it is a great deal easier studying history than it is making it.” —tladies’ Home Journal, An Object of Affection Faresv: 1 suppose the baby is fond of you? Para: Fond of me? Why, he sleeps all day when I'm not at home, and stays up all night just to enjoy my society? —Rochester Post-Express. Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Countercharge “ Father, what's an inheritance tax?” asked Bobby ‘It's when your mother blames all your faults on me, son.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. Tie undertaker, who displayed a“ Sure, we'll finish the job” loan poster in his window had an eye to business. —Manchester Union SEXOLOG by William H. Walling, A.M., M.D. imparts in a clear, wholesome way, in one volume: Keowiedse a Father Shoold Laat to Hs Seo. Medical Koowledce a Hesband Should Have. Ww “Other People’s Opinions’ and Tale of Contents. PURITAN PUB. CO.. 737 PERRY BLDG, PHILA., P. EGYPTIAN 3 DEITIES The Difference Mane Suorren some fillet CurrK My wife sent me for For yourself or for her? Mate Storrer: What difference does that make? Creek: Hf it's for yourself, it’s beet ; if it’s for her, it’s lace. —Edinburgh Scotsman Turkey's Draft Limit Geeman: [hear that they are raising the draft limits in Turkey. Norman: Yes, the draft will now in- clude all males having from eighteen to forty-five wives —Omaha News. atkoxize the Hotel Bolsheviki; two thousand rooms and a bath —Purple Cow. Waterman's — === “The Utmost in Cigarettes” Plain End or Cork Tip. People of culture and refinement invariably PREFER ‘Deities to any other cigarette | If You Are Leaving Town please advise us of any intended change in your address The post office forwards only letters to changed addresses, not papers. Send us prompt notice or your copies will be lost Notice must reach us ten days in advance by the Monday of the week preceding the date of changing the address. LIFE 17 West 3lst Street, New York Subscription Department “MADE AT KEY WEST — Ideal ~ fountain Pe “Sign Here’”’ Three types, Regular, Safety and Self-Filling Sold at Best Dealers $2.50 and up L. E. WATERMAN COMPANY, 191 Broadway, New York Boston Chicago San Francisco WEANING HIM comicbooks.comfl