Life, 1919-09-25 · page 32 of 40
Life — September 25, 1919 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with scattered humor content typical of Life magazine's satirical format. ## Main Content: **"Our Foolish Contemporaries"** section contains three brief humorous anecdotes: - A deaf-mute stepping on a tack (visual joke about silent expression) - A Scottish emigrant exploiting a clothier's politeness by trying on 30 coats while watching the time - A critique of government officials lacking eloquence **"Conflicting Attitudes"** cartoon satirizes labor disputes: an employee demands an 8-hour workday and fair wages, but when offered management responsibility, suddenly worries about stress and financial risk—highlighting the hypocrisy or naiveté of labor demands without accepting corresponding accountability. ## Advertisements: Multiple product ads including Waterman fountain pen ink, Tareyton cigarettes, Major's Cement, and White Rock water dominate the page—standard commercial content for the era. The page reflects early 20th-century American workplace tensions and Scottish-American immigrant stereotypes common to period humor.
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‘LIF E* Best for General Use As Well L. E. Waterman Co. , 191 Broadway “4 New York FOOLISHA CONTEMPO ARIES The silent but awful remark That over the deaf-mute’s fingers flows Willing to Oblige When he steps on a tack in the dark. A Scottish emigrant on his arrival at Montreal, stopped for a moment to ex; amine a coat hanging in front of a cloth- ing store, when the proprietor asked him if he would not try on a coat. “T dinna ken but [ wad,” responded the emigrant, consulting his watch; and he went in and set to work. No matter how often he found a fit, he tried on another and another till he tried on about thirty. Then, again looking at his watch, he resumed his own garment and walked off saying: “Weel, I've lost time, nae doot, but hang the fellow that'll no’ obleege Ay anither when he can!” —Scottish American, dar Cigarettes One is Enough Herbert Tareyton London Smoking Mixture An evening newspaper suggests a new imple upon request Cobinet officer, a Secretary of English Falk Tobacco Co. Inc., 1786 Broadway, New York But why expect more than one personage in an administration to have the gift of The Best for Repairing Glassware perfect expression?—N. Y. Herald. Crockery, Vases, Meerschaum, Furniture, — Books, Tipping Billiard Cues, &e. oe ? It’s unfortunate that a blockade can't Use Major’s Cement). y)cr'rurss hat 3 Mockate cant Rubber and leather. Hae) three kinds, 15¢ per with it.—Joplin (Mo.) News-Herald. bottle. Dealers: Please send for special effet! Ea, 1876 Mite Rock “The World's Best Table Water’. ‘FOUNTAIN PEN INK The Little Moment of Happiness By Clarence Budington Kelland The biggest problem, the most poignant sites that any American novelist has recently tdid is found in this new book. Thousands of letters to Mr. Kelland who have been stationed truth of the book and the during its serialization in Th HARPER & BROTH NEW . ET your boy have balasccd resdtee, Linziseents prescribed seboot re Ing he needs fhe regular remind fe right kind of hundred thousand American this important combinaties THE “The Biggest, Brightest, Best’ five fer Boye is All te W deorbing fi Gear inoue. EME on yourfamily 200 a copy on wewe-stants 22 4 year by mad Conflicting Attitudes | “You want to manage the busines 3? asked the employer “1 do,” answered the employee “Well, I don't understand it at 2 A little while ago you were demandix eight hours’ work and the assurance ¢ ood compensation. Now you want © shoulder responsibilities that will ke? you worried at least eighteen day, besides taking a chance on broke if the markets happen to slip wrong way.”"—Washington Ster. 2 J RBTELPTLI comicbooks.cOmim