Life, 1919-11-27 · page 27 of 36
Life — November 27, 1919 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** rather than political satire. The main content promotes Whitman's chocolates as Christmas gifts, with subsidiary ads for "Brad" sport gloves, a novel called *Mare Nostrum*, and Pinehurst resort facilities. The one satirical piece is titled "Future Historical Item," a brief commentary on proposed national holidays. It satirizes **Soviet labor policy** (implied by references to "proletariat" and "Petrograd"), mocking the bureaucratic problem of establishing too many state holidays. The joke: if workers celebrate birthdays of national heroes constantly, they'll grow exhausted and potentially rebel again—so the regime limits working days to just six, regardless of how many "patriotic" claims exist. This appears dated to the early 1920s post-Russian Revolution era, when American magazines frequently satirized Bolshevik policies as absurdly rigid and ideologically obsessive.
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