Life, 1920-02-26 · page 15 of 40
Life — February 26, 1920 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical content typical of Life magazine's humor format. The main illustration depicts an interior scene with a woman at a vanity table and another figure entering, captioned "IN THE DAYS GONE BY" with a quote about a visitor named Bridget waiting. Below are three separate humor sections: 1. **"Leap Year Insurance"** - A satirical insurance advertisement listing absurd coverage items (loss of liberty, compulsory church attendance, golf losses) with comedic valuations, poking fun at insurance industry practices. 2. **"Helpful Praying"** - A brief anecdote mocking a foreign missionary woman's complaints about prayer meeting interruptions. 3. **Two brief dialogue jokes** between characters Scott and Jackson about church ideals, and a publisher's comment about bestselling authors writing prefaces. The overall tone satirizes early 20th-century social conventions, religious practices, and commercial absurdities.
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SS SSS SSS Mistress of 1860: IN THE DAYS GONE BY T WISH TO GOODNESS YOU WOULD COME MORE PROMPTLY WHEN 1 RING, RRIDGET. 1 PAVE REEN WAITING FVFR SO LONG FOR MY FAN, Leap Year Insurance LLIFE'S Insurance Bureau is pleased to offer a leap-year policy for the protection of bachelors. In event of riage, payment will be made on the following basis: Total loss of liberty...... Loss of weekly night at club Loss of week-end fishing trips... Compulsory church attendance Compulsory symphony attendance. Loss of golf Entertaining wife i-ntertaining wifi younger sister Marriage to bridge fiend (loser)... For detailed information concerning premiums, etc., ad- dress tire’s Insurance Bureau. Scott: What is your notion of an ideal church? Jackson: One that meddles with neither politics nor religion. Helpful Praying YOUNG woman, a foreigner, living a home while shs took her train gaging in. the i preparator work of a foreign mis: attended the daily evening prayer meeti made very long extempore prayers, O: rder attended prayer meeting and m ! others were silenced. After onary student hurried to her. What do you mean, interfering and making prayers in s?" she wrathily demanded. “After this you be stil, You don’t n I—I need much to pray. It helps my English!” IRST PROFITEER: In spite of the high pri ple aren't dying of starvation. Seconp Proritrer: No, sir! We've got to put on the screws harder! ed to pray Every night I need to pray ices, peo- “IT CARE not who writes my novels.” said the publisher, “as long as I have a best-selling author to write the prefaces.” comicbooks.com