Life, 1920-03-04 · page 10 of 78
Life — March 4, 1920 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct elements: **"The Euchre Party"** is a satirical allegory comparing international geopolitical conflicts to card games. It references WWI powers—the Kaiser (Germany), the Bolsheviks (Russia), a Profiteer, and Labor—as players competing for world dominance through various "trump" cards (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades). The joke is that Capital and Labor happen to form a winning partnership, tying for first prize. **"Easy"** is a humorous domestic anecdote about a woman seeking multiple items in a department store and receiving overly detailed directions through the building's labyrinthine layout. The page also includes a Loomcraft Silks advertisement featuring men in formal wear. The political satire reflects post-WWI anxieties about competing ideologies and economic systems vying for global influence.
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The Euchre Party T was at the first table of the progressive euchre party In the first game the Kaiser made hearts trump—thec hearts of the whole world. But the Allies had bigger hearts, and the Kaiser lost. In the second game the Bolsheviki made clubs trump. but their opponents, Law and Order, showed them force could never take the world. 7 In the third game a Profiteer made diamonds trump, but his partner trumped his cold-storage-butter ace with a cold- storage-egg card, so diamonds lost. In the fourth game Labor made spades trump. Capit happened to be his partner that game, and together produced. Capital and Labor saw spades were the lucky cards evening, so they made spades trump in every fol game they played, with the result that Capital and Labor tied for first prize. Easy “] WANT some shoe strings, some hairpins, a pair of gloves and a toothbrush,” the woman said. “1 have to catch a train, and have but a few minutes.” “Yes, madam!" the floorwalker responded _bris} “That's the beauty of a department store—get anyt! you want, right under the one roof! Take elevator eleventh floor, shoe department eight aisles to the ri from the main passageway for shoe strings; hairpins in notions department, east side of basement, three aisles be yond hardware; gloves in women’s wear, fifth floor of annex, reached by passageway over street; toothbrush in drugs and toilet-articles department, on balcony, reached by moving stairway, which you will find on your right as you pass the fountain in the florist shop in the center of the main floor.” The Supreme Silk Shirting for Men Look for the Loomcraft name woven in the selvage, or the trade-mark label sewed in the finished shirt. Either means superfine quality. Write for New Book of Silks Ticarer SILKS REO. U.S. Par. Orr, B Ss ye ies Testy Lady (to. gentleman who has accidentally bumped her Couraxy, 315 Fourth Ave.. New York WHY DON’T YOU LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING? The Gentleman: 1M VERY SORRY, MADAM; BUT ONE IS NAT* URALLY DRAWN TO AN ATTRACTIVE LADY, comicbooks.com