Life, 1920-03-25 · page 32 of 40
Life — March 25, 1920 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical humor pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine: **"A Little More than Kin"** is a comedic logic puzzle about tangled family relationships. A man marries his girlfriend's mother, then his father marries the girlfriend. The narrator humorously traces the resulting absurd kinship connections (his wife becomes his mother-in-law, etc.), concluding he's become his own grandfather. It's wordplay satire exploiting confusion over modern remarriage scenarios. **The cartoon below** depicts two men discussing a butcher's pricing; one asks if meat is sold "on the installment plan, or will I have to take a mortgage?"—satirizing the high cost of living and suggesting even basic groceries require financing. Other brief satirical items mock politicians who underestimated women voters, and praise a film censor's "sense of humor" for passing a morality play. The page primarily advertises a **Locomobile automobile**, featuring its hybrid design combining closed and open-car features—not satirical content but commercial messaging typical of Life's mixed editorial-advertising format.
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A Little More than Kin Last year I asked my best girl to be. come my wife, and she said “No!” But I got even with the girl. I married her mother. Then my father married the girl. Now I don't know what I am When I married the girl's mother the xirl became my daughter, and when father married my daughter she was my mother. Who in the dickens am 1? My mother’s mother (which is my wife) must Not Deceiyed ing unmanageable from unknown cause, a Ford car tumed g corner at Eighth Street and Grand An! nue, ran westward and onto the viakg for some distance, then swerved sudie ly and plunged over into the street b low. As the vehicle took the leap 2 driver jumped or was flung out, but me aged to catch on the broken railing. hung for a horrid monient on the brisk death, and then scrambled back to safey Merciful powers!" ejaculated pe destrian below. “What a narrow gf cape!" “Shucks!" returned the gent froal Jimpson Junction, who was on bani be my grandmother, and I being my grand- mother’s husband, I am my own grand- father —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph “That wasn't no escape; it was jus 4 trick of some kind. They can't fe Kansas City Star A Laughing Matter First Director: This new censor bal a keen sense of humor. Srconp Director: What makes pel think so? F. D.: He passed our last. moral play and sent congratulations on “ sparkling comedy.”—Penn State Froth Poetry is the clinking of a couple of unexpected coins in the shabby pocket of life—New York Evening Sun. Tite politicians who used to say wom- en, if given the vote, would never employ it seriously, are now afraid they will. —Boston Transcript. <9 ratte. Jones: VES, “LL TAKE THAT STEAK. DO You SELL ON THE INSTALMENT PLAN, OR WILL I MAVE TO TAKE A MORTGAGE? Live is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, ¢ Canada and British Possessions, Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $t.04 a year; to Canada, $2'cents. Single current copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, 25 cents. Issues prior to 1910 ont of print. The tert-and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lave, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C. foreign trade supplied from Lirt’s London Office, Rolls House, Bream! ings, London, E. C. Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay, 386-388 St. Jans Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped end envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-eturs licited con ridutions, , Notice of change of address should reach this office ten days frior to the issue to be affected. LOCOMOBILE TOURING LIMOUSINE Buur to combine the comforts of the closed and open types of cars. The top is stationary but the side panels and windows may be lowered out of. sight. Custom design by The Locomobile Company, Bridgeport, Cons. comicbooks.com