Life, 1920-03-25 · page 34 of 40
Life — March 25, 1920 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains several short humorous pieces mocking contemporary social situations. **"The Colonel's Lady's Maid"** satirizes class pretension: a young officer meets a woman at Coney Island (a working-class resort) who dresses well and gives him a fashionable New York address. He takes her to the Ritz, but his friend reveals she's actually a servant—the officer unwittingly dated his friend's maid. The joke ridicules both the woman's attempt to pass as upper-class and the officer's gullibility. **"Humors of the Elevator"** humorously imagines an elevator operator going mad, deliberately stopping and starting erratically while passengers peer anxiously through doors—satirizing the absurdity of modern urban life and mechanical service. The remaining vignettes mock courtship conventions and marital expectations through brief, cynical quips—typical of *Life*'s satirical approach to contemporary American social habits.
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FOOLISH P LS The Colonel's Ladv’s Maid A young flying officer met a pretty girl —er—informally at Coney Island one afternoon. She was dressed awfully swell, and when they separated she gave him a very fashionable New York ad- dress; so the next time he was in town he wired her to meet him at the Ritz for dinner. She turned up, looking smarter than ever, and after dinner they did a theatre. A brother officer sat in a box, and the young airman waved to him, but got a rather quizzical response. “What ails Topper?” he thought, and at the end of the act his question was answered. “Hello, there!" Topper said, coming up to him in the lobby. “I don't mind your taking out my wife's maid, old man, but I wish to goodness you'd ask her to wear her own frocks.” —Los Angeles Times. In a Pinch, use AL'LEN’S FOOT-EASE “They Walk Upright and Alive’’ In this way a reviewer in the London “Sketch” refers to the characters in Ernest Oldmeadow’s “Coggin,” a novel just published in this country. “*Coggin’ is Continu- ing, he says of the book: a study of a country boy done with a | large gesture. Coggin the boy is the actor who focuses the whole big, | But of course he is very much more than an breathless business for you. actor. He is a youth who fights his way up from the unlettered ignorance of the state in which it had pleased the God of the Victorians to call He is a reality. him, to learning and to music. . . . And the other people in the book—they all breathe and walk upright alive.” “Coggin” is published in this country by The Century Co., 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City, and is sold at all book- stores for $1.75. Humors of the Elevator There are irresistible humors in ele- vators. We cannot. imagine anything more intensely amusing than to be an elevator man seized with a-sudden mad- ness. Think of flashing up and down the shaft, with the buzzer sounding wildly, haggard and infuriated faces gazing through the door at every landing, while we merrily tooled up and down without ever stopping. People are so incredibly comic when they peer hotly through the pane at an elevator that doesn’t stop, + «+ wedon't see how any high-spirited elevator chauffeur ever resists this temp- tation—New York Evening Post, It will be known in history as the van- ishing cabinet.—Boston Transcript Jonah: vine! THIS 18 THE PIRST TIME I CAN REMEMBER WHEN 1'VE BEEN FREE FROM WORRY ABOUT AN APARTMENT EGYPTIAN Nhe Utmost in Qrarettes Plain End or @ork Tp People of culture anj refinement invariabh} PREFER “Deities to any other cigarette 308 Msgrgysos Makers of the Highest Grade Torkish perp bady, soabmy ay or Looking Forward They had just become engaged. “T shall love.” she cooed, “to share all your griefs and troubles.” “But, darling,” he purred, “I have none.” “No,” she agreed; “ but I mean when we are married.”"—Dallas News. Uncre Josian is too generous do an hour's work for you and r take pay for it even when he is needing money so badly that he will borrow five dollars from you an hour later. —Kansas City Star. quality if you buy Hays Gloves This HAYS Bato is used exclusively on First Quality leather. Get HAY Gloves for Men and Women at all the Better Shops your own dealer. FoR OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST= comicbooks.com men