Life, 1920-04-15 · page 14 of 44
Life — April 15, 1920 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon**: Depicts several men in suits and bowler hats in what appears to be a professional or government office setting. The caption reads: "An Amateur: 'Every man is too tender-hearted to succeed in Wall Street.' 'Yes, he won't even bet the stock market when it's down.'" This satirizes an inexperienced person's naïve views about Wall Street ruthlessness, mocking the idea that sentiment has any place in financial markets. **"Brittle as a Pipe-Stem" Section**: Discusses an advertisement about pipe-stems, noting that old clay pipe-stems were proverbially brittle. The accompanying illustration shows a broken automobile, humorously comparing automotive fragility to fragile pipe-stems with the caption "In the spring a young man's fancy." The page mocks both naive financial attitudes and automobile reliability through gentle satire.
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AN AMATEUR “PRELIY MAN 55 TOU TENDER-HEARTED To SUC8ELU IN WALL STREET.” “YES, ME WON'T OUVEN HIT THER STOCK MARKET WHTEN IT's bows.” of the Street Cleaning Department will le wholly clini churchwarden clay pipes. Brier stems are not brittle, but nated if you will but sce to it that every reont is equipped clay pipes are no longer common to the artist a pipe with a proper resting-place for your husband's ashes—not was a brier, and a pipe-stem was a combination of speaking irreverently, of course. wood and hard rubber Coming now to the crux of this didactic discourse, we expeet, vainly perhaps, to see the day when smokers shall be provided, when urs, With adequate receptacles for their ashes—something with capacity—" so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door,” but anything that will accommodate the clinkers of an evening's smoke When ash trays. shall surround us wherever we sit, then shall we be con- tent Harold Ernest Ising Brittle as a Pipe-Stem TT! unintended jokes are the fun- mest On the billboards in January was an advertisement of a substance of which the advertiser said: “It can be brittle as a pipe-stem.” And there was a picture of a man breaking the stem of a short brierwood pipe. But of course the pipe-stem that was proverbially brittle was clay, and espe- cially the long, slim stems of the old “In the spring a young man's fancy” comicbooks.com