Life, 1920-05-20 · page 16 of 48
Life — May 20, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** The caption "Mr. MacProphets" quotes someone saying fillers "paint 'em all right" but "by jinks it takes us t'buy 'em!" This appears to satirize post-WWI inflation and consumer frustration. A man with a horse (possibly representing a working-class or rural figure) confronts what seems to be a salesman or authority figure. The joke targets the gap between product quality and affordability—manufacturers can make goods acceptably, but prices have become unreasonably high for ordinary people. **"1920 Jabberwocky":** A humorous poem mocking political candidates (Smith and Palmer mentioned) using nonsense verse in the style of Lewis Carroll. **"Financial" section:** A brief joke about marriage costs, suggesting economic anxieties about domestic life.
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Mr, MacProphets us T’ Buy ‘em! 1920 Jabberwocky "TWAS votish and the candidates Did smith and palmer in the air; All bryaned were their addled pates, Their brows hitchcocked with care. Oh, votish day! Come quickly, pray! He chortled in his joy. ‘Twas votish and the candidates Did smith and palmer in the air; All bryaned were their addied pates, Their brows hitchcocked with care May Stanley “Beware the johnsonites, my son! Fight hoover off with tooth and talon! Beware the leonard wood, and shun The frabjous henry allen!” He took his ready Long time the sena Then rested he ‘neath nin hand fe foes he so the white h tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in rulish thought he stood, The hoover boom with eyes of flame Came clarking through the macadoo, And pershinged as it came! One! Two! One! and through The ready pen went snicker-snack ; He slew it then and with his pen Two! And through He went galumping back. “ And hast thou slain the hoover boom? And canst thou boy?” slay the hitchcock Mother 1 just co OH, SURE, YOU FELLERS KIN PAINT 'EM ALL RIGHT; BUT BY JINKS! IT TAKES Financial “THEY were bishop.” “Did that make any difference?” “Only about one hundred dollars.” W 4 all you had to do to get ir married by an remember the good old days was to have your appendix out THAT NEW YOUNG MAN OP FRANCES’ IS A VERY COOD BILLIARD PLAYER bb A RUN OF FIFTY comicbooks.com