Life, 1920-10-28 · page 12 of 46
Life — October 28, 1920 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical comics and brief jokes typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **"A Recommendation"** features a drug store testimonial—apparently a satisfied customer endorsing a product to a druggist. **"Bringing It Home"** jokes about marriage: a man (Wilbur) expresses surprise that an attractive woman married someone as unattractive as her husband (Flatte), leading to a crude joke about his wife being "a ripper" (likely a Jack the Ripper reference, implying she's dangerous). **"A Real Tip"** presents two dinner scenes satirizing financial advice: the left shows someone refusing a tip, while the right shows a waiter urgently advising a diner to sell Consolidated Tire stock before it drops—mocking both tipping customs and stock market volatility. The page reflects period concerns about courtship, class, and economic uncertainty.
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A RECOMMENDATION Srecks Dri Deer Sur:— To who it may consurn. This is to certufy that we have umploid Jams R. Morton sevrl Mo. on our ball teem and found him a good man on the basis and chasen flies, and consakently he wood be the rite man to run arrands for you. Sined Cart. Artitur Jones, Bringing It Home ILBUR (indicating a couple in the background): Funny that such a stunning-looking woman should marry such dub as that. Fiatte: Well, I don't kno: things. Now, you take your wife—she’s a ripper. No accounting for those A REAL “I don't suppose you would refuse a tip.” “Ob, no, sir.” LOCAL GossIP y say Enoch Skinner’is kind to his mother, al- though he is onquestionably the meanest man that ever mixed sawdust into his chicken feed, but if the truth be known he up and left last Tuesday’ for good and all. It come about on account of his ketchin his v drink- in’ some skim milk, which, a course, pork bein’ 'way up. she hadn't ought to done. So Enoch says he couldn't stand it no longer to see her bringing ruin down upon “em, and off he went down the road. He never got further than Will Art Hinckley’s gun- nin’ shack acrost the valley, as night come on. Ol Miss Skinner, after she had done the milkin’ and chores, cryin’ and ‘takin’ on, probably, lighted a la and set it in the window. After a while she went to bed, but Enoch seen the light, and he couldn't under- stand what wuz a-goin’ on, ‘an’ he watched it an’ watched it. Come mornin’, and he could see his mother had let out the stock, $0 he knew she must have left the lamp fer him. And'that night about sundown he seen the lamp a-burnin’ away in the window, and he knew that it would burn all night and the next night and the next, consumin’ kerosene, barrel after barrel, unless he did something about it. So he went hum. Gastronomical Limitations NORTH: How do you manage to order from that mer C “an you read French? West: No, but I can read prices! TIP “If you have any Consolidated Tire stock, sell it at once It’s going to drop.” comicbooks. Eom