Life, 1920-11-18 · page 11 of 44
Life — November 18, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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The image shows two dogs lounging on a doormat in a domestic setting. The caption presents a humorous dialogue: **The Airedale** (left dog) complains: "What are you chasing me for? Keep quiet! Be calm! Not so obstreperous, please!" **The Bull Pup** (right dog) responds: "Sorry, old sport, but my mistress says it's clean-up week." This is a gentle domestic humor piece playing on the contrast between the Airedale's dignified demands for peace and the Bull Pup's explanation that his boisterous behavior stems from household cleaning duties. The joke relies on anthropomorphizing the dogs, giving them human concerns about cleanliness and household management—common subjects in early 20th-century satirical magazines aimed at middle-class readers.
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a The Airedale: WHAT ARE YOU CHASING ME FOR? KEEP QUIET! BE CALM! NoT s OBSTREPEROUS, PLEASE! The Bull Pup Our Own Baedeker Impressions of a Transcontinentalist HILADELPHIA—Any other city on a Sunday; and bluer stockings ; Boston. New York—The glad hand and the dollar bill; Nero leading Art Hickman’s jazz-bandits; an actor and a vaudeville per- former dodging a limousine in Wall Street; Beau Brum- mell flirting with a Childs’ waitress opposite the Plaza Burrato—Terminals; the business of living; small-town in- dustry on a large scale; Bertha M. Clay on a Lake excur- sion boat; popcorn and perspiration. Cutcaco—France in America, with department-store scene’ masses and millionaires; Michigan Boulevard in the wind; sugar-coated crime; Beauty and the Beef. Omana—The droning of bees in the afternoon sun; Friends and Feller Citizens; the Fourth of July hanging over; sleeping America and spiritless soda-water. Dexver—Souvenir-hawkers selling sun-goggles in front of the Gold Nugget Hotel; “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” with a Billy Sunday obbligato; Thirty-Cent Dinner To-day Only through fly-specked windows; cheap shirts concealing kind hearts; the Great West as is. bluebloods Puritanism minus; Fifth Avenue, SORRY, OLD SPORT, BUT MY MISTRESS SAYS IT’S CLEAN-UP WEEK Cotoravo Srrincs—The postcard hunter's idea of heaven; scenic splendor and civic stupidity ; a fly in molasses; moun- tain fastgesses and slowness. Satt Lake Crty—The Holy Mormon Empire; Bluebeard sing- ing “She Is My Daisy” Marche Funébre; commercialized religion Ocven (Utah)—Hell’s Gulch reforme a William S. Hart picture without William S. Hart; the birthplace of every great man San Francisco—Vantine’s at ten cents a throw; strects that should be thronged; roller-coaster hills; West OAKLAND accompanied by the broad, quiet open-face stres semi-Metropolitanism of \ city built out of palms; presidential candidate; salesless-looking stores; 3 a runaway truck; George M. Cohan running for mayor of Ashtabula. Berkevey (Cal.)—What a college town should be; cottages and highbrows; Freud and Isadora Duncan dancing a gavotte on sensitized rubber; perpetual regularity Los Ancetes—A barn-storming town in Paradise; gasoline on marble in the moonlight; Art entering a beauty parlor; “It Pays to Advertise” played by an all-star cast in the heart of the Redwoods; the Old Hokum Bucket. comicbooks.com