Life, 1920-11-18 · page 32 of 44
Life — November 18, 1920 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine (appears to be early 20th century) contains several satirical pieces: **"If at First" poem**: A romantic comedy about a rejected suitor whose love poems are rejected by multiple women, then—after marrying Nancy—he sells the same poem to *Life* magazine for $11.75. The joke satirizes both persistent romantic failure and the magazine's willingness to publish recycled content. **"The Drunk" cartoon**: Shows a drunk man boasting to a constable about making "five thousand in half an hour" celebrating. The constable's friend asks who the man is; the reply is he's "the fellow that lost" the money. It's a standard joke mocking drunken delusion and poor judgment. **Other brief items** include humorous observations on hospital baby identification, Swedish political anxiety, and opera fashion pretension. The page is primarily **advertising** (Girard cigars, Hampshire Stationery, drug store descriptions), with humor pieces filling gaps. The satire targets common human foibles rather than specific political figures.
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Aut NuLLus If at First— I wrote a most passionate ode to Flo, And she turned me down. I typed it again and sent it to Jo, And she turned me down. I sent it to Katherine, Norma and Bess, To Mary, to Evelyn, Helen and Tes: But the more I loved them, they lovec less, And they turned me down, But two years later, after I was happily married to Nancy, I sold a copy of the bloomin’ thing to Lire for eleven dollars and seventy-five cents, —Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, Intimations of Mortality Now that hospitals are to identify babies by their footprints, the Columbia-Missourian further explains that a baby playing with his toes really is trying to find out who he is, anyway. —Missouri EXCUSE? otes, in Kansas City Times. re is published every to Canada, 80 cents. from date of publication, 25 cents. Issues prior to 1910 out of print, The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Re} opply to Live, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lan London, A good way to down | your worries— If you have any. Forget them awhile and they'll forget you. When troubled, light up a Girard. Let its mellow fragrance help you to think your way through hard problems smoothly,cheerfully and with a keen, clear, active brain. Talk about memory systems! A good forgettery system has them all beaten a mile. And this wonderful Girard carries the first and finest lesson, Antonio Roig & Langsdorf Philadelphia Established 49 years Never gets on your nerves The Drunk: RER GOOD EXCUSE}; The Constable: The Same Drunk: int Rights in Great Britain E. C., England, "S ORIGHT, CONSTABLE, GOR- MADE FIVE THOUSAND IN MALF AN HOUR TO-DAY, JUST CELEBRATIN WHAT'S YOUR FRIEND'S OH, He's THE FELLOW quart Lost.—Bulletin (Sydney, Australia). Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; gle current copies, 15 cents. Back numbers, after three months Ne Unrest in Sweden “Gentlemen,” said the speaker, “] egf sit still without saying a word, and y rise. I will speak what lies close to heart. Everybody debates the future of country. Buildings are erected for pos Everything that is done, built, planted simply for the benefit of posterity. what in Heaven’s name has posterity 4 for us?"—Kasper (Stockholm) The Drug Store A complete picture of that f. indispensable institution, the drug store, is this from Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt, Brace Dyer’s Drug Store, a corner lar and unreal blocks of ar the store, a greasy marble soda-f¢ clectric lamp of red and green yolee mosaic shade. Pawed-over heaps of t brushes and combs and packages of shaving Shelves of soap-cartons, teething-rings, seeds and patent medicines in yellow’ pati —nostrums for consumption, diseases "—notorious mixtures alcohol, At the Opera “But that woman in the have no clothes on at all! “Ah, yes; she’s the best-dressed in Paris."—Le Journal Amusant (Perit The foreign trade supplied from Live's London Office, Rolls He ings, London, E. C. Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay, 386-388 Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accomp envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible f licited contributions, Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the, issue to be affected. OR men—as well as for women —Old Hampshire Stationery is made in sizes and styles that are not merely correct, but from which may be chosen writing paper ex- pressive of the most exacting individuality. A box of sample sheets and en- velopes will be sent upon request. Fine StaTioneny DEPARTMENT G HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY Mokers of Ord HAMPSHIRE Bonn, South Hadley Falls, Mast comicbooks.comuy