Life, 1921-04-21 · page 30 of 36
Life — April 21, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising mixed with light humor pieces**, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Main Advertisement**: The Continental and Commercial Banks of Chicago emphasizes the city's role as America's commercial hub, supplying goods and services globally—a promotional piece celebrating American industrial power and banking infrastructure. **Cigarette Ad**: Egyptian Deities cigarettes use pseudo-intellectual appeals to "people of culture and refinement," a common advertising strategy of the era. **Humor Sections**: Several brief jokes and anecdotes appear: - "Dangers of Intellect" satirizes overprotective parenting (a worried mother fears education will overstimulate her son) - "How the Parson Figured It" features African American dialect humor, where a preacher calculates hell's distance based on age - Other short comic pieces on lying, academia, and social observations The page reflects period attitudes: boosterism for American commerce, casual ethnic stereotyping in humor, and genteel satirical commentary on modern manners and education.
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What Chicago Means to the World Chicago is the’storehouse of _ transported to the four corners the nation. It supplies the of the earth. The Continental world with much of its food, and Commercial Banks are clothing, and machinery. Its qualified in resources, facili- services are universal, its ties, and experience to help wealth and commodities are the city serve the world. The CONTINENTAL and COMMERCIAL BANKS CHICAGO Over $55,000,000 Invested Capital EGYPTIAN f il) DEITIES f us ‘The Utmost in Cigarettes” E Plain End or Cork Jip People of culture and refinement invariably PREFER J Deities to any other cigarette OF VUUUUUUUUUTUUUUUUUUANUUUUUDUU ANNA NTT a CRUG GRR GRU ANANAANAAAANAAAAANNINANAAAAANAAA mnnannnannnannannnnnanannnannnnnaninnnanars Dangers of Intellect ought to be held back a good deal or he A worried mother living in the East Side will run to intelleck entirely, and I do not of New York wrote to her boy’s teacher as desire it. So please hold him back so as to follows: keep his intelleck from getting bigger than “ Please do not push Tommy too hard, for his body and injuring him for life.” so much of his brains is intelleck that he —Boston Transcript. so How the Parson Figured It After a sermon by an old colored preach er, one of the brethren said to him: “ Beer Jenkins, how fur off, you reckon, hell is 2” “ How old is you, Brer Thomas ?” as’ the preacher. “Well, suh, ef I don’t miss my kalker! tions I is sixty-fo’.” “ Well,” said the preacher, “ w'en you wuz born inter dis worl’, hell wuz jes’ sixty-fo’ years off, an’ all I got ter say is, ef ain't in sight er it now, it ain't yo’ fault —Atlanta Constitutios Viva Voce Bioxe: Who was that fellow you talked 1680 lotigion the corner? Soak: He was my old barkeeper. Bioxe: What did he say ? Soak: He “No. —Carnegie Tech. Puppet. In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE lectus Albertus Stone, Valensins, A magnus homo fuit; His socti, unanimi, Dixerunt that he knew it. Albertus flunked Historiam; Expulsus est to domo. Et nune he est ad Rosenbaum, A sad sed wiser homo, —Yale Record. Modem Lying A Sunday school teacher asked a small girl the other day why Ananias was so severely punished. The little one thought a minute, then answered: “ Please, teache they weren't a0 used to lying in those days.” —London Morning Post. To Whom It May Concem A man is known by the companies he pro- motes.—Jack Canuck (Toronto). meets vou at BERMUDA Ask usto make your steamship andhotelreservations. Nocharges made for this service. We repre- sent the Furness-Bermuda Steam- ship Company and all the hotels at Bermuda. Write or Telephone. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELDEPT. 65 Broadway Cortes (ARS “MADE AT KEY WEST— comicbooks.com