Life, 1921-05-19 · page 31 of 36
Life — May 19, 1921 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines newspaper humor columns with a vintage tire advertisement. **The Newspaper Paragraphs** are short, satirical observations from various publications commenting on contemporary issues: Prohibition (doctors prescribing whisky while lawyers forbid it), Emma Goldman's Russian exile, young men's lack of ambition, physicians' political influence, tax evasion, bohemian artists, and a moving boulder in Massachusetts. **The Main Cartoon** (bottom left) shows a physician, Renaissance duke, and modern man with a child—a visual joke about incongruous mixing of time periods and social classes. The caption reveals the cartoonist struggled to make the composition work, turning the confusion itself into the joke. **The Advertisement** (right page) is a Fisk Tires ad featuring a cherub/putto figure straining under an enormous tire, with the tagline "Time to Re-tire?" This plays on the double meaning of "retire" (rest/replace). The ad emphasizes durability under "roughest road conditions." All content reflects early 20th-century American consumer culture and humor sensibilities.
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Our Newspaper Paragraphists (Some of the things they are saying) It is pretty tough, when your doctor ad- vises you to buy a case of whisky, to have lawyer advise you not to, —New York World. eee Advices from Russia indicate that Emma man was terribly homesick for rica until her friend Trotzky re- led her that she wasn't. —Boston Transcript. see : The imagination of the average Bright pung Man of the day rises no higher than the impulse to go and sell something to somehbody.—New York Sun, eee \pparently there are physicians who ‘t care who makes a nation’s laws if they can write its prescriptions. —Baltimore Sun. eee There is this difference between taxes I taxis. You can sometimes dodge the r if you are quick on your feet. —Detroit Free Press. eee “Bohemia?” said a magazine writer. “The place a writer or an artist leaves in his first automobile, and without a tear or a sigh of regret.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. eee That historic boulder up in Massachu- setts has been moved so frequently. re- cently that it is beginning to resemble a flock of Plymouth Rocks. —Richmond Times-Dispatch. chief trouble with this picture is that s really no joke that goes very well It was foolish, in the first place, to man in modern clothes in the same ‘le with a Renaissance duke and an in- However, what's done is done, ani nly way out is to find something that | go fairly well under it. This might et by Physician: WMAT 18 THE INSTRUMENT YOU ARE PLAYING? Doke> Wett, SENATOR, ZITHER A MANDOLIN OR A BANJO, 1 DON’T KNOW WHICH, Of course, that isn’t very good. And it really leaves out altogether the infanta, and the fact that the duke has on overshoes. The whole thing is frightfully confused, we are afraid. *, Benchley, in Harvard Lampoon. Let your next tire be Tred Mart Ree U8 Pat OF, Time to Re-tire? (Buy Fisk) ASY-RIDING excess mileage E under the test of the roughest road conditions has made the fame of Fisk Tires. Users expect more from a Fisk — they are not disappointed. Sold only by dealers comicbooks.com