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This page from *Life* magazine's "Life Lines" section contains brief satirical commentary and a central woodcut illustration. The cartoon depicts silhouetted figures (appears to be travelers or migrants) on a dramatic landscape with stormy skies. The text items are short, sharp jokes on contemporary topics: evolution (Simians vs. Shimmyans), Prohibition enforcement, Greek immigration, world governance, and New York coffee quality. Several items reference recent news events—a San Francisco woman's encounter with a divorcée, Kaiser Wilhelm's political influence, and debates about transportation costs for American soldiers. The humor targets American social anxieties of the 1920s-era: immigration, labor disputes, government inefficiency, and cultural change. The illustration's context isn't entirely clear from visible text, though it appears related to one of the gossipy anecdotes below it.

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VOLUTION has divided anthropoids into Simians and shimmyans. eee Pussyfoot Johnson, we presume, still has an cye out for Prohibition in England eee “The condition in which this fa lived reminded me of the stone said Mr. Warner.—New York Trii Now will you laugh at these memory courses? eee A toupee won't keep a head from being Id inside. eee Greeks Reenforcing Their Front.—Headline. That reminds us that we have forgotten to put a new coat of paint on ours. cee If the world were inhabited entirely by aristocrats, a work- able world-democracy would be possible, eo Half the world can’t under- stand how the other half gets away with it. To be a New Yorker (says an advertisement), is to love fine coffee. Java hear such nonsense? see For transporting Americ soldiers to France in British vessels, the United States owes England £6,250,000, While we're on that subject, how much does the United States owe the American sol- diers she transported back? eee Masked Bandits Rob Poli ticians—New York Herald. A shocking breach of pre fessional courtes: eee Under a new law, no more cracked dishes are to be 4 lowed in Texas restaurants. If this reform ever spreads to Los Angeles some of our greatest movie comedians may find themselves out of employment. cee Contrary to reports, Presi- dent Masaryk, first: President ho-Slovakia, has noi resigned He prefers to continue his Czechered cer ee 8 n horn show proficiency in English—New York ming Post, Which is more than can be said of the native born ee A broken h logical t, it is said, is a physio- Excess emotion, especially joy, may rupture that organ. Does possibility, nybody care to experiment by giving us a million dollars? eee The first hardest, ten commandments are the LOCAL GOssIP UELLA TUCKER'S darter, the gal thet wears them Wh short petticuts, hes been a-goin’ with thet young squirt thet works at the Greater Rock Hill Store. come St, Valentine’s Day and he writ her a Valentine— Will you walk with me, my dove. While [ coo-coo words of to} Wall, ‘twas too bad, bet when she gut it she w het up erbout it. (To be continued in our next) He toll Bill reckons ef he'd hed a marriage . license he could even hev called her duck-footed with- out no trouble, leastwise till arter the ceremony. Special courts, it is said, may be cstab- L.shed for liquor cases. Three star" chamber it were, eo The president of the newly formed Veteran Ladies’ Golf Association is her- self aged ninety-two.—Answers, Is that her age or her handicap ee Can Lire justify its action in pr ing a cartoon in which Labor does not wear a square paper cap and Capital displays no white spats? We know all about the after-the-war let-down in standards, but isn’t this going Too F —Kansas City S What do you expect? The paper cap symbolizes work, and white spats are the emblem of wealth, Drys Gain in Hollan New York Herald, Somebody's got his caught in the dyke again, eee A San Francisco woman re- decree of di- received the cently reeciving voree, likewise custody of the Now, who's going to put the cat out? Old Kaiser Wilhelm the only man who ever to impress his whims ideas on the people whole, and he is a dead o —President Bese Central RR. of N Maybe you haven't heard of the Seventh Day Alliance, or the Anti-Tobacco League. eee As much as £5,000 has been paid in London and. easily phone number. for a simple remembered tele- "s the matter with Pel- It manism? “Arnstein on trial Says a newspaper headline. Is all this going to be an event one She said he called her pigeon-toed, and of course we could see thet she wan't her over and over thet thet wuz poetic license, but twan't no use. Bill Pepperill sez he wuz a-workin’ with the wrong kind of license can look forward to with cer- tainty, like Christmas, or will its recurrence be uncertain— like Vesuvius’ eruption? * No, Hyacinth, ‘kie Arn- stein isn’t the chap who evolved the theory of Relativity. comicbooks.com