Life, 1921-08-25 · page 30 of 34
Life — August 25, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical items typical of Life's humor section: **"Compound Interest"** and **"All Right, Joe"** are short comic verses—one playing on romantic language ("You," "I," "We," "It") becoming grammatically absurd, the other mocking a poorly-written lost-dog advertisement from an Oregon newspaper with phonetic dialect humor. **"A Yankee Answer"** satirizes evasion by public officials. A shipping board chairman (A.D. Lasker) responds to a direct policy question by telling an irrelevant joke from the vaudeville comedy team Weber & Fields, essentially dodging the issue—the joke being that Fields himself admits the question is unanswerable. **"Great Discovery"** and **"Mystics Will Happen, Too"** are one-liners: the first a pun about a professor unable to stop a motor car (no perpetual motion achieved), the second a wordplay on Tagore's complaint about the West losing touch with nature ("accidents will happen"). The page is primarily **advertising** (Cunard steamship lines, The Homestead resort), with brief humor fillers typical of period magazines.
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Compound Interest You were You, and I was I. We met, we clicked, and We were Us. And I was You, and You were me, Our own, for all eternity. Now It has come, and You are It, And I am It, and happy hours Go laughing down the happy years While We are Us, and It is Ours! —Coralie Stanley, in The Triad (Sydney). All Right, Joe From the “Want” columns of an Ore- gon paper: STOLED OR RUND AVAY—Been loose him bout two tree veeks now, hees almost black and white dog him tail cut off pritty close to my body. If somebotty find her, keep it, i belong to him. Jor BorepEam —San Francisco Chronicle. Lire. is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U.. Patent, Office. $5.00 a_year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Single current copies, 15 cents, Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, 25 cents. Issues prior to 1910 out of print. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Bri apply, to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. A Yankee Answer Men much in the public eye tend to develop a line of stock stories which may be used for evading leading questions When a shipping reporter recently asked Chairman A. D. Lasker of the Shipping Board whether or not he would support certain proposed amendments to the La Follette Act, Mr. Lasker replied: “That reminds me of Weber & Fields’ act in which Fields starts a bank and in- vites Weber to deposit his money. Weber asks, ‘But suppose I want it back and the bank hasn’t got it?’ Fields scratches his head and then demands: ‘Now, how the —— did you ever think of such a ques. tion?’”"—Wall Street Journal. Great Discovery First Proressor (in high-powered motor car): We've got it at last! Seconp Proressor: G-got w-what? First Proressor: Perpetual motion— I can’t stop. —Queenslander (Brisbane). _veweé Uncle {meeting with a very cool reception): I say, young lady, you evidently don’t love me as you used to. The Young Lady: To tell you the truth, the Prince of Wales has absolutely spoiled me for other men. —London Opinion. Mystics Will Happen, Too In a lecture at Vienna Sir Rabindra- nath Tagore complained that the Occi- dent had lost touch with Nature. Occi- dents will happen in the best-regulated worlds.—Punch. “supplied from ndon, E. C. Ca t, Montreal, London Office, Rolls House an distributor, J. R. Tangua Breams Buildings, 386-388 St. James § No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by siam addressed envelope. Lire docs not hold itself responsible for the non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office to the date of issue to be affected. To and From ‘the EDITERRANEA in the Comfort and Luxury of We have, pleasure in announcing the re- sumption of our special New York-Mediter- ranean Fall and Winter sailings. Calls are made at MADEIRA, GIBRAL- TAR, ALGIERS, GENOA, NAPLES, ALEXANDRIA. Ports vary according to cruise. Stop-overs and return trips via North Atlantic may be arranged for. WRITE FOR FULL INFORMATION CUNARD-ANCHOR STEAM SHIP LINES FROM NEW YORK, CARONIA OCT. 22 CARONIA DEC. 7 Due back New York Nov. 30 Due back New York: Jan. 16 CAMERONIA NOV. 19. CAMERONIA JAN. 10 Due back New York Dec. 31 Due back New York Feb. 26 in this mild,braci \nd the famous re HOMESTEAD Hot Springs Virginia comicbooks.com