Life, 1921-10-20 · page 13 of 34
Life — October 20, 1921 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical items: 1. **"In Gay Paree"**: A cartoon mocking American tourists in Paris. A young female tourist sits helplessly in a horse-drawn carriage, frustrated because she can't remember the French word for "stop" and has a language professor appointment at four. 2. **"Hope for Walkers"**: A brief article about Mr. John Ripley, a New York State education commissioner, who walked across Europe. It jokes that American civilization will eventually adopt European-style walking when automobiles become impractical. 3. **"The Absent Portions"** and **"Business"**: Two separate joke vignettes about town-planning and cab fares, likely humorous observations about contemporary life. The satire targets American tourist incompetence abroad and automobile culture.
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Efoctober 20 Hope for Walkers R. JOHN FINLEY, lately Com- missioner of Education in New York State, likes to walk and has come back from Europe lamenting that this country is so far behind that continent in its appreciation of walking. Oh, well, what wonder? In Europe e short and you can only walk ays without a passport. Besides it, in a country like this, where there is an automobile for every twelve people ind trolley cars for the rest, walking on the roads is a dangerous habit. When our civilizati reaches the point at which the civilization of Europe is now, there will be plenty of people walking here and Dr. Finley will have company. The Absent Portions “How do you like my daughter’s new sown, Mr. Gay?” “It’s very nice as far as it doesn’t go.” In Gay Paree Young Lady Tourist (being driven helplessly about Paris, in desperation): Heaven help me! If I only could think of the word for “stop!” And I have an appointment with my Professor of Languages at four this afternoon. “Hop in, lady! Business Take yer anywhere in the city for a quarter.” comicbooks.com