Life, 1921-11-03 · page 28 of 34
Life — November 3, 1921 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes **advertisements with humor columns** typical of Life magazine's format. The **main advertisement** (top-left) promotes three Santa Fe Railway trains—the California Limited, the Missionary, and the Scout—emphasizing comfort, dining-car service by Fred Harvey, and scenic destinations like the Grand Canyon and Indian pueblos. This targets affluent leisure travelers of the era. The **right column, "Our Foolish Contemporaries,"** collects brief satirical anecdotes mocking social types: - A Jewish passenger repeatedly asking for "a leedle farther" on a tram, testing the conductor's patience - Flowery, pretentious advertising copy about a clothing lapel - A woman inspecting a puppy, seeking a "well-bred" dog - A wife's deadpan comment about her husband's 20-year strangulation attempts These jokes rely on **ethnic stereotypes** (Yiddish dialect), **mockery of advertising's overwrought language**, class anxiety about breeding/status, and dark marital humor—all reflecting early 20th-century satirical sensibilities that modern readers would find offensive or simply obscure. The **Pears Soap advertisement** at bottom-right is straightforward product promotion.
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THE CALIFORNIA LIMITED station hotels. Many travelers prefer isallthat the nameimplies. Very _ to get off the train for their meals. best for best travelers. Finer Never have you eaten a better meal for than ever this season. You will the money than on the Santa Fe. like the Fred Harvey dining-car service, and the through Pullman via Grand Canyon. Never have you seen anything com- parable to Grand Canyon National Park—or more interesting than the The Missionary also has Pullman for Petrified Forest and Indian pueblos. the Canyon. The Navajo, Scout and Ask for illustrated folders, “To Missionary carry tourist as well as California the Santa Fe Way”, ‘Cali- standard sleepers. They provide Fred fornia Picture Book”, and ‘Grand Harvey dining-car service at artistic Canyon Outings.” W. J. BLACK, Pass. Traffic Manager, A. T. & S. F. Ry. System, 1107 Railway Exchange, Chicago The Philosopher utters The Magic Phrase, ** SUBSCRIBE TO LIFE” For the Actor—All the World’s a Stage. LIFE is what we make it. Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Lire for the next ten weeks to Open only to new subscribers; no subscrip- , “Open Sesame” tions renewed at this rate. tsar ty ty is out of date. [7 7FR, 598 Madison Ave., New York (£) Foreign $6.60 OUR F CONTEM “Only a Leedle Farther!” He was obviously of the chosen race, and he boarded a tramcar with a sackful of something which he planked down on the. conductor’s platform. ‘He took a two- penny ticket, and at the termination of his journey he was informed of the fact “Oh, Mr. Conductor,” he pleaded, “let me go a leedle farther. I am only a poor man!” The good-natured conductor consented, and at the end of the next stage he was met with the same request. Again he con- sented; but when, for a third time, the | passenger pleaded, he jibbed. “Here.” he said, “I’ve had enough of this! Off you go, you and your luggage!” The sack was thrown off, and an ear- splitting yell rent the air. “Oy, oy! My poor partner!” wailed the unsuccessful pleader. —Answers (London), The Ecstatic Copy-Writer New York clothing store ad—“Just see how leisurely that lapel looks out upon the world, like a flower opening to the sun- light. Fragile, delicate as a coiled spri resilient, a lapel with life in it, an by the hands that made it.” —Boston Transcript. An Air of Breeding Lapy (inspecting puppy): Is he well | bred? Peppter: Say, lady, if any o’ your neigh- bors has got a dog ye'd like to see snubbed this dog will do the job for yous —Wayside Tales “My husband has been trying to strangle me_ for twenty yea: said a woman at Willesden Police Court. It is this dogged perseverance that has made us what we are.—Punch. Good morning! Have you used SOAP Matchless for the Complexion — I muc TI the : othe but first thre one Lin men cour i unti Dec mad in t of 0 the prev mad Ac the be | each use of 1 t pag! goo subi Life L Life they add comicbooks.com