Life, 1921-12-15 · page 30 of 34
Life — December 15, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and humor columns**, not political cartoons. The main advertisements are for Holeproof Hosiery (socks/stockings) and Egyptian Deities cigarettes—typical early 20th-century luxury goods marketed as signs of taste and refinement. The right column contains **brief humorous anecdotes** clipped from various newspapers: - A Texan's malapropistic account of "liberators" (Lincoln, Edison, etc.) freeing people - A boy who memorizes "Treasure Island" and says "give us our daily bread—yo, ho, and a bottle of rum!" at prayers - A homely girl rejected by a clerk who assumes she's buying a beauty book as a gift - A contrast between modern and "old-time" subway etiquette These are gentle, **mainstream humor pieces** poking fun at dialect speakers, children, vanity, and changing manners—typical Life magazine filler content from the 1910s-20s era. No specific political figures or events are referenced.
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Holepre@t [pesierg” Give Him a Box of Holeproof Hosiery is one gift that every boy and man welcomes espe- cially when it is Holeproof, famous for its superior quality, smart style, and unmatched durability. To give Holeproof is to show good judgment—for here is a gift that is as desirable as it is useful. Stores everywhere are offering Silk, Silk Faced, Silk and Wool, and Lisle Hole proof Hosiery for men, packed in attractive Christmas boxes HOLEPROOF HOSIERY COMPANY, Milwaukee, Wisconsir Holeproof Hosiery Company of Canada, Limited, London, Ontario H.H. Co, = “The Utmost in Gigarettes” Plain End or Cork Tip People of culture and refinement invariably PREFER ‘Deities to any other cigarette No better cigarette ade _aSEELRLE The Newest Freedom Texans are just naturally partisans. A man from that state called at the Journal office the other day. In reply to a ques- tion, he said: “Yes, the caounty where Ah live went Republican at ‘lection, | so’y now it went that way. Hodd so pop’la’ as he was. Ah hud a fell emawks "bout that to-day rig! He said: ‘Some great liberato’s have lived in this count: Linco freed the slaves; Henry d fre freed the tired piano playah; Hodding freed the wo'king man from hahd labaw. Ain't no work now but fo’ va’y few.’” —Oil and Gas Jourial A Pernicious Influence Frederick had discovered = Tri Island the other day and devoured one blissful feast, lasting from brea till bedtime, when he was forcibly loose from the book. He was obviously in a trance as he un dressed, but still his demure mamma was not exactly prepared for the variation which he sprung when he came to say his prayers: “Give us this day our daily bread—yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!” —London Opini Poor Father The London Times digs up a bunch of “humor evasive” in answers to question- i s, for instance: A person whose had been hanged by the neck wntil answered the question: ur father dead? If so, how did father was taking the principal a public function, when the plat- form gave wa) —Richmond Times-Dispatch. No Sale “IT want,” said_the very plain girl, “a hook itled ‘Cultivate Your Natural Beauty “Here it is,” said the clerk, who wanted to be sociable. “Are you getting it for a friend?” And the very plain girl put her purse back into her bag and went right out —Philadc!bhia Retail Ledge On Sufferance Firm Propucer (seeking _ location): You say your mistress is av I suppose she wouldn't object to my taking a tew e in her. grounds? Trusty Orp Retarver: I don’t sup- pose so, but you mustn't come ‘round 4 2 wards bothering her to buy the photo- graphs !—Passing Show (London). Old-Time Chivalry ANT Lapy: Sir, when I was your age, a young man would not let a woman stand up in the subway. “Younc Man: When you were my age, madam, people still went about in coaches.—Le Journal Amusant (Paris). Britannia, briefly, will golden-rule the waves—New York Tribunc. durins himse hecau: by th it is long a ture h life and, i Ren ston some crimir comicbooks.com