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This page from *Life* magazine (circa 1923) is primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: - Travel and banking ads (ABA Cheques, cruises, commercial art school) - Brief comic sketches about everyday life, including: - A "Frontier Geometry" anecdote mocking an illiterate 19th-century Nevada miner who doesn't understand that a circle contains 360 degrees - "Traffic Manners" jokes about rude motorists and stubborn cart-drivers - "Day-long Dissimilarity," a dated racial sketch about a Black couple's marital dispute, using dialect humor - Employment notices with ironic punchlines These pieces reflect 1920s *Life* magazine's style: light satire aimed at urban, educated readers through workplace mishaps, immigrant/dialect humor, and "ignorant character" tropes. The racial content particularly reflects the casual prejudices of the era that modern readers would find offensive.

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---because they have been used and found worthy the wide world ove TRAVELERS’ A-B-A American Bankers Association Cheques Ask for them at your bank or write for particulars to BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, New York City CLARK’S CRUISES by C.P.R. STEAMERS Clark’s 3rd Cruise, January 23, 1923 ROUND THE WORLD Superb SS “EMPRESS of FRANCE” 18481 Gross Tons, Specially Chartered 4 MONTHS CRUISE, $1000 and up Including Hotels, Fees, Drives, Guides, etc. aGiark’s. 19th Cruise, February 3 me MEDITERRANEAN Sumptuous SS “EMPRESS of SCOTLAND” Gross Tons, Specially Chartered 65 DAYS CRUISE, $600 and up i Drives, Guides, etc. stine, Spain, Italy, Greece, et P 3 allowed on both c Europe and Passion Play Parties, $400 up Frank C. Clark, Buil WE TEACH COMMERCIAL RT Properly Trained Artists Earn $100 a week and up. Meyer Both College—a Department of the Meyer Both Company—offers you a different and practical training. If you like to draw, develop your talent. Study this practical course—taught by the largest and most widely known Commercial ‘Art Organization in the field with 20 years’ suc- cess—which each year produces and sells to ad- vertisers in the United States and Canada over ten thousand commercial drawings. Who else could give you so wide an experience? Commercial Art is a business necessity—the ‘demand s is greater every, our special book! ‘Your Opportunity’’—for half the cost of mailing—4o in stamps. MEYER BOTH COLLEGE pe Bape. a CHICAGO, hte Day-long Dissimilarity A colored couple stood once again before the probation officer. “Now this,” the officer said to both, “seems to me to be a case where there is nothing very much the matter except that your tastes are different. You, Sam, are much older than your wife. It is a case of May married to December.” A slight pause, and then Eva, the wife, was heard to remark in a tired voice: “I—I really doan’ know what you means by yer saying May is married to Decem- ber. If yer goin’ to talk that way, it seems to me to be a case of Labor Day married to de Day of Rest.”—Everybody’s. Traffic Manners Again Scene—Crowded thoroughfare. Impatient Motorist: Come on, man—get out of the way! CosTERMONGER (in donkey cart): Righto, guv'nor! Where’ll I go—up the lamp-post or dahn the drain? —Passing Show (London). my Emptoyer (to contractor): Look here. I don’t want this bunch of untrained loaf- ers sitting around here doing nothing. want it done by skilled workmen. —Nashville Tennessean. From Help Wanted, Mal “All around carpenter, willing to sleep on the job."—Detroit News. Frontier Geometry In the early days of the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nev., many of the prac. tical miners came to grief on the stand in court proceedings, according to R. H Stretch, a veteran of the early mining days, who later became State mineralogist He gives one instance. The witness stood up well under cross-examination until the following dialogue took place: “Captain, you testified that there was a clay seam in the west crosscut?” “Yes, sir.” “And it dipped 60 degrees?” “Yes, sir.” “Was this from the horizontal or the vertical ?” “From the vertical.” “Captain (as if in doubt), how many degrees are there in a circle?” ° “Ninety.” ‘Did you ever see a-circle with more than 90 degrees?” “There might be if it was a very large one”—with a sigh of relief. “You may step down, captain.” —New York Evening 1’ ost. In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Deceivers Ever “All men are liars,” said the prett and burst into tears. “But, my dear,” said her_ friend. mustn't be such a cynic. There are ceptions.” “Oh, very likely,” said the pretty “but all the really nice men are li —Pearson’s Weekly (London girl, “you Focal Distance Fraprer: Are those binoculars powerful? Sartor: Miss, these glasses bring things up so close that everything less than ten miles away looks like it is behind you —Missouri Showme, very Street Hawker (to colleague): Such times! I used to sell this stuff for two- fifty as hair tonic and now they won't give me a quarter for it as shoe polish —Klods-Hans (Copenhagen). Burpee’s Annual is the Leading American Seed Catalog. It describes the Burpee Quality Seeds. If youare interested in garden- ing, Burpee’s Annual will be mailed to you free. Write for your Annual today. Just mail the coupon TEAR HERE =—=—=—— W. ATLEE BURPEE CO. Seed Growers _ Philadelphia Send me Burpee’s Annual. 36 Name...... see eesceesccceccccceceenes R. D. or St. sets Town. State... comicbooks.com