Life, 1922-04-13 · page 3 of 34
Life — April 13, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **mostly advertising** alongside light humor content. The left side features "Mother Goose (Bottled in Bond)" — nursery rhyme verses, likely satirizing prohibition-era rhetoric about "bottled" goods. Below is a brief joke titled "Beating Her to It" about a submissive husband claiming he's "a shirt of a wife-beater" before his wife can say so — domestic humor typical of the 1920s. The main content is a full-page ad for **The Continental and Commercial Banks of Chicago**, using an illustrated tree metaphor: "roots of trade" need banking service to grow. The marketing pitch emphasizes financial services for businesses nationwide. The cartoon labeled "The Colonel Entertains" (bottom left) shows a social scene where guests interrupt the host's discourse—light satirical commentary on social interruptions, reprinted from *Punch* (London).
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Mother Goose (Bottled in Bond) 1SSY CAT, Pussy Cat, where have P you been? I've been to the kitchen to mix up some Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, what did you there? I spilled some, and look what it did to the chair! * * * Sing a song of sixpence, ocket full of rye. our-and-twenty iron men sought it on the sly. \Vhen the rye was opened lhe birds began to sing— The label on the bottle \Vas a very pretty thing. x oe Hey-diddle-di.'dle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumps over the moon. What shall I see at ten to-night If | see such things at noon? * * * Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; What cared he for a touch of flu—? \ schooner was in from Maine! * * * Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, © Headwaiter Man, Bring me a cupful as fast as you can; Color it, label it, sell it for tea— Mister Volstead’s just lovely to you and to me. P. M. Hollister. Beating Her to It Tue submissive little husband was stealthily picking his own pockets be- fore g to bed. “A brute of a wife- beater, that’s what I am,” he chuckled THE COLONEL ENTERTAINS Belated guests interrupt their host's discourse om the subject of unpunc- tuality. —Reproduced from Punch (London) by arrangement with the proprietors. ROOTS S TRADE are buried in the economic soil of the nation. To grow in a healthy and normal manner they should be nourished by energetic and constructive banking service. To individuals, firms and com- mercial concerns in all parts of the country The Continental and Commercial Banks extend bank- ing service of a character designed to give life to the roots of trade. The CONTINENTAL and COMMERCIAL BANKS CHICAGO Complete Banking Service More than $55,000,000 Invested Capital comicbooks.com