Life, 1922-05-11 · page 30 of 38
Life — May 11, 1922 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with inserted humor pieces** rather than political satire. The main cartoon shows a **caricatured golfer** with exaggerated features preparing to swing, labeled "FORE! and 30," advertising the "Sensational British Ball, R-34" golf equipment. The joke appears to reference both the golf term "fore" (warning) and some aspect of the R-34, likely the **British airship R-34** that made headlines for transatlantic flight achievements around this era. The page contains several short comic anecdotes in the section "Our Foolish Contemporaries," including: - A story about a foreman and young female factory worker with "big eyes," playing on ethnic/class dynamics of early 20th-century labor - Academic humor about a student misunderstanding reading assignments - A joke about foreign visitors and American automobiles (suggesting cars are as dangerous as "Indians") These reflect period attitudes toward immigrant workers, class differences, and emerging automobile culture, presented as light comedy rather than serious critique.
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“FORE!” and 30 ball supremacy R-34 Sole Distributors Manufacturers and Importers R of course the new combination of golf The Sensational British Ball, LOW & HUGHES GOLF SHOP, Inc. New York City COUNTY GOLF COMPANY New York City The Booklet Goes Around in about 6! Write for it, Free An Easy Way to Remove Dandruff If you want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don’t. The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring 3, use enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications should completely re- move every sign and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and feel a hundred times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at.any drug store. A four- ounce bottle is usually all that is needed. The R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Sold at Last Persistency in inserting the same ad- vertisement, with no change of wording or illustration, is a trait of some advertisers. | A prospective customer wrote to a firm whose advertisement never seemed to change: “Have noted your picture of one pair corduroy pants in ‘Home Magazine’ for past four months. More I see of them better I like them. If not sold as yet, please enter my order for same.”—Forbes. Art Pour l’Art First Crook: Gyp is wedded to his art. He loves his crime just for the crime’s sake. Seconp Ditto: I'll say so. Gyp would use lead slugs in the street car fare slot if they cost him fifty cents apiece. —Nashville Tennessean. Irony and Big Eyes Help was scarce, and the packers had to be treated with great care to keep them from walking out. The foreman of the big apple-packing house had suffered almost all he could stand. A lull came in the rush of work, and one of .the sorters, a thin little girl with big eyes and an Irish name, began to try her hand at packing “Here, you!” cried the foreman. glad to relieve his feelings on some one. “Cut that out. Put that paper back!” The girl’s eyes grew larger as she meekly laid the ‘paper on the table; but she kept them fixed on him, unabashed. “Put it on the shelf where it lclongs,” he ordered. She did so and with her wide eyes still fixed on his said gently, “You don't haye to speak kind like that to me. I ain't sick or nothing.”—Youth's Companion. Optional Reading ENGLisH Proressor: you not prepared? Jones: I am prepared; you said, “Read ‘Twelfth Night or What You Will)” so I read “The Beautiful and Damned.” —Princeton Tiger. Jones, why are “ARE you going any farther Wi “I planned to,” said the foreign visitor. | “Is there any danger from Indians?” “Not if you keep out of the way of their | motor cars.”—Birmingham Age-Herald, Tight Shoes all feel the same 7 ..*i if you shake into them some ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE The Antiseptic, Healing Powder for the feet Takes the friction from the shoe, fresh- ens the feet and gives new vigor. At night when your feet are tired, sore and swollen from walking or danc- ing, sprinkle ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE in the foot-bath and enjoy the bliss of feet without an ache. Over 1,500,000 pounds ot Powder for the Feet @ were used by our Army and Navy during the war. In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE HOTEL ASPINWALL LENOX, MASS. High and Cool in the Berkshires A HOTEL OF DISTINCTION Opens June 17—Golf, Tennis, Saddle Riding, Garage. Desirable Cottages with Hotel Service. L. A. TWOROGER, Manager Winter Resort, Princess Hotel, Bermuda ‘So Easy to Use Rests the Feet comicbooks.com