Life, 1922-06-22 · page 28 of 34
Life — June 22, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines: **Main Cartoons/Jokes:** - "Fancy Work": Backwoods settlers mock cookbook recipes for being overly complicated ("too much fancy work") - "An Impossible Person": A suitor claims he'll attempt the impossible to win a lady's esteem; she responds by asking him to become young, handsome, and intelligent—mocking his pretensions - "Things to Remember": A husband-wife exchange about forgiveness, with domestic irony - "No man is a hero to his bootlegger": A Depression-era reference mocking prohibition-era drinking **Context for Modern Readers:** These jokes reflect early 20th-century American attitudes: rural skepticism toward urban sophistication, gender dynamics in courtship, marital tension, and Prohibition-era alcohol culture. The "bootlegger" reference indicates illegal alcohol dealers during Prohibition (1920-1933). The page is predominantly **advertising**: a large Alcorub alcohol rub advertisement (marketed as medicinal) and a Life magazine subscription pitch, reflecting the era's different standards regarding alcohol marketing and magazine promotion.
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Fancy Work L Two old settlers sat smoking in a cabin far away in the backwoods. No feminine presence ever graced that set- tlement, and domestic arrangements were primitive and ave A ( A e conversation drifted from politi Prayer of a Young Man Seeking = é 7 4\i to cooking, and one of the confirmed Wisdom " y bachelors said: “I got one o’ them If to the ardors of my youth r 2 there cookery books once, but I never Be shown a facet of the truth, 7 ow ail could do nothin’ with it.” Let me not use so little wit “Too much fancy work about it?” To make myself high priest of it, f ( asked the other. Believe it absolute, and blind Zs A “You've it it. Every one o’ them My sight to that which others find. i : recipes begun in the same way, ‘Take a —L. A. G. Strong, in the Spectator, ‘ j clean dish——,’ and that settled me at once.”—Tit-Bits (London). The First Step “I have just been elected Grand Im- perial Potentate of my lodge.” Things to Remember Huspanp: Oh, don’t remind me of “Congratulations, old man. That's . that escapade. I thought you had for- e.’ y given and—forgotten. “Well, it’s a beginning anyhow. I ce - Wire: Yes, but I don’t want you to hope to get one of the really important ae forget that I’d forgiven and—for, . offices later on.”—New York Sun. —London Mail. a AN IMPOSSIBLE PERSON — Mr. Proriteer: Out of the million I “Lady, to gain your esteem I am ready “What do you do when you don't made during the war, my poor dear, to attempt the impossible!” wear an overcoat?” I have exactly a dollar and a half left. “The impossible? All right. Try to “Pad my other hip.”—Brown Ji. Mrs. Proriteer: Let that be a lesson become young, handsome, intelligent, to, you for the next time. . distinguished . . . .” No man is a hero to his bootlegger. —Le Journal Amusant (Paris). —Le Rire (Paris). —New York Tribune. Lire_is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U.S. Breams Buildings, London, E. C. Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay, Patent Office: $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign 386-388 St. James Street,’ Montreal, Canada. countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped end numbers cannot be supplied. addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss or The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights "om-return of unsolicited contributions. ; in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Notice of change of address should reach this office two week's prior Lane, London, E. C., England. to the date of issue to be affected. Keep Cool! Keep Clean! Keep Healthy! Fora delightful sensation of physical vigor and comfort, use the Origi- nal and Genuine ALCORUB. Recommended by physicians and nurses for every external purpose for which grain alcohol was formerly used. ALCORU B || Like other newsboys, his pack carries many versions of the news For After of the day—all in the one paper. Rub-Down Bathing Bathing Invalids Exercise LIFE Elderly People Shaving | Babies Golf || Amusement, information, prose, verse, Athletes Tennis || pictures, text. Fun above all! Sore Muscles All Sports | Obey That Impulse and Subscribe! The Scalp Exposure s z i pecial Offer ee gee || Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian cory Hest and for the removal of || $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Lire for Tasect Bites Perspiration Odors || the next ten weeks—to At All Druggists In Sealed Pint Bottles Only U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. Largest Producer in the World | Open only to new subscribers ; no sub- New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, i is rate. Buffalo, K City, Pittsburg, New . a scriptions renewed at this rate Cincinnati, St. Paul, Peoria, Indianapolis LIFE, 598 Madison Ave, New York a One Year $5, Canadian $5.80, Foreign $660 comicbooks.com