Life, 1922-08-03 · page 29 of 36
Life — August 3, 1922 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page contains period humor and advertisements rather than political cartoons. **"For Husbands Only"** is satirical advice mocking husbands' deceptive behavior before wives return home—hiding evidence of neglect (dead goldfish), covering up activities (altering the car's mileage), removing personal items (golf bag, bathing suit), and destroying financial records (burning the checkbook). The joke targets marital dishonesty and male irresponsibility. **"Things People Brag About"** is a humorous list of contradictory or trivial accomplishments people claim—ability with typewriters, rolling umbrellas, and trivial skills—alongside contradictory status claims (being "100% American" versus "1% American," having/not having doctors). The final aphorism mocks the justice system: acquittal depends on having resources for repeated trials, not innocence. The page also features advertisements for Tiffany & Co. jewelry, Garco asbestos products, and Meyer Both's commercial art college—typical period advertising reflecting early 20th-century consumer culture and the era's tragic lack of asbestos-hazard awareness.
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mbert For Husbands Only FORE your wife returns from her outing, don’t forget to— Buy goldfish to take the place of those you let starve to death. Change the speedometer on the car to read 1,324 miles instead of 4,568 miles Take your golf bag off the piano. Put “David Copperfield,” “The Life of Sir Walter Scott,” and “The Principles of Business Efficiency” on the reading table. Throw away all magazines you have purchased dur- ing her absence. Remove your bathing suit from the bath tub. Get a rusty corkscrew. Burn your checkbook. Variant . Pop, what's a happy me- dium?” “Oh, one that isn’t in jail, I guess.” a Spinsiing yarn about GAR ASBESTOS PRODUCTS From the time the crude as- bestos leaves the mines until it is made into automobile brake lining, packings or elec- tric heater cord, every process is under our supervision. Spe- cialization gives to all GARCO Asbestos Products that inher- ent quality which has created a great National demand. GeneralAsbestos & Rubber Company Branches: New York Chicago Pittsburgh Main Offices and Factories: Charleston, S. C. ALL MAIL Inquiries RECEIVE Prompt ATTENTION FIFTH AVENUE & 37! STREET NEw YORK TIFFANY & CO. JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS Things People Brag About HE fact that they can operate a typewriter by the touch system. The ability to roll an umbrella. Being able to drive a tack. Knowing a “little something” about Art. Their famous or quaintances. A college education. - The lack of it. Being normal. Being abnormal. Being a 100% American. Being a 1% American. Not having had a doctor in eleven years—or.is it twelve? infamous ac- A MAN can always be acquitted if he has enough trials. WE TEACH COMMERCIAL T Properly Trained Artists Earn $100 a week and up. Meyer Both College—a Department of the Meyer Both Company—olfers you a different and practical training. If you like to draw, develop our talent. Study this practical course—taught y 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 for commercial artists is ar. It's his itt foots, before zou, soroll tn sz senoel Se special booklet, “Your Opportunity”—for half the cost of mailing—4o in stamps. comicbooks.com