Life, 1922-08-10 · page 24 of 36
Life — August 10, 1922 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical pieces from Life magazine: **"Horoscope for This Week"** is a humorous mock-horoscope declaring the week "lucky for smugglers." It's satirizing Prohibition-era smuggling (note references to liquor, banned books like *Ulysses* and *Jurgen*), listing absurd contraband alongside actual illegal goods. The joke targets both smugglers' confidence and the era's widespread flouting of alcohol laws. **"They Never Will Be Missed"** is darker political satire. General Wu Pei-Fu (a Chinese warlord attempting modernization) is sarcastically offered a list of Americans to "export" to China—implying these figures represent America's worst cultural exports. The list mixes celebrities (Babe Ruth, Peggy Hopkins Joyce), politicians (Bryan), and institutions (Rotary Club, Wall Street, Congressional Record), suggesting American materialism, conformity, and commercialism are undesirable influences. The bottom cartoon depicts a woman explaining her husband profited from wartime canned salmon sales and now feels obligated to enjoy yachting—satirizing nouveau-riche war profiteers awkwardly adopting upper-class leisure activities.
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Horoscope for This Week HIS week is lucky if you are a smuggler. By a vote of nine drinks to seven (one abstaining) Lire’s Board of Astrology has de- cided that this week ought to be just dandy for smuggling. All the old almanacs say that Saturn, the patron planet of smugglers, is looking more saturnine than ever, a fact which the amateur astrologer may readily veri- fy by gazing at Saturn through a tel- escope until he gets fisherman's eye. Consequently, those engaged in smuggling pearl necklaces, hasheesh, bird of paradise feathers, Bolshevik The Guest: The Owner’s Wife: Well, no; he ain’t really, tracts, liquor, Chinese servants, or copies of Jurgen and Ulysses, should be able to fool the customs inspectors and evade the Canadian Mounted Police without any trouble at all. If your birthday occurs this week, you are susceptible to love, laziness, vanity, cruelty, anger, snobbery, fear, and pride, but on occasion can be kind, generous, and unselfish. Your success depends partly on how much you Will inherit, partly on whom you will or have married, and partly on your native ability to keep out of strange jails. EL E.P., Jr. They Never Will Be Missed F Gen. Wu Pei-Fu is sincere in his desire to create a United States of China and if, as the dispatches state, he has good reason to believe that the Americanization of China will work, the following should be offered him without delay: Voliva, Bryan, Norman Hapgood, Peggy (Hopkins) Joyce, Haroli Bell Wright. Constitution and By-laws of’ th Rotary Club. Babe Ruth. Eskimo Pie, William Hearst, Dr. Frank Crane. Wall Street. Main Street. Vaudeville. “Say it with flowers,” the Ameri can Federation of Labor. Flappers. The Congressional Record. Coney Island, Tag Day, Ford. Chop suey. Randolph ZL eS PNT rr I suppose your husband is very fond of yachting? Sometimes it makes him awful sick, but he made his money outa canned salmon durin’ th’ war an’ he feels he kinda owes it to the sea. comicbooks.com