Life, 1922-09-28 · page 30 of 36
Life — September 28, 1922 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, dominated by a large W.L. Douglas Shoes advertisement featuring a portrait of the company's founder and claims about direct-to-consumer factory pricing ("one cent of profit until shoes are sold to you"). The satirical content consists of three brief humor pieces: 1. **"Returned with Interest"**: A small-town joke about two men named John Jones (a baker and a sweep/chimney cleaner) whose names were so frequently confused that the baker had to publish a newspaper notice denying any connection to the other. 2. **"An Easy One"**: A hotel humor snippet about a waiter with no arms serving food. 3. **"Following Through"**: A golf joke where someone claims golf is "an old man's game," and another replies "I can't afford it either"—mocking golf's expense. These are typical *Life* magazine light humor pieces—quick, pun-based jokes requiring no political or historical context beyond understanding early 20th-century social conventions (class distinctions, occupational humor, golf as wealthy-man's sport).
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LIFE W LDOUGLAS $5.00 $6.00 $700 & $800 SHOES iia W. L. Douglas $7.00 and $8.00 shoes are absolutely the best shoe values for the money in this country. They aremade of the best and finest leathers, by skilled shoemakers, all working to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. The quality is unsurpassed. The smart styles are the leaders in the fashion centers of America. Only by examining them can youappreciate their wonderful value. Shoes of equal quality cannot be bought elsewhere at anywhere near our prices. W. L. Douglas shoes are put into all of our 108 stores at factorycost. We donot make one cent of profit until the shoes are sold to you. |WEAR W-L. DOUGLAS|W. L. Douglas $4.00 and SHOES AND SAVE MONEY. $4.50 shoes for bcys, best in quality,bestin style,best \all around shoes for boys. It is worth dollars for you to remember that when you buy shoes at our stores YOU PAY ONLY ONE PROFIT. No matter where you live, shoe dealers can supply you with W. L. Douglas shoes. They cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York. Insist upon having W. L. Price stamped on the sole. Do not takea substitute and py extra profits. Order direct from the factory and save money. Write for Catalog Today Pres. W. L. Douglas Shoe Cou, 7 147 Spark St.,Brockton, Mass. Free Dog Book by noted specialist. Tells how to FEED AND TRAIN iu dog KEEP HIM HEALTHY an CURE DOG DISEASES How to put dog in condition, kill leas, cure scratchir3, mange. dis- temper. Gives twenty-five famous Q-W DoG REMEDIES and 150 illustrations of dog leads, training collars, harness, stripping combs, dog houses, ele. | Mailed free. [sa Bound est, Newbery | Dept. 19 Bound Brook, New Jersey e MADISON AVE., 43rd TO 44th STREETS NEW YORK Tea in the Palm Room Dancing in the Supper Room JOHN McE. BOWMAN, ~ President RT FOOLISH NTEMPORARIES A Sea-Change One of the most amusing of Mr. George Robey’s stories concerns a gilded youth of somewhat effeminate tendencies, who found himself “stony broke.” Realizing that his only chance lay in a new country, he decided to go to America, and as he could not pay his passage money, tried to get a job on one of the boats crossing the At- lantic. Ship after ship he tried in vain, and at last began to despair of ever getting out of England—shipping people did not seem to hike him. At last he tried a big liner on the verge of sailing, and found that a stoker had failed to turn up. With great joy he signed on, went aboard, was directed below by the cap- tain, and disappeared. Nothing was seen or heard of him for three days, but on the fourth day the skipper suddenly came upon a re- splendent figure in full yachting kit, with glasses slung over one shoulder, promenading the deck. “What the — are you doing here?” he demanded. “T thought I told you to go below?” The youth gazed rapturously at the irate officer, stepped back, tapped him lightly on the shoulder, and said, “Oh, haven’t you heard? I’ve left.” —Tatler (London). Following Through “Bah! Golf is an old man’s game!” “T can’t afford it either.” ~-Nashville Tennessean. Douglas shoes with the name and retail | Returned with Interest A sweep and a baker in a small coup try town had quarrelled. Strange); enough, they had exactly the sam names. One morning the local pape contained the following announcement “In consequence of frequent and jr. ritating mistakes, John Jones, the baker begs to announce that he is not the sam person as John Jones, the sweep, ay that he has no connection with the latter.” But he was more irritated than ever when he read the sweep’s reply, which appeared in the next copy of the paper “John Jones, the sweep, who was de. clared yesterday to be a different perso from, and to be in no way connectej with, John Jones, the baker, wishes to be known in future as ‘Lucky John Jones.’ ”"—Answers (London) In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-Easi| An Easy One Current Events TEACHER: Who married Princess Mary? Owner oF Quickest Hann: Oh, 1 know that one. Doug! —American Legion W'cekly, Hore: Guest (to waiter): call that a large portion? Warter: Yes, sir; you have no idea how small a large portion can be at present.—Simplictssimus (Munich). Do you i [th /henue’ kvoritel} There is somethi fine about i Ww DEMUTHeCo NEW YORK ‘Sand up re better smoke shops Samples and prices on req SCOTT FARM | BRATTLEBORO, VERMON \\ What of the. Dr. 1 Read t latest MY More | of the NON The bur tivity in ture 1 Prohibit and Ile Tua comicbooks.com