Life, 1923-05-17 · page 20 of 46
Life — May 17, 1923 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A tailor assures a customer his suit "fits like a glove," but the irate customer retorts it fits like a "boxing-glove"—meaning the suit is too tight and awkwardly puffy, making the wearer look absurd or overly bulky. This is a straightforward joke about poor tailoring. **"My Husband Says":** A humorous domestic column where a wife discusses her husband's opinions on urban driving, fashion trends (particularly skirt length), and other modern concerns. The tone is gently satirical about married life and spousal disagreements—he finds traffic anxiety-inducing; she finds it fascinating. The mention of vaccination scars and David (biblical reference) adds period-appropriate absurdist humor. **"Vacation Cruises" and "The Cruising Fever Again":** Features caricatured politicians (likely Weeks, Harding, Hughes, and a Congressman, based on labels), apparently commenting on cruise vacations—likely satirizing politicians' leisure habits or travel during a particular political moment. **"Fateful Ways":** A brief comic verse about random misfortune, where Fate cannot even explain her cruelty—dark humor about life's inexplicable hardships.
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IT can’t see anything wrong with that suit, sir. It fits like a glove. Irate Customer: Yes—a boxing-glove. My Husband Says HAT the traffic makes him nervous when he motors — him lots of inspiration. Though one can’t tell even yet to town. But I think it is awfully interesting to whether skirts will be worn long or short. see so many trucks and teams and things all in a bunch; Of course one can have one’s skirts cut long, and then and the traffic officer looking like a windmill, have them shortened if the long style does not take. He says he wouldn't care to park the car and look in That reminds one of vaccination. I think vaccination the windows. But I think it would rest him and give _ is silly. It leaves such ugly marks on one. My husband says he likes style up to a certain point, but there should ae be an open season for some of the = RG ey von whe ne shoe sree: He == z does not like them when they are a VA Cc AT SOW CRUISES sprung or too thin, and says if David = — is had lived in these days his cry would not have been, “O Lord, how long?” BiB: S: Fateful Ways Fate hit me very hard one day; I cried, “What is my fault? What have I done? What causes, pray, This unprovoked assault ?” She paused, then said, “Darned if I know, I really can’t explain,” And just before she turned to go She whacked me once again! comicbooks.com