Life, 1923-10-25 · page 15 of 34
Life — October 25, 1923 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of Life magazine's humor section. **"Life Lines"** offers brief social commentary, including jokes about Prohibition (alcohol being unequally enforced—rich getting good liquor while poor get worse), and observations about New York City becoming crowded. **"Observation"** presents a dinner-party anecdote about a guest who lacks observational skills, missing everyday details around him. **Two cartoons** appear lower on the page: 1. Top: "Shade of Noah Webster" – depicts men at leisure, with dialogue about someone's impressive qualities and musical talent. 2. Bottom: An office scene where a debt collector confronts someone about an unpaid bill, with the debtor attempting to avoid payment by claiming not to recognize the creditor. Both cartoons humorously depict common social embarrassments around money and awkward encounters.
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Life Lines N attempt has been made to indict Congressman Hill of Maryland because he made home-brew which possessed an alcoholic strength of twenty-five per cent. The trouble probably was that he never passed any of the stuff around. JL The truth of the Prohibition matter is thar the rich are getting as good liquor as ver, while the poor are getting poorer. . aL Wt it comes to holding world’s seres, New York begins to look like the Eternal City. aL In halkulating the kost of joining the Kl». one should take into konsider- ation the kover charge. JL Ind: pendent oil companies lost $500,- 000.00 in 1922, But there has been = oes ee * in SHADES OF NOAH WEBSTER! no «minution in the proverbial birth- ‘evofisuckers “My dear, last night I met the most divine egg | have eve rs, Fate" Ok SUCKERS. He's the porcupine’s quills, all of them. He has the biggest shoulders, aL they’re too cute for anything, and his nose and eyes are gorgeous, just The Prince of Wales may be Lord gorgeous. Does he dance well? A regular St. Vitus, 1 mean to tell of the Isles, but his title will be dis- you, And not only that, my dear, he plays the saxophone like an angel a out of heaven! He's the oil works, all right.” puted by any head usher in the better mov houses. ° Observation “THE trouble with most people,” I that contribute to make up one’s daily was telling the assembled guests, existence. Observation,” I added, “is “is that they fail to observe the unquestionably the most valuable of natural, everyday things in life—the all qualities.” persons they meet, what goes on It was not till I had finished that I UL around them, the places they visit, the noticed that the entire gathering were streets through which they pass—in asleep, save one member who had left brief, the thousand and one details the room. aL Automobile manufacturers are now putriig brakes on all four wheels. Absolute safety, however, will not be atta ned until some one puts a brake on the driver. \ total eclipse of the sun will be visible in Poughkeepsie in January, 1925. Special inducements will be of- fered to Vassar undergraduates to return from New York long enough to “itness the phenomenon. JL Filling in a possible gap between in- cone tax blanks and miscellaneous questionnaires come football ticket ap- plic ations. dL Se rching for the missing link, a pa::y of American explorers recently nN | \s . ; : traveled more than 10,000 miles. ie ‘ = i} I 2 Corrected figures show that this was Hil \ ee —— approximately 10,000 miles too far. on da yj Promising Material “)OTBALL COACH: What qual- ifications have you for quarter- back? Can you dodge in an open Z field? “THERE'S A MAN OUTSIDE, SIR, THAT W. \sprranT: I have been a pedestrian HIM, BE LWOULONS GIVE “HI WHAT DOES HE LOOK LIK in Detroit for sixteen years. “WELL, HE LOOKS LIKE You’D BETTER PAY IT.” comicbooks.com