Life, 1923-11-01 · page 30 of 41
Life — November 1, 1923 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page combines short humorous anecdotes with advertisements. The satirical content includes: **"Absent When Wanted"**: A dialectal joke about an elderly Black man scolding the wind for its severity—playing on period stereotypes through exaggerated speech patterns. **"Wrong Tactics"**: Social commentary mocking a health officer's strategy of publishing disease symptoms to warn the public, with his superior arguing this backfires by making people *think* they have the illness. **"Walter the Wayfarer"**: A sketch-style comic from *Punch* magazine about a shabby man requesting cigarette butts from a club floor. **Various one-liners**: Including a Arizona mining-claim warning about a wife-stealer and observations on marriage dynamics. The page is otherwise dominated by period advertisements (McCutcheon's handkerchiefs, Holland-America cruise line), typical of *Life* magazine's revenue model. The humor relies heavily on class-based and racial stereotypes common to 1920s American satire.
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Absent When Wanted sAUT ScISSORS An aged colored man, clad in two or z= three suits of old clothes and an overcoat AUT NULLus | of ancient lineage, was feebly breasting a b i his way against the winter’s chilling blasts. “Wind,” he was heard to apostrophiz« New Tag to Old Proverb i i \ 4 , a particularly ferocious gust, “wind, whar Notice in Arizona—My wife Sarah ade wuz yo’ las’ Augus’?” has left my ranch and any man as takes | e y —Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern. her in will get himself pumped so full of lead some tenderfoot will locate him for l . a mining claim. A word to the wise is = fi Wrong Tactics sufficient and orter work on fools.” ( ao “There's a queer disease _going —Boston Transcript. : Me around,” announced the health officer, 4 “and to put people on their guard I'll . LNs f just publish the symptoms.” Tabloid Drama a : “Nunno, nunno,” said his chief “That is just the way to make them think “Here comes a good-lookin’ fellow, Mazie. What're we doin’ to-day, flirtin’ they Ravelie” or bein’ indignant?” —Louisville Courier-Journal. New York Sun and Globe. Paper: You'll ruin your stomach, my good man, drinking that stuff. Walter the Wayfarer (huskily): 11, Otp Soak: ’Sall right, ’sall right. It “Don't care. MATE, ’AVE A DEKKO ROUND THE won't show with my coat on. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. FLOOR NG E —Oregon Orange Owl. “Wuat do you think is the popular Scene—Outside West End Club, attitude toward evolution?” —Reproduced from Punch (Lon- 27 Newsnoy (to unhappy-looking person) : don) by arrangement with the When a married man does get the last "Ere you are, guv’nor—all the losers! Proprietors. word it frequently is, “Now, what will I —Cassell’s Magazine. : roit Ne Lire is published every Thursday, simultane n the United States, ade s fi , London Office, Rolls Hous« Great Britain, Canada and British Possession itle registered in in} lc Ge 8 distributor, "The Americ Patent. Office. $3.00 a year in ce. Additional postage to foreign a J., 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada. countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back Sreeets canner be scpatiee No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped ani pers cannot be s ed. addressed envelope. Lire docs not hold itscif responsible Jor the loss or The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights Non-return of unsolicited contributions. in Great Britain apply to , Rois House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Notice of change of address should reach this office two wecks prior Lane, London, E. C to the date of issue to be affected. Me Cutcheon S LUXURY CRUISE Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Streets, N. Y. Handkerchiefs M EDITERRAN EAN ’ for Christmas Gifts PALESTINE +EGYPT So The outstanding Cruise of the coming Winter Season, of absorbing interest to those who value luxurious comfort at sea, refined environment and pleasing personal service. Leaving New York, February 6, 1924 by the famous “ROTTERDAM” and under the personal management of the HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE The ‘‘ROTTERDAM”’ 24,170 tons register, 37,190 tons displacement (All Pure Linen) = Sa . yee Linen Store has long been famed for the quality and smartness of its Handkerchiefs. Discrim- inating people prefer to give and to receive boxes of Christmas Handkerchiefs that bear the McCutcheon “Spinning Wheel” —symbol of purest linen and finest handiwork. Sao os Sen De: == == =— Has a world-wide reputation for the magvificeace and comfort of her appointments, the surpassi: g excel.eace of her cuisine and the high standard of serv.ce a .d maaagement on board. (Sixty-Five Days of Delight“ul Diversion) ITINERARY includes Madeira, Portugal, Spain, Algiers, Tunis, Greece, Constantinople, the Holy Land and Egypt, Italy and the Riviera. Carefully planned Shore Excursions. Stopover in Europe Cruise limited to 500 guests. I/Iustrated folder “‘B”’ ae Se: —< == You are invited to inspect the McCutcheon display of Christmas Hand- gusets. kerchiefs. There are most attractive gifts HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE for Women, Men, and Children, at prices 21-24 State Street, New York ithi i Bost Detroit Philadelchi well within what you wish to pay. Sey Adee Ga Now Orleans St. Louis Seattle San Francisco Or any authorized Steamship Agent x = == = comicbooks.com