Life, 1924-02-21 · page 6 of 36
Life — February 21, 1924 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**"Mr. Kleboe's Clinker"** (top cartoon): Shows a man discarding what appears to be a defective furnace part from his home. The caption notes he's owned this problematic clinker since December 21, 1921, and finally decided to remove it—likely a contemporary reference to an actual malfunctioning furnace that became a running joke among readers. **"Ten Months to Pay"** (middle section): A humorous list of absurd damages and repairs, mostly satirizing poor car maintenance and automotive mishaps. The humor relies on mundane domestic frustrations. **"Pippa Peace Passes"** (bottom cartoon): Shows a woman visiting an "Oldest Curiositie Shoppe," satirizing consumerism and nostalgic acquisition of antiques or oddities. The page represents typical 1920s-era satirical humor about consumer goods and domestic life.
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Mr. Kleboe’s Clinker No. 8—Mr. Kleboe has a new clinker! which has been in his furnace since Dec After finally wearing out the natural clinker 1921, he was so lonesome and unoccupied without it that he has had a special iron clinker made and is going to put it into his furnace for pastime FINIS,.) Ten Months to Pay FTY per balance on easy terms,” they said but the t the half of it Not by an elaborate collection of thirty- cent. down and the balance wa’ day notes, it wa Item one, which barked up the wrong tree 1 Two new headlight lenses, be New radiator to succeed old cause car proved unusually poor jumper when put to fence Item: First-aid to injured mudguard. attributable to that “S.T-O-P" ranted invasions of personal liberty common feeling lights are wholly unwar- I One new battery, owing to use of distilled water for necd—gin, Item more know Two new shoes, because ra their is approaching pressing if you m slow down won't trains when an automobil Item: One fine, paid on failure convince justice of the peace that mc cycle cop wasn't exceeding the s: limit when he caught us. Item: Sundry dressmaker’s bills, oc- casioned by getting a certain pers one, or possibly two stitches fit to wear when motoring rf One case of dered to. State some one put it in our car as a joke while we were in Canada. Scotch, trooper to prove that surren- Item case, broken en route Ttem vote their lives to raising deaf chickens Two quarts from remaining Damages to farmers who d for highway cc Jai Twigs "TIS an amusing thing to sce The topmost twigs on a growing tree Look down with freshly worded scorn On the boughs by which they are up borne. Below, beneath contempt, is sunk The twigless Mid-Viet While as to know roots—how should they There must be roots for them to grow? “We twigs are Life, are Youth,” they say; We are To. “We are the world! ay and trunk-bark talk of boughs rou And tribal myth of reots—Old Stuff!” The tree minds not the little dears, It has had twigs in previous years Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Definitions ONSERVATIVE One who retains in his ancestral home father had it alled. Radical—One ancestral home—because the plumbing who burns down his is olete. Progressive—One who puts the most modern plumbing in his ancestral hy # Giaert | ie eyes ie PIPPA PEACE PASSES “—ALL’S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD,” comicbooks.com