Life, 1924-03-06 · page 3 of 42
Life — March 6, 1924 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This small cartoon depicts two cherubs or putti opening a large satchel labeled "$100,000," from which money spills out. The caption "PANDORA'S SATCHEL" makes the classical reference explicit. The satire compares the satchel to Pandora's Box from Greek mythology—the vessel that, when opened, released all evils upon humanity. Here, the joke inverts the myth: instead of releasing troubles, opening this satchel releases vast sums of money ($100,000 was an enormous sum in the early 20th century). The cartoon likely mocks either sudden wealth, get-rich-quick schemes, or the notion that finding large amounts of money is somehow dangerous or corrupting—a cautionary tale dressed as a seemingly fortunate discovery. The accompanying story "Haunted" supports themes of unexpected, troublesome fortune.
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The Vulnerable Heel Proressox Buotter of Columbia University, who invented the kind of concrete which is used nowadays in all the erasers on lead pencils, was the first one to attack the detached-heel_ problem with a view to correcting this universal annoyance “L discovered the habit in its most virulent form in our Dr. Blotter yesterday walks to the hack of your and stands there. You walk away and leave your heel behind. The rest of the journey you go about on spikes, as if you were in a track meet “At first there was considerable op- position to my investigations on the part of the rubber heel industries. I learned that hundreds of the best heelers in t! subway were directly under their con- trol. Statistics show that they remove tons of leather heels every month. “Discarding my original idea of crossing the leather heels with carrier pigcons as a bit visionary,” continued Dr. Blotter, “I decided to adopt the simple method of attaching every heel to the rest of the shoe by a long elastic. Whenever it is stepped on, it will snap back into place as good as new “In tim concluded Dr. Blotter, “I shall apply this same principle to rubbers.” Cok P Haunted A Souter Californian who had made a small fortune through renting his home for use by moving picture companies was visiting in the East “Do you know,” he complained to one of his hosts, “that house of mine haunts me. I went into a moving picture theatre in Chicago, and there the house stood, with a burglar jimmying his into my den. When I got to Cleveland, there it was again, and the cook was throwing a custard pie in the funny tramp’s face. I thought I was rid of it when I reached Pittsburgh, but alas, there it was, with a bulldog chasing the rejected suitor out of the front door. In desperation I hurried on to New York, but I couldn't get away from it digging fishing worms in my garden PANDORA'S SATCHE’. USTIC is as essential to the home as books or flowers. Nearly every home has music in some form. But the lover of books asks something more than a shelf or two. He wants a library. The lover of flowers wants something more than a border. He wants a garden. And so, more and more lovers of music are installing in their homes the greatest musical ingtrument of the world, a pipe organ. ‘THE ESTEY PIPE ORGAN Estey Organ Co., Brattleboro, Vermont comicbooks.com