Life, 1924-05-15 · page 12 of 46
Life — May 15, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct pieces of satire: **"Still Another Discovery"** (top): A professor demonstrates a pseudo-scientific discovery, claiming a rubber ball bounces due to "capillary attraction and the trade winds" rather than gravity. The satire mocks intellectuals who overcomplicate obvious phenomena with absurd theoretical explanations. **"My Husband Says"** (right column): A humorous domestic piece by L. Blanche Simpson about wives' decorating habits and fashion choices. The accompanying cartoon shows a wife caught opening her husband's mail, claiming it was marked "private." The satire targets wives' domestic authority and boundary-crossing behavior, reflecting early 20th-century gender dynamics and marital tensions around privacy and household control. Both pieces employ gentle ridicule of everyday behavior and social pretensions.
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LIFE - wer ones STILL ANOTHER DISCOVERY Prof. Wis: 1 More t HAVE MADE IT CLEAR; BRIEFLY, MY DIS- COVERY MEANS THAT A RUDDER EALL THROWN TO THE GROUND WOES NOT BOUNCE UP, AS IS POPULAKLY SUPPOSED, BUT THE FARTH BOUNCES BACK IMMEDIATELY IT 1S HIT—THE ILLUSION IS CKEATED THAT THE RUBBER BALL IS BOUNCING. AS Ye KNOW, 1 CALL THIS THE PULSATING THEORY OF ELECTRONS THEIK RELATION TO THE FORCE OF GRAVITY, CAPILLARY ATTRAC: TION AND THE TRADE WINDS. (Applause from a man who b American Bitters N sait bien la phrase de tous: “le gai Paris” — le Beigiqu sieur And d rit bien sans ame qui met * n “Amérique”? Ruth Wright Kauffman, My Husband Says HAT since I buy my clothes in the stylish stout de- partment I certainly don Mrs. I thing and run downstairs like water, ays that when sh ta reception or any- music s as she is descending the stairs, she always stands like Q Luise and waits until the music starts again, She says h But she looks awfully ber is contented because she has so discordantly Her hushand is ever so slender men are like that. ir life work at the age of three, when they laboriously dress their dolls and wheel them think it is peeslessly sad tl My husband says that we t, but you never saw a boy of three g an imitation of a father s a family He says around t jadies begin to devote them elves to the accumulati Jupois and ear- rings, and their husha ; ing to keep them that way “WHAT DO YOU MEAN, OPENING MY LETTERS?” “LE DON'T, ORDINARILY... .BUT BUT THIS WAS MARKED ‘PRivaTE'!” comicbooks.com