Life, 1924-05-29 · page 6 of 38
Life — May 29, 1924 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon depicts a street scene with well-dressed men in top hats and coats gathered around an automobile. The caption reads: "Why isn't you remove your hat when you bow?" / "You wouldn't ave me taken for a panhandler, would you, guv'nor? and what's a little loan, as between friends?" **The satire:** This appears to mock nouveau riche or pretentious urban men using affected speech ("guv'nor," "panhandler") while requesting money. The automobile—a status symbol of wealth—contrasts with the beggar-like behavior, suggesting wealthy men's shameless borrowing from friends despite their ostentatious displays of affluence. The page also contains two unrelated pieces: "My Husband Says" (domestic humor) and "A Caterpillar" (a poem by Kenneth Slade Alling).
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WHY DON’T YOU REMOVE “YOU WOULDN'T "AVE ME TAKEN FOR A PANHANDLER, YoUK HAT WHEN YOU BF WOULD You, i i) yretet AS BETWEEN FRIENDS My Husband Says HAT the ambition of every true New Englander is to dic, so he can see his obituary in the Transcript, but some New Yorkers prefer to live and read their mistakes in the Spur. I don't care much for those things, but I think it must be heavenly to read about on thes, OF course, my primrose negligee with the silver ribbon h to describe ys you have to be a great social favorite or do is the only thing I have that is lovely eno and he something dreadiul to get ye But I love too, My husband says it makes him nervous to hear me ces in print read the rtisements in our own paper reading them and he dislikes to appear set in his ideas but he doesn’t care to hear any more about Hatching Eggs at any price, and I simply can't keep chickens in the old bird-cage even if they are fi for farming. He says he likes the animals, but he never fy. He really doesn't care knows what to say to them. We saw some da asked their attendar Angora goats at a fair and he t what season of the year they re- moved the fur from them. Ww s Narcan 7 IVNER? AND WHAT'S A LITTLE LOAN, The man said he was a seventh son and he sensed that my husband was not a farmer. But told us they cut the fur off in he was awfully polite and January to keep the goats vol L. A Caterpillar HORNED harlequin; black satin fellow, His vestment clasped with double sti A mild worm in ferocic A demon to the dweller of the Blanche Simpson, of yellow asquerade ; Whose boundary’s the perimeter of shade That our primeval apple tree has mad He moves not laterally nor turns him back, Travels t He has his vision al Toward some far cov ly an ordained track proceeds ry of prodigious deeds K neth Slade Alling. comicbooks.com