Life, 1924-06-05 · page 28 of 48
Life — June 5, 1924 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains two distinct pieces of humor: **"The Head Office Boy"** (top cartoon): A boss and junior employee discuss an impending firing. The junior employee's anxiety suggests that competing against a college-educated rival makes his position precarious. The satire mocks early 20th-century class anxieties about education as a career prerequisite—even entry-level positions faced competition from the formally educated. **"Mail and Female"** (main article by Correy Ford): A married man discovers his wife has preserved old love letters, including one from a former flame named Elsie. His panicked attempts to destroy the letter backfire when his wife reveals it was actually *her* first letter to *him*—a comedic twist about marital misunderstanding and the dangers of assuming guilt. **"Missing Links"** (bottom): A brief joke about golfers who "drivel" instead of "drive" and "putter" incorrectly—a play on golfing terminology suggesting incompetence. The overall page satirizes gender dynamics and workplace/social hierarchies typical of the era.
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€ 9 Coasts c ark WHAT CHANST IN TH’ WORLD The Head Office Boy: WAVE ONE OF US 1S GOIN’ T’ GIT FIRED, CORKY ¢ COT UP AGAINST A GUY WIT A COLLEGE EDJICASHUN ? Mail and Female . VERY man has a theory that if there is one weakness ming where we are...” I skimmed along. “...everything at the Senior he can never fail to tease his wife about it is her ten is O.K....do you remember Lydia le Grand It is great fun for one of — Prom? Met her sister...” Good old Te at the piles that to write to Tommy desk. ink ha!” ious to get at looking for a good recipe. I put the letter aside. dency to save all her | pmy. I'd have us big. domineering males to poke fur - clutter up all the pigeonholes in a wom, 1, if this wasn't a coincidence. “I'm enclosing the we laugh. “Hahahal y I have been so of keeping old letters,” for the best stuff ever...” And here I had been Which is one reason v the accumulated correspondence that fills three drawers in “\. but [shall never forget How the 1 my own desk = this one get in her way I sat down to it yesterday and “| — the moon shone down on the water reached i m : that last night...my head on your . I stuffed it pocket hurriedly as my wife en- tered. Just clearing out the desk a lit- I stammered, and pointed to the single piece of evidence in the waste-basket. Angela’s eyes filled with tears kne “Here ge I muttered to my- 1 tore up a letter and nto my into the basket The address of caught my eye. It wa tive feminine hand, 3 ked “Maine.” By Ge ten Elsie Rumfrey Elsie! I ope here we'd planned to keep up our idge together all through the or! T put the letter “Do you know you've torn up my my first letter to you?” She turned away. d the envelope “You men—have no Corey Ford. —sentimen The next one had an address I might need sometime, and the next aunt who had si Missing Links OME golfers merely frivol; was from a quently died. I couldn't ¢ that one away! And the next was from Tommy M of fishing and ca Their ignorance is utter: gan. “...lots a I WONDER IF THEY ARE RE- They do not drive, they drivel; ig and swim- FERRING To ME? They do not putt, they putter. comicbooks.com