Life, 1924-06-12 · page 8 of 44
Life — June 12, 1924 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three humorous pieces about travel and social observation, typical of Life's satirical format. The top cartoon "Get a Horse!" depicts a cherub riding a bucking horse while holding an airplane, satirizing the contrast between old and new transportation methods—likely mocking either early aviation's unreliability or the transition from horses to planes. "Doesn't Travel Broaden One?" by Percy Waxman humorously catalogs American tourists' experiences abroad, particularly in Paris and Italy, emphasizing their cultural insensitivity and tendency to complain rather than appreciate differences. "Summer Resorts Are Such Funny Places" by C.G.S. satirizes the gossipy, cliquish nature of resort society, where everyone knows scandalous secrets about each other while maintaining social pretense. The bottom cartoon about "commuting" with a fifty-trip ticket appears to comment on frequent transatlantic travel among the wealthy.
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LIFE Doesn't Travel Broaden One> W'! "RE all going abroad again this summer. Isn't it > T thrilling rere’s really nothing like travel to-broaden one, is there? My, how we did have the laugh on poor old Europe last summer! ‘ll never forget it We had the luck to be in Paris when the frane was at its lowest, and you should have scen their faces when we be five- and ten-frane tips to taximen and chamber They all thought we must be millionaires. wouldn't be a bad town if it weren't so immoral, but it that it’s jazzier than London, There's a burg for you Rains every day and you positively have to hunt for ice with your drinks. And I thought I'd die at the way the women dress. Mother and Sis used to burst right out in their faces. Idn't help it, positive Ane went to Haly T used to call the waiters me. Gee! these Europeans have no humor, have they Guess they're pretty our money, though, now they're all nearly down and out And at that I'm ed to be sailing again, as I don’t think there’s anyt the world that broadens one like travel—do you? Waxman. Tales of a Traveler ur party who wasn't seasick.” te I right but give me our little old Street every time could settle this reparations ss in fifteen minutes.” wlike to tell you what I found out about who really ted the war.” ..try to rob everybody oks an American vut I told them where to get of “cet A Worse!” ..certainly broadens one.” McC. H. Summer Resorts Are Such Funny Places UMMER resorts are such funny places Such funny things happen at them There is always a certain group that never speaks to anybody else. d then, there are other g that never even speak to themselves. Every one is so funn g week But they are much funnier over week-ends And the week-enders are so funny There is always a lot of scandal at summer resorts Everybody knows something about everybody else And how they love to whisper i identially” ! T couldn't begin to tell you all the funny things they know There are so many of them. I often wonder what the native villagers think of summer resorts They are such ny pls Such funny things happen at them. COMMUTING E ~ “DIDN'T 1 MEET YOU ON THIS SHIP WHEN 1 CROSSED A KLANSMAN is one who would like to sce the United MONTH AGO? States under a nordictatorship. American: YES, 1 MAVE A FIPTY-TRIP TICKET. comicbooks.com