Life, 1924-07-10 · page 28 of 36
Life — July 10, 1924 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several short humorous items typical of Life's satirical format, plus an advertisement. **The "Slander" item** references a Democratic Senator (identity unclear from text alone) who received a compromising telegram from a young woman. When his wife confronts him, he deflects by blaming Republicans for orchestrating the scandal as a "Presidential year" dirty trick. The joke satirizes political hypocrisy—the Senator's immediate instinct is to spin the situation as partisan sabotage rather than accept responsibility. **Other brief items** mock various social situations: naive courtship, second-hand cars, and Scottish fishing exaggeration—standard Light humor about human folly. **The cartoon** (center) shows a couple beneath a tree. The dialogue depicts working-class flirtation with dialectal speech, apparently British based on the "Humorist (London)" attribution. **The bottom half** is a Crichton & Co. advertisement for reproduction silverware. The page is primarily humorous filler and advertising rather than sustained political commentary.
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A fellow at Ann Arbor has brought suit because the second-hand car ht “sounded like a threshing machine.” He'd better consider himself lucky that it didn’t sound like a second-hand car. C. A., in Detroit News. Naiveté An ingenuous young follows : “Tam engaged to a very nice boy who thinks the world of me, and so do I.” Louisville Courier-Journal. lady writes as Languishing He: Darling, we may have to wait a year. te: Never mind! We may not love cach other then.—Boston Transcript. “Ler us repair to the kitchen, the carpenter, as he measured the ha a new floor.—Toronto Telegram. Lass: Jes’ MUSTN'T Go AN’ SQUEEZE LIKE THAT ANY MORE, Laap! Sluggard Swain: LIKE WOT, MARTITA? Languishing Lass: on, YE LOIKE, LAAD—OT STtA\ —Humorist (London). Slander A Democratic Senator, so the story goes, was guilty of an indiscretion. More- over, the young woman was reckless enough to send him a telegram at his house, which fell into the hands of his wife during his absence. When the Sena- tor came home he was confronted with the message, but with a fine display of anger and admirable presence of mind he exclaimed, “Those dirty Republicans will stoop to anything in a Presidential year!” —H. Broun, in New York World. Night Club Colloquy Hawitut (10 waiter): I say, Charles how much did I spend on drinks here last night? Wartee : Haniry lost it Two pounds ten, sir. Oh, good, I thought I had Passing Show (London). xow, Ix Scotland recently a man caught « salmon weighing sixty pounds. American papers please exaggerate. —London Opinion. SQUEEZE YE NY WAY "tr winxp! Owner oF Seconn-Haxnn Two-seatrx Well, good-bye, old bean—in case sh starts. —Punch, Lire is published every Thursday, simultancously In the United States, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U.S. ‘a $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign untries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back ers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain eprly to Lire, Rolis House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. The foreign trade supplied. from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams_ Buildings, London, E. C, Canadian distributor, ‘The American News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped ant addressed envelope. Live docs not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two wecks prior to the date of issue to be offected. CF SSS ASE ra CRICHTO Goldsmiths and Silversmiths New York- 636. Fifth Avenue [corner of 518 Street} Chicago~018. So.Michigan Avenue. HE classic beauty of Queen Anne and Georgian Silver is faith- fully rendered in the fine Reproductions made by Crichton craftsmen in London. There are many superb originals of these great periods in the collec- tion of Early English Silver at the Crichton Galleries. &CO. LTD. comicbooks.com