Life, 1924-08-14 · page 34 of 36
Life — August 14, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines corporate advertising with satirical humor typical of *Life* magazine's format. **The main cartoon** ("Every Little Nation Has a Manner All Its Own") illustrates national stereotypes through four men slipping on ice in Paris. The joke relies on exaggerated ethnic characterizations: the Frenchman chases a pretty woman, the American immediately gets violent and punches restaurant staff, the Englishman writes a formal complaint letter citing poetry, and the German begins writing a scholarly dissertation. Each represents a crude caricature of national behavior—French romanticism, American aggression, British formality, and German intellectualism. **The context**: This reflects early 20th-century attitudes toward European nations, written likely during or after WWI when such stereotypes were common currency in American humor. The page is primarily **advertising** for The Continental and Commercial Banks (Chicago), with additional ads for dog remedies and foot powder. The "Policy" essay at top is corporate messaging dressed as editorial content.
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32 + LIFE - AN EXTRA MEASURE OF SERVICE How It Started Waite on his vacation in Yellow- stone Park, Horatius Van Piffle, out seeking a lark, Unluckily came to a hot water wel And as he peered in it he stumbled anid (ON iat fell. ; But his ultimate words before passin away Have lived in our language to this ve day: “I'm drowning,” he murmured, “ani POLICY is the body of principles which guide the condu@& death won't be sweet, . of the organization. Every business concern has a policy Don't get the idea that I died of t because even no policy is a policy. heat. To think that the cause should be utt In this institution the policy is definite and pronounced. It stupidity— calls always for constructive financial service to American It isn't the heat I) mind; it’s business, In war or peace, in Storm or calm, there has been humidity.” no departure from that policy. Carroll. Five thousand customer banks and many thousand indi- vidual customers attest it. It is one of the striking com- Still to Come ponents of the extra measure of service normal to these banks. Many improvements are noted » sports model automobiles, but a fortu: awaits the designer of one guarante COMMERCIAL merase Tue inevitable squaring of the circ! is illustrated by the fact that those war- ships which had to be scrapped as a CHICAGO result of the Disarmament Conferenc were used for target practice. RESOURCES MORE THAN 500 MILLIONS). Every Little Nation Has a Manner All Its Own A Frexcuman, an American, an Englishman and a German were walk- ing down a street in Paris one sleety winter’s day. The Frenchman called the attention of his comrades to a pretty grisette at the crossing. So decidedly pretty was she that all four failed to notice a slippery place on the pavement, left uncleared by a careless restaurant proprietor, Down went the quartette. Your ‘ / The Frenchman sprang up hghtly heep them fit this way / and, oblivious of the damp spot he was It f lessall day it chi i i y e on your feet more 0! ia carrying behind him, hurried after the apply Absorbine, Je. You almost se pretty girl; the American leaped up, thachot, tired aching feeling disappear dashed into the restaurant and pro- as the muscles relax their tension. A ceeded to punch the noses of the pro- soothing, cooling sensation comes prietor, the cook, the cashier and three muy ee raspy a vai glecti Sect r, shake a fe’ he fo of the waiters for neglecting to keep the bath, It provides a delightfully invig- sidewalk cleared, and thus endangering orating sense of comfort and prepares the lives of the passers-by ; the English- you foran evening of dancing or other Sad lowly, limped to his hotel pleasure. by noted speciaist. Tella how to man got up slowly, to his | . ; FEED boat pena and wrote a letter filled with indigna- pic brorbioe, 35 coruntes thas oer eee keep fim HEALTHY tion and quotations from Tennyson toilet requisite and first aid in emergencies. CURE DOG” DISEASES to The Times; while the German At all drussists’, $1.25, or postpaid . ‘s es A trial bottle, 10, postpaid How to put dog in condition, kill remained seated on the pavement and, Smeaatiea > — femmes Cine vonteaes iecoes taking out a note-book, began imme Wea to ga Gi ing out a note-book, n - yman temper. Gives twenty-Gve famous ig 8: sift byman, St i -volume disserta- Q-W DoG REMEDIES | ¢tely to plan 2 four-vo tion on the Effects on an Anatomy end 150 ithestrations of dogs leads collars, : sernean stripping combs, dot hoaxes, ee Mailed ree Which Contact with a Should-have- Q-w LABORATORIES been - beforehand - cleaned -off-superim- | Dept. 19 Bound k. Jersey | posed-with-ice-pavement Incurs. BB. (WHROGP MALLENOEOK GRERTORD COMPARY, MEW YORK A BORED WALK comicbooks.com