Life, 1924-11-27 · page 33 of 37
Life — November 27, 1924 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and light humor** rather than political satire. The main content is a humorous character sketch of "Mr. Splicks," a parody of obsessive travel planners. The joke: Splicks has spent eight months yearly *planning* trips using timetables and schedules—yet rarely actually travels. He's collected 147 pounds of pamphlets for one trip to Walla Walla and has been planning a 1908 world tour still unfinished by the article's time. The satire gently mocks people who become so consumed with organizing leisure that they never experience it. The surrounding advertisements promote Marmola weight-loss tablets, personal stationery, and other products typical of 1920s-era magazines. The small humor piece "Quite a Scare" jokes that when the German Zeppelin ZR-3 arrived in America, Quakertown residents hid in cellars—reflecting post-WWI anxiety about German aircraft, though the tone is dismissive of such fears as silly overreaction.
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Mooey Feturned if you are not more Write name and address nerene sicily. ao AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY is ferux Wriee us today for our agent's proposition. 7089 Main Street ELITE STATIONERY COMPANY ethport, Pa. KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIPE kes out of the smoke 19% Nicotin, 85% Pyridin, Ammoniac. $5.90. Literature free. Kotler & Go, te, $94 M40 St, Gattenberg, West New York, Md. Quite a Scare Tue author of the report that a letter carrier was arrested in Phila- delphia recently, suspected of being a Confederate spy, is at work again. He asserts that when the Zeppelin ZR-3 arrived in this country, half the population of Quakertown took to their cellars. “Great heavens! The baby swal- lowed a hairpin.” “Well, what of it? A hairpin is of no use to anybody nowadays.” Wuicu will eventually be the higher —buildings or rents? Introducing Mr. Splicks Lapies and Gentlemen, this is to introduce Mr. Spleven S. Splicks, the world-famous collector and fireside globe-trotter. Mr. Splicks enjoys the distinction of possessing the greatest collection of railroad and steamship timetables and schedules in the world. Mr. Splicks first conceived the idea of this unusual collection back in 1898, when he wanted to go from his home in Nutley, New Jersey, to Coney Island on a ‘Saturday afternoon. He found the timetables and data of such con- suming interest that he completely for- got the trip and never ventured beyond the pages of an attractive folder on Steeplechase Park. Since that day, Mr. Splicks, in actual time consumed, has spent eight months and thirteen days out of every year in planning various trips and ex- cursions. Two portable built upon the library of his sumptuous home in Nutley hold the well- thumbed and dog-eared pamphlets which he has perused and filed, Mr. Splicks used one hundred and forty- seven pounds of timetables and folders alone in planning one little jaunt to Walla Walla, Washington. A_ trip around the world, first planned in 1908, has to date enabled Mr. licks to fill entire room, 20x18 fect, with schedules and other data. He has now mapped out the itinerary as far as Bangor, Maine, and, unless he meets with unexpected obstacles, hopes to reach the other side of the Atlantic by 1935. Mr. Splicks was born and brought up in Nutley, New Jersey. In Sep- tember, 1905, he spent two days in New York City on a business mission. Otherwise, he is a quiet, home-loving man, who seldom ventures beyond his own doorstep. Mrs. Splicks once visited her sister in Newark. extensions now one The Newsdealer: Now's THE TIME 1 CERTAINLY FEEL SORRY I NEVER LEARNED TO READ, —Buen Humor (Madrid). 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