Life, 1925-02-12 · page 6 of 36
Life — February 12, 1925 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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The cartoon depicts a social critique through a conversation between a working-class man and a fashionably-dressed woman. The caption reveals the joke: she demands he "brace up" and think of his debt to society, while he retorts that he owes society nothing—asking what she thinks he's been doing by "playin' bridge?" This satirizes class hypocrisy and gender dynamics of the 1920s: the wealthy woman lectures about civic duty while engaging in leisure activities (bridge), while the working man resents being shamed about financial obligations. The surrounding "Life Lines" column contains brief topical commentary on politics, military affairs, and social absurdities of 1928, typical of the magazine's satirical format.
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latest bullet-proof shirt will stop a shot fired at five paces, re- cent tests have proved. The final test will be made when it is sent to the laundry. JL from Washington announce that Everett Sanpers, the new secre tary to President Cooipce, was born in log cabin. This is opening the 1928 campaign a bit early aL The current Army Appropriations Bill carries an appropriation of $15,000 to ‘expended by the Secretary of War in erecting a fitting marking of the Reports burial place at Bardstown, Ky., of Lieu- tenant Joun Fitcn, soldier and in- ventor.” JouN Fitcn died in 1798. The postal employees who were refused a living wage because of the need for economy will no doubt be pleased to know that some of the money they do not get is to be expended in such a use- ful cause. Also—it’s a good thing for the memory of Joun Frren that Kentucky voted Republican in the last election. Bricklayers and jazz band players now yet fifteen dollars a day, and the brick- Kindly Woman: you suoutn BRACE UP, MY MAN; THINK OF WHAT YOU OWF TO SOCIETY. Derelict: 1 poN'T OWE SOCIETY NOTH WHAT bo you BRIDGE? THINK 1 BEEN layers would be worth it if they would throw the bricks at the jazz band play- ers. Add e, Wholesome Sports: Stand. ing trial on bootleg charges in New Jersey LL Tt seems that every time they send a rich bootlegger to jail he meets himseli coming out again. LL A Texas woman who was married by telephone has just obtained a divorce We hope the operator didn’t forget to say, “Excuse it, please.” aL lately considered, and favorably, a resolution to permit cer- tain officers of the Marine Corps to ac- cept decorations from the Government of Haiti for the splendid work that they have done (with the help of God, of course) in pacifying that island. We wonder whether the German Govern- ment is finding it difficult to force Iron Crosses on those gallant poilus who have spent four weary years policing the Ruhr. Congress has The Allies would like to know what they will get out of Germany, and the Germans would like to know when they will get out The former Empress Z1ta is said to have ambitions to place her son on the throne of Hungary. The first thing to do is to find the throne. -L Some surprise is expressed that a scat on the New York Stock Exchange sold recently for $101,000. It must have heen on the fifty-yard line. LL Health Commissioner Froxczak, of Buffalo, estimates the rat population of that city at 560,000—which is just enough to fill all the horizontal squares labeled “rodent.” There is cause feature in the report of Lirr’s chief statistician which dis- closes that in the first six weeks 1925 the total output of crossword puzzle jokes dropped off more than thirty-five per cent. comicbooks.com