Life, 1925-06-11 · page 14 of 36
Life — June 11, 1925 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**Top cartoon** depicts a burglar caught in a bedroom. The caption satirizes an "up-to-date prowler" who announces himself before stealing—a humorous inversion of traditional burglary stealth. **"A Man Is Getting Old"** section uses a checklist format to mock aging: playing golf repeatedly, listening to baseball instead of driving, joining gym classes. The humor lies in recognizing these as stereotypical "old man" behaviors. **Bottom cartoon** shows a customs dock scene where officials question an arriving passenger about descended signers of the Declaration of Independence. The man admits smuggling them back into America. This satirizes American reverence for Revolutionary ancestors and perhaps critiques the absurdity of worshipping historical figures as contraband. The page demonstrates early 20th-century satirical humor targeting everyday masculine life and American nationalism.
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Up-to-Date Prowler (indignantly): BURGLAR! WHERE D'VA GET THAT BURGLAR sTurF? I'M ON’ ONE O° THESE BEDROOM FARCE JURORS, OUT GETTIN’ EXPERIENCE! A Man Is Getting Old— HEN he reads the news items be- fore the sporting section. When he lays his car up for the winter. When he invariably plays golf with the same foursome. When he listens to college baseball over the radio instead of motoring to the game. When he joins a gym class for his figure. When his children tell him so. AT THE CUSTOMS DOCK Letters of a Modern Father Y pear Son: It is strange that you should try to put my cye out about your trip to Europe. You insult my intelligence by all that stuff you wrote about broaden. ing your horizon. After all, I am c forty-four and it isn't such a | time since I was trying to get away with a check from my father for just such a trip. I am enclosing five times as mucin as my father gave me in 1902. That ought to get you over and back and let you stay half as 1 Have a good time but don’t write me any more of that bunk about why you ought to g Your Arrectionate Faturn, McC. I The Jazzteria “TLL tell you what let’s do, Janet Let's go out and get a bite to eat.” “Not to-night, Jimmi in the mood for dancing.” I don't ice! AYBE all the trouble is duc to the fact that God has an inferiority complex. “t ASKED HIM IF HE THOUGHT A DESCENDANT OF A SIGNER AND A DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION WOULD STOOP TO SUCH A THING.” “AND DID YOU GET AWAY WiTH 17?” “sure!” comicbooks.com