Life, 1925-06-25 · page 9 of 37
Life — June 25, 1925 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate pieces of humor: 1. **"The Life of the Party"** (top sketch): Shows adults gathered indoors while a child performs a headstand outside—visual satire on how children often entertain themselves more genuinely than adult social gatherings. 2. **"If Ilium Had Had a Booster"**: A humorous "confidential bulletin" from Troy's Chamber of Commerce, satirizing modern booster clubs and civic promotion by imagining ancient Troy with such contemporary promotional tactics. 3. **"Unavoidably Postponed"**: A domestic joke about a wife's delayed errand—the tailor's delivery took two weeks, preventing her from getting a sports roadster. 4. **"One of the Zero Jobs"**: A cartoon about night watchmen, with the caption indicating tedious, purposeless work (likely six months of inactivity). 5. **"Mrs. Pops Diary"**: A dated social commentary entry about Cambridge alumni and domestic life.
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If Ilium Had Had a Booster Confidential Bulletin from the Chamber of Commerce, City of Troy ‘O MEMBERS: The Committee on Extra-Mural Activi- ties has investigated a large wooden horse which can be scen from the walls near the West Thirty-eighth Street Gate. Members are warned to have nothing to do with this horse and will do so at their own risk. While the horse is outside the city the Committee hopes to bring it to the attention of the commissioners of Troy County and ask them to arrange for its removal. As soon as matters arising from the presence of certain Greeks are disposed of the Committee on the Annual Picnic will have something to report. McCready Huston. Unavoidably Postponed ‘I HEAR that your wife has taken up golf.” “Well, she intended to, but the tailor was two weeks late with her knickers and I couldn't get delivery on a sports roadster for her. She expects to start in about two weeks.” THE LIFE OF THE PARTY ONE OF THE ZERO JOBS NIGHT WATCHMAN IN THE LAND OF SIX MONTHS’ NIGHT Nes Lops Diarr Fa) June My husband, poor wretch, not home yet from his class reunion at Cambridge, and forasmuch 18th a5 T have been receiving telegrams from a differ- ent town eve! y since the alumni mecting, I did wire him this morning, Attend Old 1910's Fifteenth and See The World! But I believe him to be on Hy Binder’s yacht with some of his cronies, and I do pray that he will not essay getting on or off it whilst in the sublimated condition often superinduced by academic reminiscence, -+-To Marge Boothby’s for a luncheon of eggs Aurore, cold ham and a fine salad of greens, and Marge told how the Fairfields’ boy, who is pronounced mentally deficient, had quoth, Life is funny—you get up in the morning and you go to bed at night, and you get up in the morning again, and go to bed at night, and you get up in the morning again, etc, until his mother forced him to cease, but Lord! there was nothing moronic in that piece of (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com