Life, 1925-08-13 · page 28 of 36
Life — August 13, 1925 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains miscellaneous humor pieces and advertisements rather than a unified political cartoon. The jokes reflect 1920s domestic life and social attitudes: **"Tune to the Right"** satirizes women's mechanical incompetence—a wife requests a piano string pre-tuned because her husband cannot tune it himself, then specifies "the G on the right side" as if pianos have directional orientation. **"Backsliding"** jokes about the Joe Lark family living within their means—presented as an embarrassing regression, implying that overspending was normal or socially expected. **"On the Way Back"** (French cartoon) appears to reference a traffic accident with dark humor about hitting someone. **"The Vamp from Savannah"** uses period slang ("vamp," "coon-singers") to joke about a female tax collector being harsh. The page's overall tone reflects 1920s gender stereotypes, consumerism anxiety, and casual racism typical of the era. The Brooks Brothers advertisement for "Yachting Clothes" targets wealthy readers.
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Tune to the Right The following is an order mailed to a Prominent piano company: “Dear Sir: “Please send me by mail a string for my piano, Have the string tuned to G, before you send it, as my husband can put it in, but he can’t tune it. Mrs, X. “P. S.—It’s the G on the right side of the piano.”—Science and Invention, Backsliding “Th’ Joe Lark family, that suddenly dropped out o’ sight a few weeks ago, wuz found t'day livin’ within Joe's in- come. ON THE WAY BACK , WE'RE ON THE RIGHT ROAD AFTER ALL—THERE’S THE MAN WE RAN OVER THIS MORNIN: —Le Rire (Paris). —Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News. “yes The Inspired Compositor Ohio paper—“The ladies of the Library By Requess The golfer nonchalantly stepped up to the tee and swung one of those carelessly careful drives. The ball sailed straight down the fair- way, leaped gaily across the green and dived into the hole like a prairie dog. “What have you suddenly gone crazy about?” inquired the golfer’s wife, who was trying to learn something about the game. “Why, I just made a hole in one!” yelled the golfer as he essayed a double handspring with a wild gleam of delight in his eyes. “Did you?” sweetly said the little woman. “Please do it again, dear. I didn’t see you.”"—Town Life. The Vamp from Savannah We read in a contemporary that a ‘woman income-tax collector has been ap- pointed in the Midlands, She must be the lady the coon-singers keep referring to as Hard-hearted Hannah.—Punch. “Are you related to defendant?” coun- had a social tea at the church parlor Wednesday afternoon. Miss Kitty Black App similes of 1925: guard.—Akron Beacon Journal, purred.”—Boston Transcript, As blasé as a life sel inquired. “Only by bigamy,” the witness replied. —London Daily Express. Live is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United State: Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Patent. Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back numbers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Live ore copyrighted. For wn Rights in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter , London, E, C., England. The foreign trade su plied from Live's London Office, Rolls House, Breams. Buildings, London, E. C. Canadian distributor, ‘The American Now Company, Led 386.388 Sts James Street, AMontresl, Canada No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks frior to the date of issue to be afccted. SLOTHI INGA Gentlemens Furnishing ods, MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET NEW YORK Yachting Clothes BOSTON PALM BEACH NEWPORT TTLE BUILDING PLAZA LOING AUORAIN BUILOING ‘Tamment con. Boristen C Renae 220 Beutwe Avenue Regularly--- HAT’S the way you really ought to read Lire. Regularly—every week. You can’t get the full benefit of the treatment otherwise. We tell you this for your own good. A regular Lire diet is as im- portant as calories. Try it— for ten weeks—and see. COMING: The FEMININE Number (Aug. 27) The Fourth BURLESQUE Number (Sept. 10) 7 LIFE 7 598 Madison Ave. 7 New York, NT Please send me 7 7 Ten Issues, for which 1 enclose One Dollar. By the Year, (Canadian, $5.80; Foreign, $6.60) comicbooks.com