Life, 1925-09-17 · page 25 of 36
Life — September 17, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct elements: **Top cartoon**: A social satire about storytelling. A man wants to share a "cute story," but the woman refuses, claiming she's easily shocked "this season." The joke mocks social propriety and suggests women's pretended delicacy is a passing fashion—implying hypocrisy about what constitutes acceptable conversation. **Middle cartoon**: "The Voice of the People, 1950" depicts a crowded assembly of identical figures at microphones, all seemingly speaking simultaneously. This satirizes mass democracy or public opinion as cacophonous noise—everyone talking but no one listening or being heard distinctly. **Right column**: Three brief humorous poems/quips about meeting ("When Greek meets Greek"), a man with both trade and profession (a joke about him switching jobs based on finances), and a dig at film actresses' multiple marriages. The page promotes gift books bundled with practical items (puzzles, pencils, records), emphasizing these as consumer pleasures for "simple-minded" readers.
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He: Schuster as there is in the arrival of an unexpected express package or box of flowers. A material phase has crept into their publications which is thoroughly delightful to a childish, simple-minded soul like me. In other s, every customer gets a present hich in some manner com- plements the text. There was the set of pasteboard chips and the blank I. O. U.'s with “Webster's Poker Book”; there were the two tiny phonograph records with “Barber Shop Bal- lads”; there were the nice, soft pencils with all the crossword puzzle books, and now comes “The Tangram Book,” by F. Gregory Hartswick, which has an envelope full of bright- colored squares to be cut out and fashioned into figures illustrative of the adventures of the beautiful princess in I HEARD SUCH A CUTE STORY I'D LIKE TO SPRING, She: BETTER NOT—YOU MAVE NO IDEA HOW EASILY SHOCKED I AM THIS SEASON. Triangle Land. There is also “The Cross Word Puzzle Manual,” which provides you with diagrams for rolling your own, as well as a lovely green ruler, another nice pencil and a dic- tionary of words of assorted lengths. Baird Leonard. THE HOUSE wat _4 COME TO ORDER AND WE WAL HEAR FROM THE GENTLEMAN FROM THE VOICE OF THE ProPLE, 1950 Famous Conferences HEN Greek meets Greek. When the cat's away, When two strong men stand face to face. When good fellows get together. When other lips and other hearts their tales of love shall tell. When the roll is called up yonder. E. J. K. The Old Standby “TOM says he has both a trade and a_ profession. Which does he follow?” “Whenever his money gives out he goes back to his trade.” ITY the poor film star— she never knows where her next husband is coming from, comicbooks.com