Life, 1925-10-08 · page 11 of 46
Life — October 8, 1925 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate pieces of humor: **Top Cartoon:** A visual gag about women's fashion. Men discuss a woman's garters, with one saying she's wearing two pairs—one to hold up stockings, the other "to hold up traffic," implying her appearance attracts male attention. **"Bedtime Story":** A satirical tale about an intellectual who fell in love. He planned to buy travel books to educate his bride-to-be about Europe. She rejected his intellectual approach with a note suggesting marriage shouldn't require "optimism" about self-improvement through reading. The story mocks pretentious intellectualism in romance. **"Some Job":** A brief joke about "Blower" working in the naval air service's Explanation Department—apparently involving sheep and wool, though the context remains unclear from this excerpt. The magazine targets 1920s social attitudes about courtship, intellectualism, and gender roles.
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| ch “pri! SHE'S GOT fwo SETS OF GARTERS ON!” “SURE, THEY'RE ALL WEARING EM NOW—ONE PAIR TO HOLD UP THEIR STOCKINGS AND THE O was his favorite expression. He fell in love, became engaged, and in due time made the usual plans for getting married. When he began to figure out what a trip to Europe for the honeymoon and a house in the country as a perma- nent residence would cost him he was hard hit, for not only was he a close thinker—he was also just plain close, A few minutes in a brown study, and he had the thing worked out. “We will not go to Europe,” said he to his bride-to-be, “but we will buy the best travel books that have been written; thus we shall see Europe through sharper eyes than our own. Nor will we NCE upon a time there was a man who prided himself on being a Philosopher. “The potency of thought,” OTHER TO HOLD UP TRAFFIC.” Bedtime Story purchase a house in the country, but rather read all the nature books and all the poems on the country, and so derive an zxsthetic enjoyment such “ISN'T HE WONDERFUL? HE'S RECITING BAA, BLACK SHEEP, HAVE YOU ANY Woot?" COURSE HE DOESN’T SAY ALL OF IT yeT!” as we could never achieve with our limited powers.” The bride-to-be said nothing, but on the morning set for the wedding the “BAA or Philosopher received a note in which she had written: “Dear Love, I am reading all the books and poems on marriage, written by all the brightest minds, thus mak- ing it absolutely unnecessary for me to marry you to-day or at any other time. I hope you won't be disappointed, but if you are I can give you the names of several good books on optimism.” Leonard L, Hess. Some Job “PRLOWER is in the naval air service, isn't he?” “Yes; he’s Chief of the Expla- nation Department.” comicbooks.com