Life, 1925-10-08 · page 8 of 46
Life — October 8, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains miscellaneous short humor items and a cartoon illustration. The main cartoon shows two children and a dog in the rain. One child says "I don't feel no rain, Oscar," and the other responds "An' so wonder! Ya got ya hand turned wrong." The joke appears to be a dialect-based gag about the child holding an umbrella incorrectly (turned inside-out or backwards), which explains why neither child feels protected from the rain. The humor relies on working-class or immigrant speech patterns ("don't feel no," "An' so wonder"). The surrounding "Life Lines" section contains brief satirical commentary on contemporary 1910s-1920s topics: World Series batteries, National Fire Prevention Week, taxi robberies in Chicago, French fashion trends, and political figures like General Smedley Butler. The items mock various aspects of American life and current events through brief, caustic observations.
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BATTERI 2S for the opening game of the World's Series will be fur- nished by your local radio dealer. aL After New York has settled its “Say It with Shovels” campaign, we sug- gest that the slogan be turned over to the owners and workers in the Penn- sylvania coal fields. aL While celebrating National Fire Pre- vention Week, it is hoped the Ameri- can people will not forget that it was the anthracite producers who originated the idea. JL General MEDLEY BUTLER returns to the Marines on January Ist, but he won't have much to tell them. ne An eightecn-year-old Chicago girl has held up and robbed fifty-six taxi drivers within the past year, and the Skeptics’ Society has decided to accept this as “1 DON'T FEEL NO RAIN, OSCAR.” “AN’ NO WONDER! YA GOT YA HAND TU! ED WRONG.” sufficient proof that there is really nothing in the old adage about “honor among thieves.” JL Colleges have reopened, but studying does not begin until after the last big game, L The railroads of the country face a prosperous autumn—thanks to, the Notre Dame football team. JL French hairdressers announce that the bobbed head is going out, which is no news to the American father, whose daughter has been borrowing his latch- key every night now for years. A new kind of phonograph has a record which runs for forty minutes. Apparently there is no way of keeping this ingenious device out of the hands of your neighbors. a Published reports of income taxes show that Witaur Grenn Votiva of Zion City pays $15,100. No wonder the world is flat. LL “No one,” says Major-General Sir Freverick Maurice, “has ever yet succeeded in building a battleship in sceret.” Evidently Sir Frederick hasn't been reading the recent dispatches from Japan in the Hearst newspapers. aL A policewoman in Washington, D. C., has decreed that the saxophone is im- moral, So's your old mandolin, Those Popularity Contests IRST REPORTER: the big wedding to-day? Seconn Reporter: Miss Yonkers, the daughter of the Alfalfa King, married Mr. Toledo, son of Queen Apricot and brother of Miss Vassar. They were attended by the Apple Princess and King Cotton. What was HHYSICIAN’S — version—“Let me but write the prescriptions of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” comicbooks.com