Life, 1925-12-25 · page 8 of 37
Life — December 25, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a satirical cartoon titled "POSSIBLY" depicting a domestic scene. A man in formal attire questions a woman about her daughter's early return from school, with the caption: "Is your daughter home from school for the holidays? I think so. One of the servants said she thought she saw her day before yesterday." The joke mocks wealthy households where parents are so distant from their children that they rely on servants to confirm their whereabouts—the daughter has been home for days without the parents noticing. This satirizes the disconnection and neglect common in affluent families who delegate childcare entirely to staff. The surrounding text discusses various contemporary issues: aviation safety, prohibition enforcement, and college athletes' professionalism, reflecting 1920s American concerns.
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ARMY officers say that enemy avi- ators, soaring over New York, could wreck its transit system. The question is, would the straphangers know the difference? = In the recent severe storm that swept the East we almost lost our other air- plane. aL The United-Committee for Prohibition Enforcement has appealed to the Pope to support the Volstead cause. Pos- sibly, if a Kleagle were sent to Rome, His Holiness might even be persuaded to join the Ku Klux Klan. aL A few weeks ago we mentioned that the French Ministry had been over- thrown, but we weren't sure which one it was. Reprinted by request. LL January, 1926, has been designated as National Laugh Month. Can it be that POSSIBLY “IS YOUR DAUGHTER HOME FROM SCHOOL FOR THE HOLIDAYS?” “I THINK SO. ONE OF THE SERVANTS SAID SHE THOUGHT SHE SAW HER DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY.” there is a connection between this and the statement of the Methodist Boar of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals that the beginning of the year will see a tremendous stiffening in the enforcement of the Volstead law? LL Wynant Hussar, former captain of the Harvard Varsity football team, has gone to Africa to capture a white rhinoceros. Anything to beat Yale! LL If professionalism claims many more of our college athletes, what will some of the big banks and trust companies do for vice- presidents ? -L Henry G. Grancer, Princeton,'93, has deposited $10 in a Colombia bank, to remain at cumulative interest for 1,000 years, at the end of which time it will be worth — $5,574,523,952,824,320. Which means, our own Board of Estimate assures us, that at the end of 1,000 years Mr. Grancer will be able to entertain Miss Peccy Joyce in a New York night club. LL Thousands of whirling dervishes have been thrown out of employ- ment in Turkey—victims, we presume, of the civilizing inf ence of the Charleston. L The Turks, by adopting our cal- endar, will jump from the year 1342 to 1926, and a big time is expected in Constantinople when they celebrate 584 New Year's Eves in one. Last week we Naeiptea to an- nounce, in a Lire Line, that young Bos La Fottette was a chip of the old bloc. At the last minute, an eagle-eyed printer changed it to “block,” thereby ruining the point of the wheeze. if any. Hereafter, we must insist that the printers make no changes in our jokes unless they can think up something funnier, which they usually can. comicbooks.com