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Life — January 21, 1926 — page 29: Life, 1926-01-21

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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one satirical piece. The main content is "From the Rear Seat," a satirical column mocking backseat drivers—specifically nagging wives. The piece depicts a woman (identified as "May" in dialogue) constantly criticizing her husband's driving with contradictory instructions ("turn left"/"turn right"), snide comments about his fidelity, and complaints about modern life (one-way streets, divorce scandals in newspapers). The humor culminates in a crash ("CRASH!"), after which she blames him for being "fidgety." The satire targets the stereotype of the overbearing, gossipy wife whose endless complaints and impossible demands drive her husband to distraction—a common trope in 1920s-30s humor. The column ends with a non-sequitur joke about how the loss of conversation arts led to the Charleston dance craze. The page also includes advertisements for tree surgery services and razor blade products, typical of Life magazine's mixed editorial-advertising format.

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LIFE An oak on the U. S. Capitol grounds in Washington. Perfect healing of new ark over Davey cement filing Davey Tree Surgeons live and work in your vicinity Nearly 600 Davey Tree Surgeons are constantly at work saving the trees of more than 10,000 clients a year between Boston and Kansas City, and Canada to the Gulf. Some of them live near you and are quick- ly and easily available. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., INC. 423 City Bank Building Kent, Ohio Branch offices with telephone connec- tions as follows: New York, Albany, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- ington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indian- apolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Montreal. Attach this coupon to your letterhead and mail today JOHN DAVEY Father of Tree Surgery THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., INC. 423 City Bank Bidg., Kent, Ohio Gentlemen: Without cost or obligation on my part, please have your local representa- tive examine my trees and advise me as to their condition and needs. | From the Rear Seat Jimaie, dear, if you'll just drop Mrs and myself off at Griggs’s Notion Shoppe—I think it's so quaint and fascinating calling these little stores oppes,” don’t you, May, dear ?—why, you can go down to the club and spend the rest of the after noon with Lacy and the other boys Only, please be back in half anh to pick us up. Yes, keep right ing the way you are; I'll tell you we get there, although you can't pos sibly miss it; it's a straight line. s I was saying about these little “Shoppes,” May—oh, Jimmie, you should have turned to the left there— well, I'm sure I don't know why you couldn't—well, the p Stevenson m driv when ice can't expect me to remember all the one-way streets —what do they have traffic officers for, anyway ?—take the next one, then, and drive around the block—as I was say- ing, May— what are you turning here I never said any such May, did I ever say such a thing ?—I said distinctly to turn to the right, not the left—I guess I ought to know better than you do where Griggs's Notion Shoppe is, unless, of course, you've been in there buying things for other women, which wouldn't surprise me in the least. Isn't it terrible, May, whenever you pick up the papers you read about divorces and and I don't know what— Well, I'll tell you where to turn! What street was that we just passed? Maple? Why, that's where we should have turned! Well, my gracious, how was / to know it was Maple Street —I'm not a trolley conductor, am 1? Well, the only thing you can do now is to edge ahead of this car and get around and cut through—oh, no, not now—slow up—(CRASH!) Good heavens! I'll er be able to make a driver out of th: He's so fidgety! separations T. B. On with the— Tue art of letter writing went out with the advent of the typewriter The art of went out with the advent of the telephone. The art of reading went out with the advent of the motion picture There remained the art of listening Then came the radio. After that people gave up even trying to hear themselves think. Hence the Charleston. conversation Moncouta, declares Roy Chapman has been arid since late Paleozoic times—about 20, 000,000 years a f at, as. the New Yorker d on finding his favorite resort had been padlocked, seems like yesterday, Andrews, ntinuowsly “Strop a New Blade and it will Change Your Whole Idea of Shaving,” said Gordon. 1 my blades and I get pretty good Get your Twi teed for 10 years ld on a make-good basis Send for this unique Home for Old Blades TWINPLEX SALES CO. 1725 Locust St., St. Louis a York Mow tropper FOR SMOOTHER SHAVES comicbooks.com