Life, 1926-04-29 · page 17 of 42
Life — April 29, 1926 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate humor pieces: 1. **"Loaf Sugar: A Protest"** - A satirical article about loaf sugar's social pretensions. The text complains that loaf sugar is unnecessarily fancy and difficult to use compared to granulated sugar, mocking the social status some attach to it. 2. **"Home Again, Thank God"** (bottom cartoon) - Depicts a returning traveler thanking God for the impulse that brought him home. The cartoon suggests relief at escaping foreign travel complications. 3. **"Can't Live Without It"** and **"Class in Psychology"** - Lighter humor pieces about everyday life and a professor's definition of "personal magnetism." The overall tone is genteel American satire mocking social pretensions and travel misadventures, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's humor.
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- LIFE - Loaf Sugar: A Protest RISE in wrathful protest against the setting the wrong kind in front of cruel and sensele nny of you and th ckly disappearing lump—or, more elegantly, loaf The really discouraging part of sugar it is that there is sort of Tam convinced that its inventor was social prestige attached to ut cither a diabetic misanthrope who de-— s hostess Md think lighted in human sufferi dinary and discom a guest the fort, or else a thwar ht forward, ¢ sought to wreak some territ granulated sugar And therein lies the low Machia- vellian cui ance upon mankind. to which lump r can he put where the — foisted There are only two uses of the marplot who He knew per ple granulated variety does not far 1 10 sane pers. better serve one’s purpose—first, the — wot <e it s it. were t tray horses by mo feeding of sugar tion-picture ingenues: and secondly the conversion of the cubes into di when one wishes to shake meal, be borne more easily we Not even in’ emer cies can Jump in small lum) sugar be employed: 3 ordinary s ir. One can't rinkle stitute on grape-fruit. And, placed in a cold drink, like lemonade or iced tea, it merely petrifies, and resists all effo: to disintegrate it. It will not even melt And te scatter Jum of strawberries, instance, an act of weak mindedness You've simply got to havea bowl of the usual sugar on hand anyway. And people are always ¢ you the wr bowl In when you a for sugar, waiters make a practice o shape and texture ry human thought quarter or teari cube until they The lump of gar is with a hamm misty, it is not convenient te carry with one when one out te tea Willard Huntington Wright HOME AGAIN, THANK GOD!" KETURNED TRAVELER OBEYED THAT IMPULSE Can't Live Without It psest Planging McC. H. Class in Psychology ROFESSOR Fre real-est him te th with comicbooks.com