Life, 1926-07-08 · page 13 of 41
Life — July 8, 1926 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humor pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **"Just Between Us Girls"** is a cartoon featuring two young women in fashionable 1920s attire (cloche hats, modern dress). The accompanying text presents a breathless account of a social outing—attending a dance revue and nightclub with a couple named Tom and Mr. Rivers. The joke relies on exaggerated, breathless enthusiasm ("HYSTERICAL," "SCREAMING") about mundane social activities, satirizing how young women of the era gossiped and dramatized their social lives. The accompanying sections—"Front-Page Stuff," "Lament of a Long-Haired Lady," and "Definitions"—continue in this vein of gentle satire about contemporary manners, social pretension, and period concerns. "A Suburbanite's Dream" below depicts surreal, fantastical garden growth, parodying seed-catalog fantasies.
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1 L Lament of a Long-Haired Lady Wt ain’t engaged no more. Last Sat’day we Went down to Coney. We went bathin’. Gee! The waves was swell! I jumped ‘em all an’ yelled like drownin’ When Jim’d duck me. He was clownin’ All the time. He said he was a mur-man! I Just laughed at him until I thought I'd die! Gee! It was swell! We ain’t engaged no more. Gee! It was grand To race each other all along the sand. The sun was swell! My hair dried an’ T left it streamin’ An’ Jim'd stroke it—said ‘twas gleamin’ Yellow gold. The pins was in his pocket. Gee! He gave me back a hairpin that was black. Us girls can’t tell. Y'see We ain't engaged no more. Catherine Atkinson Miller. Front-Page Stuff HE: And what do you think of Niagara Falls, darling? He (a tabloid newspaper headline-writer) : drip! Some A SUBURBANITE’S DREAM THE NIGHT AFTER READING A SEED CATALOGUE Le [SUST BETWEEN US CIRLE | “Tom called on me last night, my dear, and I've been POSITIVELY hysterical ever sinee—ACTUALLY he’s the MOST amusing man you've ever scen—I mean he’s so EXCRUCIATINGL Y funny that you simply get HYSTERICAL becau: "s so perfectly SCREAM- ING—I mean I HONESTLY think he is! You see, there was this Mr. and Mrs. Rivers that Mother had to dinner and after we'd played a couple of rubbers they ASKED Tom and I if we'd like to go with them to a Revue and, my dear, Tom said, ‘Secing as it’s the Rivers I s’pose we ought to STI M along,’ and ACTUALLY, my dear, I NEARLY dicd—I mean I HONESTLY had hysterics, it v my dear, you can’t IMAGINE wh: , WARD because we went to the Yellow Unicorn and Mr. Rivers had a FLASK, my dear, and was VERY generous and I got QUIT nd going HOME Tom was FRIGHTFULL ctionate and called me his IDEAL and that sort of thing and I mean I was SIMPLY hysterical about the whole thing, my dear— I mean I ACTUALLY was! Because TOM is so perfectly SCREAMING, my dear, and I mean I think he’s the FUNNIEST man in the world when he’s TIGHT. Well, my dear, 1 HONESTLY th ught I'd never SURVIVE because it was the MOST party you can IMAGINE, my dear, I mean it AC ALLY was !"” Lloyd Mayer. Definitions AX optimist is a bankrupt who lists among his assets the various manuscripts he has submitted in first- novel, scenario, short-story and limerick contests, the tickets he holds in a Canadian lottery, several million of the German marks that cost him several cents, one lot somewhere in Florida and six dollars in cash—Confed- erate money. A pessimist is any creditor of the above. Bill Sykes. MPATIENTLY the American people await the day when the Woolworth stores hold their five-and-ten- centennial celebration. KANSAS man has discovered how to find a needle in a haystack. He sat on the stack. comicbooks.com