Life, 1926-09-09 · page 11 of 40
Life — September 9, 1926 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** "The Delicatessen Man's Daughter Cuts Her Wedding Cake" depicts a bride and groom at their wedding surrounded by well-dressed guests. The joke plays on class mobility—the title suggests the bride is marrying "up" from her father's working-class background as a delicatessen owner. **Left Column Article:** "If the One-Hundred-Percent American Were Caught by the Canine World" satirizes xenophobic "100% American" rhetoric popular in the 1920s. The piece argues that pure-bred dog registries would reject mongrels similarly to how such Americans rejected immigrants, using dog breeds (Russian wolfhounds, Japanese spaniels, etc.) as a metaphor for immigrant groups. **Right Column:** Brief comic dialogues on modern urban life—apartment hunting difficulties and affordable shoe prices—reflect post-WWI American consumer culture.
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ec Vay WILL why Ly) Yj YLT Vi THE DELICATESSEN MAN’S DAUGHTER CUTS HER WEDDING CAKE If the One-Hundred-Per- Cent. American Spirit Were Caught by the Canine World A XD my thought is that we gotta wake up to conditions as they exist in this country to-day! And then we gotta act! What I mean is, this country’s going to the dogs—the alien dogs. There’s no two ways about it. Just to. show you something, I'll give you some figures and let you figure it out for yourself. Listen! Out of 7,- 000,000 dogs in this country, over 3314 per cent., or 2,333,333 and a fraction, are nothing but Ger- man dachshunds, French poodles, Russian wolf-hounds, English set- ters, Japanese spaniels, Pekinese, Pome ns, Great Danes, and Mexican hairless dogs. All these foreigners have swarmed onto our shores and they don’t wanna be assimilated. No, sir, they won't respect our institutions. They come over here and show their tecth if you tell them to get back where they came from, ‘They're a real menace, I’m telling yo And another thing: remembe these aliens breed fast. In a few years, if we aren't careful, they'll She: outnumber _ us. we stand then? Yes, sir! It’s And where will aLways HAVE TO Go AND sPolL F high time we one-hundred-per-cent. American mongrels showed thes nse ¢ for- cigners where to get off at Tupper Greenxald. “Eventually—Why Not Now?” NOLDSTEIN is tearing down his new house.” ‘d Tike a Not that beautiful new house on the corner lot!" “That's the one.” ‘hy, what's the trouble?” ne land is too valuable to live on, Guess what's going up there.” “A Alling station? Lay (in drug store): 1 present for my husband. Cur Sorry, madam, but you'll have to have a prescription. Su RPASSING in daring the one- piece bathing suit is the one- piece graphophone, in vogue since , tet? “A i sines: >" “Valencia” became the rage. come block? Apartment house?” “Hotel? “T'll give up. “A billboard.” Theatre?” What is?” Bill Sykes. Not Enough M.D.’s HERE is one peril in the building boom which the oper- ators have overlooked: if they put up many more apartment houses, they may run out of doc- tors for the first floors. : You can have them nt cents, : Are there any strings to this offer? He: swerTHEART, DO You LOVE ME? OM, YOU MEN MAKE ME TIRED. YOU YTHING BY ASKING PERSONAL QUESTIONS. comicbooks.com