Life, 1926-09-09 · page 30 of 40
Life — September 9, 1926 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief satirical items from newspapers and magazines, mocking contemporary absurdities. Key items include: **Top cartoon**: A father tells his young son he feels "ten years younger" after their beach trip; the child replies he also feels younger—suggesting children possess natural resilience adults have lost. **"Coming—the Fig Leaf!"**: Mocks changing fashion standards, where a "one-piece bathing suit" is now marketed as "conservative"—satirizing how quickly modesty standards shift. **"The Sheik's Answer"**: References the popular "Sheik" films/craze of the 1920s, joking about what luxuries flappers demand in cars beyond basic transportation. **"Paris by Night"**: A French magazine's caption suggests American tourists miss the city's authentic character, seeing only tourist attractions. **Various one-liners**: Mock clergy hierarchies, golfer etiquette, bootleggers, vaudeville acts, and other contemporary social foibles. The page's purpose is satirizing modern life through collected snippets—a common Life magazine format targeting educated readers familiar with current trends and social pretensions.
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Father: wy sove! 1 REL TEN YEARS You GER APTE Bobbie (aged fire): wy aove! so pot, Persistence Ir a fair lady, star of a play which is running interminably on Broad- way, and she was conversing earnestly on the story of her life. She mentioned that she had left school after the fifth grade, and in the prettiest manner pos- sible she deplored this detici of edu- cation, which had cost her, s |, any amount of effort to mend in later life. “L think everybody ought to have a complete — education,” went with charming earnestness, “If possible I think they should even go through high school.” —New Yorker. she on Coming—the Fig Leaf! A womay who has always con- sidered herself far from old- fashioned was recently startled quite severely by an advertise- ment of women's bathing suits in which the fashion writer recommended a “one-piece bath- ing suit for the woman of con- servative taste. —New York Sun, Trade Note “Tur dollar wrist-watch to be going great in Africa, “What of it “Formerly you couldn't sell a ive a watch without throw- na vest.” —Louiscille Courier-Journal. aid You don't realize how easy it is to make money until some one makes some of yours. —Milwaukee Journal. Writ pedestrians it is the sur- vival of the fastest. —Cincinnati Enquirer. —Punch (London), THAT, hy permission, The Sheik'’s Answer (“What do you want in a motor car that 2 4 flivver can't give you Wiar would we We want a littl in a motor car? je flapper Who's too particular by far For tin-car spo rts to trap her. —Chicago Daily News. Consider the Housewrecker “Wrapistaw is a the house,” said the of the demolition co: terrible man around wife of the foreman pany. —New York Herald Tribune. “Paris by Night"’ WHAT THE AMERICAN TOURIST DOES NOT SEE. —Le Petit Bleu (Paris). About Parsons HooLnoy’s essay on “Clergymen": There are three kinds of clergyinen, Bishups, recters and curats, the bishups tell the recters to work, and the curats have to do it. A curat is a thin married man, but when he is a recter he gets fuller and can preach longer sermons and becums a good man.” —Arkansas Churchman, Don't Shout! Aw English golfer has been fined “for using bad language in the presence of other golfers.” That's what he gets for raising his voice above the chorus, —Arkansas Gazette, Lapy bootleggers are becoming a prob- lem in Chicago, perhaps because the cus: tomer's wife wants to know, “Who was that woman?"—Detroit 3 PROUD HUT AnsENT. BAY AND A NEW TRA WAGON. —Smith’s Weekly (Sydney). Already Mopped Two stage hands were discuss- ing vaudeville. I don't like those Apache dancing acts,” said one, “where the guy drags the dame all over the place by the hair of her head.” ‘Oh, T like them acts,” the other replied. “After them the stage is sweep."—Youngstown Telegram, one of so easy to Another Prodigy Panis has a six-year-old ste- nographer. Even most ill- tempered wife could scarcely find an excuse for making a scene if the boss should take her out for dinner.—Buffalo Courier-Express. Mussount says he wishes his voice had the power of thunder and we always supposed he thought it had. —Ohio State Journal. Nurse: It’s a boy! Coxrinaen Gotren: Hurray! A caddy !—Golfers Magazine. comicbooks.com