Life, 1926-09-16 · page 10 of 40
Life — September 16, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon depicts a domestic scene where a man holds a woman's hands while kissing her, with the caption: "MOTHER," said little Jack, "will you hold Julie's hands while I kiss her good night?" The satire plays on gender role expectations. The joke inverts the typical "rougher sex" stereotype—rather than men being physically aggressive or forward in romance, here a young man needs his mother's assistance to manage a woman's hands during a kiss, suggesting he's timid or awkward. The humor relies on the absurdity of requiring a chaperone's help for such a simple romantic gesture, mocking both Victorian propriety and masculine inadequacy. The cartoon suggests anxieties about changing courtship norms in the 1920s.
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Life Six Ways Not to Begin a Joke 1 “THE funniest thing about this one is that it’s * actually true.” 2. “I know you'd just scream your head off at this one if I could only tell it in dialect. It isn’t at all funny otherwise.” 3. “You won't get the point of this one unless 3 been to Peoria, Illinois, and seen the fellow that t: up the collection in the Methodist Church there.” 4. “Al Jolson told this one. He’s got « him, that boy. It ain’t so much what he say 5. “IT heard this one in the washroom on a train going to Philly. Perhaps it ain’t just the sort I oughta spring in mixed company.” 6. “An Irishman told this Jewish joke at a Jewish dinner. They tell me it didn’t go over very ‘ 8.8 The Rougher Sex “NAOTHER,” said little Jack, “will you hold Julie’s . hands while I kiss her good night?” Musical Genius: CONGRATULATE ME, OLD MAN. Friend: wuat ror? Musical Genius: ve JUST COMPLETED MY FIRST UNFINISHED SYMPHONY, é . Life. Lines HE last war was fought to end all wars; the next one will be fought to end all debts. General Persur al Focu recently, prob- ably for a ion of the good old days when both were fighting on the same side. Says Krisunamurti, the “new Messiah” of the The- osophists: “I look with favor upon the institution of marriage, but it is not for me.” Precisely the attitude of many of our lawgivers regarding Prohibition. aL The National Industrial Conference Board reveals the interesting fact that the cost of living has decreased 8.4 per cent. since last November. “It just goes to show,” said the grocer to the butcher, “that you can’t believe everything you sce in the papers.” iL Tex Rickarp and the Philadelphia have come to blows over il of the imminent ring are probably tr. Mpsey and Tun every battle. good example. From now on, Philadelphia’s big show will have to be known as the Texquicentennial. SENSATIONAL lady's bedroom rug, hand-worked —N Yor ald Trivune. Going out of business? aL During the last fiscal year Amer- icans drank enough “pop” to float a fleet of battleships, reports — the American Association of Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages. “At last,” retorts the Hardened Sinner always takes his straight, “they've found a use for the stuff.” LL “Mr. and Mrs, Arthur W. Brady and sons Arthur Jr. and George left yester- day for New York, where they remain abroad for a month.” —Anderson (Ind.) Hera. d= Harlem, Brooklyn, ich Village and other foreign localities. who LL Exports of paper and pulp from Canada during the first six months of 1926 amounted to $82,866,995. We don’t know much about the qual- ity of the paper, but the pulp was no tastier than the stuff we make right in our own homes, comicbooks.com