Life, 1926-10-14 · page 9 of 44
Life — October 14, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humor pieces rather than political cartoons. The main cartoon (top left) shows a mayor returning from holiday discovering his gift—a silver beverage container—has arrived, with appreciative verses by G.S. Chappell praising the sender's generosity. Below, "The Automobile Salesman Goes Crazy" is a humorous ad-style piece mocking over-the-top sales pitches, using exaggerated claims about a vehicle's capabilities (Mount Everest climbing, desert crossing) to satirize aggressive 1920s advertising language. The bottom cartoon depicts a social comedy about wealth: "Mabel" overhears her companion is now wealthy, expressing surprise since she "heard it first"—poking fun at how gossip and social status updates spread among society circles. The page is primarily light social satire and humor rather than serious political commentary.
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THE MAYOR, RETURNING FROM A HOLIDAY, DISCOVERS HE HAS LEFT THE KEY TO THE CITY IN HIS OTHER SUIT. The Automobile Salesman Goes Crazy “DOSITIVELY the greatest little boat that ever climbed Mount Everest with full-floating, semi- tubercular ignition geared seven to one on the camshaft just like the special job we did for the Prince of Wales over a hundred thousand miles using no oil or gasoline the flexibility of a twin-six and the economy of a motor- eyele flanged ruby-encrusted vacuum conditional sales contract it’s a steal for twice the money with two-tone mauye tire-carriers and extra-crenelated steering post as standard equipment across the ra Desert in reverse and you have five years to pay an acceleration of from one to a hundred miles an hour up the steps of the White House a prominent movie star just ordered reciprocal, underslung, demi-pediculous bushings think what you owe your wife and kiddies for the niftiest little job we call it the Rover Boy Sedan all the y round and increase your earning capacity with shredded nuts and bolts to sign right here, please. Robert Lord. Memorable ASTOR'S WIFE: Darling, what w: ut last Sunda I want to tell mj ) at it was one they should always remember. your sermon class t A BUSINESS expert declares that a modern office can be run without stenographers. This ought to give the girls a little more time during the day to go out to lunch, OUR rules of social arithmetic: Adulation, Detrac- tion, Stultification, and Derision. Appreciative Lines On Receiving What the Nice Nellies of Advertising Call a “Beverage Container” FE OW sweet to know that in your friend- Ship I apparently still bask, In pleasant proof of which you send To me this handsome silver beverage container. A generous pint; form-fitting, too! What more could any human ask Unless, perchance, it were the brew With which to fill my silver bever. container? I thank you, friend, who sent me this, O ever mar the future bliss Which I foresee with this, my beverage container! G. S. Chappetl. How to Get That Bee Off the Piazza TELL bee it is bore. Bee will hang head. Will go y. Read Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book for Busy Bee Send telegram to bee. All is discovered. camp. Turn up in Canada, Inform bee better-class insects do not buzz. keep silent. Die of ennui. Read works of H. L. Mencken to bee. come cynic. Will lose faith in hive. of alcoholic poisoning. Sprinkle garlic on bee. mere hornet. Exit bee. Bee will de- Bee will Bee will be- Lead bad life. Die Become Bee will lose caste. W.W. Scott. Mabel; 1 wean THE FELLOW You'Re GOING WITH NOW 18 VERY WEALTHY. Maude: i'm sonny, DEAR, BUT 1 HEARD IT FiRsT, comicbooks.com