Life, 1926-12-02 · page 61 of 81
Life — December 2, 1926 — page 61: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **humor columns and advertisements** from an early 20th-century satirical magazine. The main satirical content includes short jokes about contemporary social changes: - **"Flaming Youth"** mocks modern children's informality, showing a boy telling his mother he abandoned polite "lady-and-gentleman" behavior with his sister and instead "chased her" — satirizing the perceived decline of Victorian propriety among youth. - **"Why Men Leave Home"** jokes about a wife's obsession with a new car, positioning herself in back while relegating her husband to driving — poking fun at changing gender dynamics and consumerism. - Various one-liners satirize modern attitudes toward work, romance, and fashion. The page is dominated by **period advertisements** for luxury goods (LOEWE cigars, Renault automobiles, Abbott's bitters), targeting affluent readers. The "Flaming Youth" reference reflects contemporary anxiety about post-WWI generational shifts toward more casual social behavior — a recurring theme in 1920s satire.
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Flaming Youth Morier sent her little boy to take his smaller sister safely to kindergarten, When the boy came back in a surpris- ingly short time, she asked: “Harry, did you treat Mary little lady as I asked you to do: > said) Harry, carelessly, “we canned that lady-and-gentleman stuff and I chased her most of the way —Charleston News and Courier. like a In a Pinch use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Fairy Story Once upon a tine there was a mys- tery play in which suspicion was di- rected from the beginning on that one of the characters who was revealed later to be the slayer.—Detroit News. “1 wistt every year had three hundred ays of rest.” “Are you mad? ‘Then we would have to work a day every fourth year.” —Southern California Wampus, and sixty-five if A cancer is anything you work at with- out feeling imposed on. —Columbia (S.C.) State. “VES, MY FIRST WAS A GOOD ’USRAND. You poy’? Get ‘eM LiKE —Bulletin (Sydney). 59 Why Men Leave Home ‘Tue Browns of Tooting had their new car out yesterday. Wifey surveyed the saloon with pride, as she climbed into the back. “I'll sit here, darling,” she said to her hubby, as the latter put on his driving gloves. “Where will you it?”’—London Daily Chronicle. Astonishing Precocity From a Missouri paper—“Born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert P. Thompson a fine boy Wednesday morning. After the baby was born he went downtown and the boys celebrated the occasion by burn- ing his hat."—New Yorker. Tablespoontul Abbot after meals is great ald jon. Sample Bit re by mall, 25 cls. in stamps, . CW. Abbott & Co., Balt, Md Winning Colors Cusroaen (in haberdashery to see a tie in which blue pred Cirex: Here's one in whic dominates, but the purple i nates even more, I think. —Boston Transcript. I wish ninates. blue pre- 4 it predomi- Mien Poot IM Now, Daxeixe, we read, is on the wane, Still, there is a good deal of dancing on the wax.—Punch, Lire Great Patent. Of countries Canada and British Possessions, $5.00 a year in advance. cannot be supplied. lished every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Title registered in U.S: Additional postage to foreign the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back te | illustrations in Lire re copyrighted. For Reprint Rights ply .. England, to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter = —— The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E, C. Canadian distributor, ‘The American News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal,’ Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Lire does mot hold itself responsible for the loss oF non-return of unsolicited contributions, Notice of change of address should reach this ofice two weeks prior to the date of issue to be affected. Give him a LOEWE for Christmas Since 1856 there has been no finer or happier Christmas gift for the man who smokes. Obtainable in America only at the better hotels and tobac- conists, and the more exclu- sive clubs. Guaranteed by FABER, COE AND GREGG, INC.—New York SPEED STAMINA nm OF THe Rene cviUIZaTion A FRENCH CAR OF is DERFECTION FOR ERICANS WHO ADPRECIA THE BE/T GIFTS OF THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW. FULLY FQUIDDED RENAULTS PRICED FROM 11950 TO 812.000 INCLUDING THE TAX. new VOK (ITV AMD. PAQTY 776-786 ELEVENTH AVE RENAULT 719 FIFTH AVENUE SERIE STATION comicbooks.com