Life, 1926-12-16 · page 9 of 34
Life — December 16, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon depicts a corporate ceremony where a company president presents a purse of 1,000 asses to an employee named Methuselah in recognition of 500 years of service. The humor relies on the pun "asses" — simultaneously meaning donkeys (shown in the illustration) and money/currency slang. The page contains humor columns titled "Staccato Travelogue" (brief observations about American cities), "Embarrassing Moments" (social awkwardness), and "More Delicate" (a Q&A column about etiquette). These satirize urban life, automotive embarrassments, and social propriety of the era. The illustration of a trash can labeled "Just a Girl That Men Forget" uses personification to mock men's treatment of women as disposable.
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President of the Fi ISH SERVICE IN THE INTEREST OF THIS COMP. MR. METHU: AM, IT 18 MY PLEASANT DUTY TO PRESENT YOU WITH THIS PURSE OF ONE THOUSAND ASSES. EV ELAND—Howme of arterial s and the Van Swerin- eed of motors makes Park look like congress of Is giving imitation of picture Shaker artifi lakes and Avenue indigent jow-imotion with hh cottages of twenty rooms and sn -Union Club -John D. Roel n home looking like a model for a filling station wonder he left tow Euclid Ave- nue and what of Hollenden House in the grill. - +. Hotel and orchestr: h repertoire of 2,000 pieces. . a- lencia.” Chicago — Municipal pride and machine-guns....Sheridan Road lined arly General Grant residences....Scrawny, dus t - covered foundational planting— spir: canna Canna, spi . Art titute and Balaban & Katz....Sherwood An- derson and the stockyards....The sickly pale faces and the inevitable swagger....Big hotels and butter- ggers....Union Station and Fred Har + -“Valencia.” Omaha—Rosy-cheeked girls and ten baths Staccato Travelogue Charleston skirts, a short, bright- colored affair with a bandanna flut- tering from a pocket on the hip... Professional hospitality and Stetso: hats....“Left ham sandwiches’ made from the right-hand side of a porker—tenderer because he lies down on it less....That wide-open- space look—the tan, the shaved neck, the stiff-legged, pigeon-toed walk. ++-"We're only a small city, any- JUST A GIRL THAT MEN FORGET how, but there's one district where every other house has a still in it. And, beside Bluffs is just across the ri - “Valencia.” Embarrassing Moments HEN you're ten miles from the city and it's five below zero and a tire goes flat and you learn that your jack and pump are in the gar- age at home and it’s two miles to the nearest farmhouse and the occupants of the back seat are unnecessarily wordy...be nonchalant...light the gas tank. More Delicate UESTION: a man who lives in geles? Answer: Send him a pair of ear muffs, Question: rather crude? Answer: Possibly. Try sending him a schedule of ecast-bound trains. How can I insult Los An- But wouldn't that be HAT just-after-Christmas feel- ing—99 i& per cent. poor. comicbooks.com