Life, 1926-12-23 · page 9 of 37
Life — December 23, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humor pieces rather than political cartoons. "Mrs. Pep's Diary" recounts domestic anecdotes from November 30th—a visit to grandmother, a truck passing the house, and shopping for Christmas presents. The tone is light domestic satire. "Girl's Father" depicts a common scenario: a young man visiting, with the father sternly asking his "business." The youth claims to travel, prompting the father's skeptical response to "get busy"—standard period humor about courtship anxieties. "When He-Men Get Together" satirizes men's casual conversations about their occupations and possessions (bakery, farm implements, cars)—poking fun at masculine small talk and materialism. "Matched" presents a brief dialogue where two people discover their siblings work together at a "five-and-ten-cent store." The cartoons employ gentle domestic and social humor typical of 1920s Life magazine.
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Life November All the talk now is of 30th the Marlborough-Van- derbilt marriage annul- ment, and it does put Sam in mind of a time when he was a little boy on a visit to his grandmother in New York, and, seeing a large boiler on a truck pass the house, did inquire what it might be, whereto his grand- mama responded that it was a wed- ding present for Miss Vanderbilt, who lived around the corner and was to be married that day to the Duke of Marlborough, and for years Sam did believe that she had spoken the truth. And when he inquires if he does appear as old as such a memory makes him feel, I can but counter with my own reaction to reading in the journals this season of luncheons given here and there by you women who only the day before terday, it seems, were brougli to curtsey to their mothers’ guests and, with luck, steal a cake from the tea table en passant. But Lord! I do not dread the lengthening shadows of life, which has increased in beauty and splendor with every year added to my span, nor would I return for any boon soever to my younger days, when I was blown about by many winds of doctrine and constantly try- ing to stand tiptoe in places whercon I could not balance with two stable feet. The psychologists having granted my generation a twenty-year extension of youth, it will be some years, however, before I begin trot- ting to the guild with my workbag, or Sam starts writing letters to the daily prints and the Park Commissioner... . This morning to the shops to buy a Christmas present for my god- son, and I did get him a blue willow chair with a music box con- cealed in the springs, so that he shall have music whenever he sits in it, and I shall not be above deriving en- joyment myself out of such a piece of furni- ture. Then to luncheon at an inn with Edith Banning, and we fell a-talking of how great the interest of our times is in the abnor- mal, especially in the show-case world, where conversations run (Continued on page 27) Wife: 1 saw You KISSING THE COOK TO-DAY. Husband: ye-es, peak. Wife: wkRE YOU TRYING TO MAKE HER GO OR STAY? Father: very Goon! Now, Let's Girl’s Father (sternly): wat 1s your Business, YOUNG MAN? Youth: 1 TRAVEL, sin you GET BUSY. When He-Men Get Together “WZJES, I'm in the bakery business.” “Well, that’s a good business. in the farm implement busin “Well, that’s a good business. Where do you live?” “T live out in Walnut Hill.” “Well, that’s a good neighborhood to live in. I live over in the Elm- hurst district.” “Well, that’s a good place to live. What kind of a car do you drive?” “T drive a Straight-Eight.” “Well, that’s a good car. I own a Silent-Seven.” “Well, that’s a good car to drive.” “Yep. So long.” “So léng.” wholesale I'm James A. Sanaker. Matched ILLY: Me brudder plays in de fife and drtm band. Ixey: Dot's nodding. works mit der store. Me sister fife-and-ten-cent comicbooks.com