Life, 1927-02-10 · page 16 of 43
Life — February 10, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon**: A patient anxiously asks a doctor, "Aren't there any new diseases this season, doctor?" The humor satirizes hypochondria—the tendency to imagine one has diseases—suggesting the patient actually *wants* a new illness to worry about, reflecting a broader cultural anxiety about health fads and medical trends of the era. **"Operator Announcing" Section**: This satirizes telephone company advertisements and corporate self-promotion, mocking how companies boast about their services while highlighting mundane details like wire foundry operations and address changes. **Bottom Illustration**: Two workers in what appears to be industrial or construction work, with the caption "Good thing we was snappin' into it, ed. The boss is watchin'." This reflects class tensions and workplace surveillance anxiety common to Depression-era satire.
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Patient (a little ansiously) : an Operator Announcing! The Telephone Company Learns Something from the Radio “TTELLO, lads and lassics of Telephoncland. This is Miss Minnabel Glon raking from the Gorgonzola ol at the corner of Heffeldinger Street and Rhubarb ‘Terrace—the voice of the largest and best-equipped sunlit telephone ex- change in the suburbs of our fair city. To-day, I have a most unusual treat in store for all you folks who might want to call Rhubarb 5678. Through the courtesy of the Ajax Telephone Instrument Manufactur- “GOOD THING WE WAS SNAPPIN’ INTO IT, ED. ing Company and the Zolch Broth- ers Stecl and Copper Wire Foundry where excellent wire can be bought very reasonably and you assured of prompt, polite service, and through the courtesy of the Polly- anna Telephone Pole Company, which is giving away free samples at their pleasant new offices on Blah- fah Street—we take great pleasure in informing all you folks that Rhu- barb 5678 has been changed to South Main Central 8765.” THE BOSS 18 WATCHIN’.” 'T THERE ANY NEW DISEASES THIS SEASON, DOCTOR? The Touring Guide Pub- lisher Invites a Friend to Lunch I Y pear Georce: Suggest you arrange to tour over to my office to-morrow, stopping long enough for lunch, It is not a hard trip, mostly over paved roads. 0.0. Leaving your office building, you turn sharp right. Continue un- til you reach strect-car tracks at corner. 0.1, Turn left and follow car tracks until you reach news-stand. Bear left again to entrance of Gorgeous Building. Swing around to right through revolving door and so into hallway. 0.4 Turn right into express cle vator, 0.5 Straight up to 89th Floor of Gorgeous Building. 0.6. Straight ahead on 89th Floor, leaving cuspidor on right, water cooler on left, then turn right into corridor to office 89326. Go over office boy and park against railing where I will s The Old One OPSY: Have you seen Barbara’s new evening gown? Jura: No, I’ve only seen the one she got day before yesterday. a comicbooks.com