Life — February 24, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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# "Life" Magazine Page 8 - Early 20th Century Satire This page contains three unrelated satirical pieces: **"Stranger" cartoon**: A postmaster and constable discuss a suspicious visitor, playing on small-town paranoia about outsiders. **"Nicety à la Mode"**: A comedic dialogue where a lady requests increasingly specific vegetables from her grocer ("Tony"), each qualified as "nice." The joke mocks genteel affectation and excessive politeness in social interactions. **"Just Between Us Girls"**: A long, breathless monologue by one woman to another, satirizing gossip culture. She denies spreading rumors about "MAbel" while doing exactly that—a classic ironic critique of female social hypocrisy and cattiness. **"What It Was"**: A brief joke about a man misremembering his wife's reception date. The page lampoons class pretension, small-town suspicion, and especially women's social behavior through exaggeration and irony.