Life, 1927-03-03 · page 7 of 35
Life — March 3, 1927 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three humorous sections: **"The Baseball Guide"** offers satirical etiquette advice for baseball players, cautioning against complaining to staff or making frivolous fund-raising appeals—likely mocking players' actual behavior of the era. **"From a Club Chair"** makes a brief social commentary about American manners and etiquette, suggesting even tabloid papers now teach gentlemen proper behavior. **"Absolutely True Story"** presents a cartoon about Prohibition enforcement. It depicts a corrupt officer who refused a bribe—presented as absurdly unusual. The punchline involves a romantic couple on a couch; the officer apparently encountered them before, suggesting his "integrity" is merely coincidental rather than principled. This satirizes widespread corruption among Prohibition agents during the 1920s-30s.
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cling won | his atter rople gyP- next | you Life The Baseball Guide (For Players Who Desire to Rise in the World) AKE no positive assertion to any porter, waiter, I bellboy, usher, chauffeur or other person with whom you may be talking privately. If you must say, “It’s a . e fine day’’ or “Them’s wonderful pancakes,” call in the club secretary and have him take it down. There is no sense in running the risk of being misunder- stood or misquoted. Never contribute to any fund for sending out for hot dogs or barbecue. You can never be sure the messenger will not go and post the money on a World Series game in which you may work four or s from now. n in six or eight years, long after you have forgotten whether you or- dered beef or pork, the sordid tale will come out. Do not Elizabeth: 4 MAN TOLD ME LAST NIGUT THAT MY KISSES WERE ADORABLE. Carolyn: wiio was We? Elizabeth: Never MIND, MY DEAR——-IIE WAS PERFECTLY SAT- ISFIED. bet on a horse-race, order a dish with a French name, get married or gamble in any mdnner. Play ing chewing-gum madhines to see whether anything will Fall out or not isa little thing but it shay plant and cultivate the deadly virus. Be sure to make four or five hits and score three or four runs in every game. This is important. If you go along with one or two hits and one or two runs a game and people begin to suspect you, just remember no- body but yourself is to blame. McC. H. Nothing to It “Lets play whackers.” How do you pl. “You count up to low who counts the even numbers n and the fel- whacks the other. Now you start.” “Al right. Zero.” FrORECAST—In not a few cur- rent water-power projects, the Convict: To-MORROW’s MY ELECTROCUTION Visitor (trying to be consoling): weit, Morr PoWER TO you. From a Club Chair [THE American people are divided into two great classes: those who think they are as good as anybody, and those who think they are better. * * # Now that even the tabloid papers are giving lessons in etiquette, it becomes more important than ever for a gentleman to have bad manners. J.K.M. Absolutely True Story NCE there was a Prohibition enforcement officer who refused a bribe. It wasn’t big enough. He: po you THINK 1M FOOLISH PALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU AT FIRST siGut? water will go to the stockholders and the power to somebody else. Hez WeLi, WARDLY. She: ou...BUT You’vE HAD A se <D LOOK since! YOU FORGET THAT WE MET ON THE BEACH. comicbooks.com