Life, 1927-03-10 · page 12 of 38
Life — March 10, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three humorous sketches satirizing domestic life and social conventions. **"Checking Out"** mocks hotel departures, showing a husband reading a notice while his wife protests about forgotten items like the candlestick. **"The Guest of Honor"** depicts Mrs. Coolidge complaining about having a spokesman (likely referring to Calvin Coolidge's administration). She sarcastically suggests the Spokesman should have been elected President instead, expressing frustration that he dominates conversation and prevents her from sharing opinions. The humor targets political wives' lack of agency and male dominance in public discourse. **"The Nose-and-Throat Specialist"** shows someone in a bathtub, with a caption suggesting they've been there since champagne arrived at a party—a joke about alcohol consumption during Prohibition. All three sketches use everyday situations to mock social behaviors and contemporary politics.
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Checking Out Husband (reading aloud notice on hotel room door): WAVE you LEFT ANYTHI Wife: ou, ves, pear, WE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THE CANDLE- STICK, TOO. In a Word— y, to J. W. Shaver gineering News Rec- ord came a letter from a German high-school student, suggesting that since his graduation thesis had been marked “gut,” it might well be translated into English and pub- lished. The title of the thesis fol- lows: “Kritische Erérterung iiber den Einfluss des Hohlraumes im Bohrloch auf die Arbei- tsleistung fester und Fliissigluft- Sprengstoffe bei besonderer Be- riicksichtigung der fiir den Kali- bergbau gege- benen Verhalt- nisse.”” Which, being approximately in- terpreted, signi- fies in part: “A Critical Discussion onthe Influence of the Size of the Cavity Made by Bor- ing on the Work Done by Solid and air Explosives with Special ion of the Conditions Pe- culiar to Potash Mining.” P.S. The job is still open. WW. We OETS complain that there is no rh, for “tabloid.” Does this imply that there is a reason? The Nose-and-Throat Specialist: say au-n-1-H-H! The Guest of Honor (“The Executive family will move into a house on Dupont Circle while repairs are being made to the White House.”— News item.) RS. COOLIDGE: I guess eve all right, at last. up and everything. Mr. Cootince: Spare room? going to have company to-night? Mrs. Cootiwce: Company to- night? Why, Cal, how you talk; we're going to have company to- night and every night we're he Mr. Coouwwce (apprehensively): Who? Mrs. Coouince: Why, the Spokes- man, of course. Mr. Cooumwcr (pettishly): Spokesman, Spokesman, Spokesman! Always hanging around! All I ever hear of is the Spokesman! Anybody might think he’d been elected Presi- dent instead of me! Mrs. Coote (placatingly): Now, Cal, you know well as I do that it was you asked the Spokesman to stop with us in the first place. Mr. Cooter: I asked him? [ did? Why, Grace, that man’s been the bugbear of my life. A blame pest, 1 call him! Every darn thing he says I disagree with him about. It’s getting so a fellow can’t have any opinions of his own but what the Spokesman’s got to shove in his oar. Tell you what I'm going to do—if I ever see that fool Spokesman again, mi to him, I'll say— (Enter Spokesman.) Spokesman (cheerily): Well, folkses, what's the breakfast menu to-day? Sausage and hot cakes? That’s your old John W. Spokes- man’s pet dish— Mr. anv Mrs. Cooninae (resign- edly): Yes, in- deed. Won't you ...Sit down? Tip Bliss. There, now, ything’s arranged Spare room made We Finale M AISIE: What time did you get home last night? Frossie: I don’t know—my watch stopped when I got into that tub of cham- pagne at the party. DTCHske comicbooks.com