Life, 1927-03-31 · page 6 of 35
Life — March 31, 1927 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon ("Strictly Business"):** A well-dressed man stands over a seated woman at an office desk, discussing piano payment. The joke hinges on marital efficiency: the wife mentions a piano man came to collect payment; the husband dismisses getting a new piano for only five dollars down. This satirizes early 20th-century consumer credit culture and the casual attitude toward debt installment plans, while also poking fun at domestic economics where husbands treat major purchases as trivial expenses. **Bottom Cartoon ("He's No Man's Fool"):** A bent figure serves food to a reclining person. The caption suggests this depicts someone who refuses to be fooled or manipulated—likely satirizing gullibility or social dynamics, though the exact reference remains unclear without additional context.
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ME GOT THE PAYMENT TO-) Husband WOULD TAKE THE PIAD How Mucit 1s 1t? Wife: e1aur DOLLARS. Tlusband : Let HIM TAKE 7. WE CAN GET A NEW ONE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DOWN, Business as Usual CTIVITY in the Fool Market ed its usual brisk- the closing marking a healthy ange in the customary staple fool commoditie: Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall and Grant's Tomb, $500—5,000 asked and offered; gold bricks and Brazil- ian diamonds, lively; oil wells, silver mines and gilt-edged _ securities, steady; real estate, booming; poker and bridge games with strangers, normal; ringside seats, front-row tables at night clubs, two on the aisle in the second row, steady; second- hand , radios, phonographs, saxo- ete., steady; gin, Scotch, rye, di, champagne, etc., brisk; pedigreed police pups, small de- mand; clopements, tea with the sec- retary, diamond bracelets and danc- ing lessons, as usual; auction sales, antiques and household equipment, etc., on instalment plan, brisk; drugstore analyses, lively; beauty treatments, diets and patent medicine compounds, steady; revolvers, nor- mal; bargain sales, blondes pre- ferred; joy riding, steady; interior decorating, light; beating locomo- tives at railroad crossings, normal. Common or horse sense, little to no demand. H.W. HAT this country really needs is a five-day Congress. Strictly Business O'! in that brisk efficient land Of Business, nothing's wasted, § The Boss with joy will leap ani holler When some new method saves a § The clever lad who'd be thought he Arr ach morning on the . r, the boy who'd make a hity aves ink by always writing “ From office chief to office cat, Each one must know just where he's @ Huge volumes show just what is spent Expressed in detail and % The cost of one hour's indigestion Is figured out beyond all ? And overhead, from pins to rents, Is figured down to tenths of ¢ And so I've found, at cost of slum ber, This most efficient way to Typewritten lines, and shorten these Long words, such as (). Wayne G. Haisley. A Tabloid Glossary ILLIONAIRE—Any one who has a relative with more than five hundred dollars in the bank. Society Girl—One who does not eat with her knife. Alleged—We guess. Pretty—Has two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, Unimpeachable Sources—The Mv- nicipal Building elevator man says Débutante—Under forty-six. 5 Subsidized Press—Papers with more circulation than ours. Art—Two legs, naked. Spade—A spade. E.R. epee Ok A eG HE’s NO MAN’S FOOL, comicbooks.com