Life — April 28, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 8 This page contains two satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century scientific pretension and business culture. **Left cartoon**: "The Misguided Security Salesman Who Tried to Sell a Doctor Some Stock in an Apple Corporation" depicts a chaotic laboratory where a salesman has been literally thrown around by an angry scientist-doctor. The cartoon ridicules fraudulent stock salesmen preying on professionals through false "scientific" investment schemes. **Right section**: "Just Between Us Girls" is a gossip column in exaggerated typography, mocking women's magazine rhetoric. The author (Lloyd Mager) satirizes pseudo-scientific claims—particularly about universities conducting dubious kiss-testing and necking experiments—as absurd modern trends. The humor targets both sensationalized science journalism and women's breathless fascination with relationship pseudo-science. Both pieces lampoon the era's gullibility toward fake science and get-rich-quick schemes.