Life, 1927-04-28 · page 12 of 35
Life — April 28, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Mrs. Peps Diary (top right):** A personal gossip column describing the writer's weekend activities and social encounters in elite circles. The humor relies on name-dropping and complaints about wealthy acquaintances' behavior—typical satirical fodder for mocking high society. **"What Do You Say When Grandfather Gives You a Nickel?" (center left):** A cartoon joke contrasting etiquette instruction with children's actual responses. The humor is straightforward: the "proper" answer versus a child's blunt practicality. **"Professor of Gestures" & "Among the Missing":** Brief joke snippets about social pretension and absent-minded intellectuals. **"Contrivance for Breaking in a New Pair of Shoes" (bottom):** A humorous illustration showing an elaborate mechanical device meant to break in shoes, satirizing over-engineered solutions to everyday problems. The page exemplifies *Life*'s focus on satirizing upper-class manners and social conventions.
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Professor of Gestures NICK: See that man over there? He's an etiquette teacher in a deaf-and-dumb school. Knack: What are his duties? “Teaching the pupils not to talk with their hands full.” Among the Missing “QHALL We Abolish Religion?” is the question raised by Bruce Barton in a recent magazine article, but hunt as we would we could not find the correct answer in the back pages of the paper. The Power of Love TOM: What is your pet method of getting a girl? Jerry: The pet method. T that, we can’t understand why we should be so unpopular in China, They don’t owe us anything. Ns Rave Diary April Back to town carly by mo- 5th tor from spending the week-end in Llewelyn Park with Em and Aldis Squire, and never have I known so much merri- ment in so brief a span of time nor visited in a house which I did covet more. Through Fifty-seventh Street to wish young Mylert Armstrong well in the shop which he is opening this day, but finding him not there and the curtains not yet up, I did escape without buying any seven- hundred-dollar chairs, of which M. has several tempting specimens. So home and at the public prints, which did vouchsafe little beyond Senator Couzens’ having been obliged to bor- row a dollar from Senator Borah in or- der to pay for his luncheon and Queen Mary’s close approach to guessing a certain baby’s correct weight, items of sorry news value, to my notion, But when I did call Sam's attention to the account of his junior clerk's marriage on Saturday to a damsel of great riches, he quoth, “When the clergyman came to the with-all-my- worldly-goods-I-thee-endow part, Richards must have thought, “There goes my fountain pen!’ ”” To lunch- eon with Marge Boothby, and we talked of this and that, wishing that we knew some good masseuse who was learning her trade and would thereby be willing to rub us fre- quently and gratis for the sake of the experience, and wondering why the majority of men break into French when they get a bit squiffy, (Continued on page 30) CONTRIVANCE FOR BREAKING IN A NEW PAIR OF SHOFS. comicbooks.com