Life, 1927-06-09 · page 28 of 39
Life — June 9, 1927 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor compilation page collecting jokes and satirical observations from various publications, organized around themes of modern foolishness. **Main cartoon** (top): Shows a man in a broken-down car amid Roman ruins, captioned "Yes, the place with the terrible road—that was Rome." The satire mocks tourists who complain about poor road conditions while visiting historically significant sites. **Recurring themes:** - **Class/parenting absurdities**: A father boasts his daughter learns from a phonograph instead of piano lessons because it's "easier to move to the country"—mocking upper-class pretension. - **Child-rearing contradictions**: A nursemaid is legally reprimanded for calling a baby a "beast," yet nurses feel the child was oversensitive—satirizing excessive coddling. - **Teacher theft**: A child reports teachers routinely steal students' toys and candy for their own children—dark social commentary on teacher ethics. - **Inefficiency humor**: A Swiss hotel requests guests not dress formally because it upsets maids' work; a car dealer advertises "over 100 cars in stock" but supplies only second-hand vehicles. The page reflects 1920s-30s anxieties about modern manners, education, and commercialism.
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Our Foolis “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” YES, THE PLACE WITH THE TER Stow on a Ford: “Don't laugh, it may be your daughter."—Miami Life. “YOUR DAUGHTER 18 LEARNING THE PIANO?” “NO, THE PHONOGRAPH—IT MAKES LESS NOISE AND 18 EASIER TO MOVE To THE COUNTRY.” —L Illustration (Paris). EE ROAD—THAT WAS ROME.” —Simplicissimus (Munich). How to Manage a Nursemaid Svixe through her father, a journal- ist, a baby aged seven months has had her nurse reprimanded by the Prague Court for calling her a beast. Among Prague nurses the feeling is that the child was too touchy. —Punch. Wurreman (fo drummer): Go easy on the bass-drum. It's fifty cents a pound! —Brown Jug. Memutrs of the young- er generation are alike in many disrespects, —Arkansas Gazette, mtemporaries The Little Gray Hole in My Vest Tuene’s a little gray hole in my vest, It happened the place that was best; For a hole in the coat and a hole in the pants Are both of the kind you can see at a glance, But you always can button your coat, And hide all defects in the vest. So here's to the moth with such knowl- edge of cloth— Such insight is rare in a pest. —Yale Record, Dark Doings ° Whar was your knowledge, or cher- ished conviction, of the criminal procliv- ities of teachers when you were a child? Our friend Tommy, aged six, came home from school without his top. “L was playing with it, and the teacher took it,” said he. “That was right,” his mother declared. “You shouldn't play with your top at school.” “She didn't care if I played with it,” said Tommy. “She just wanted it, She takes lots of thingy from children—tops and candy and chalk and everything. And then she takes them home and gives them to her own children. That's what all the teachers do."—Detroit News, Comic Relief Ir was George S. Kaufman's pungent poke in the New York Times. In re- cording a soggy musical comedy this season, he wound up his report with: “Laughter coming from the rear rows indicated that somebody was telling a joke back there."—New York Graphic. An Efficiency Measure Notice. posted in a Swiss hotel: “Strange gentlemen will to please not to dress for dinner, as this costume flut- ters the souls of the maid folk and no work is resulted. Humbly asked.” —Boston Transcript. “Over too cars in stock....We supply only the very bent."—-Adet. in @ Local Papers SECOND-HAND cars, we presume. —Humorist (London). THCOPORS YUKO IF THE ROMANS HAD GONE TO COLLEGE. —Chicago Phoeniz. comicbooks.com