Life, 1927-08-04 · page 11 of 40
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This page from *Life* magazine contains a satirical article titled "Fifteen Minutes a Day" alongside period illustrations. The main cartoon shows a car towing a bathtub—depicting motorists who take lakeside bathing trips, humorously suggesting they transport entire bathing facilities while driving through the countryside. The article text expresses anxiety about modern life's pace, claiming the author can master "all the ages" in fifteen minutes daily through reading. The narrative mocks self-improvement culture and dilettantism, referencing figures like "old Jim Hendricks" and satirizing the pretension of becoming a "silver-tongued orator" or "elected to the Senate" through such minimal effort. The accompanying figure illustrations show a woman and man in period dress, with dialogue suggesting romantic tension or social awkwardness—typical of *Life*'s humor about modern courtship and leisure.
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THE MOTORISTS WHO STRIP THE COUNTRYSIDE OF SHRUNS ALSO TAKE SOME OF THE LAKE WATER HOME FOR BATHING. Fifteen Minutes a Day BELIEVE everything the 1 thus obviate any dirty digs my wife — girl of my choice thro azine ads. tell me, and as a c¢ would otherwise make about my be- sonal ism sequence Tam terribly worried ing a dumb Tke as we drive home in Yes, sir, I can learn to do all I know that in fifteen minutes a our limousine; breed thoroughbred — these things in fifteen minutes a day, day I can familiarize myself with dogs and parrots, pick up practical and still 1 am worried the best literature of all the ages, medicine at a glance, so that if 1 I am worried beeaus: © other earn from three hundred dollars a ever get housemaid’s knee I shall twenty-three hours and five week up in my spare time by pleas know what to do about it, acquire minutes are going to drag so dread ant, vy methods, become a cartoon skill in boxing, fencing and moun fully is. or South American manager of — tain climbing; put that new roof on Tip Bliss my firm, learn Spanish, Ge an, my house myself inste f hiring Greek, Albanian, Sioux and ¢ somebody; pick up extra pin money Feeiich: to: sek. {OE purée isongole, by turaieg discarded honopraph General Orders thereby confounding the waiter and — records into wate irons, and win the yoxt S (to his chauffeur): While all the rest of the party who are Y we're away on this trip, Mugy taking no chances but are prudently 4 I want vou 4 thing but Trip ordering split pea soup; master the i ) ‘ } Superba Oil in the car. Insist upon saxophone, ukulele, guitar, it; take nothing « nd above all banjo and cymbals; be ' see that the s giving vo called into the president's f \ what you den 1. TD ean't afford office and soar above poor to have a ten-tl old Jim Hendricks, who is ‘ jollar ear ruined | destined to remain at the same bench all his life: be- come adept at the Black y ing at Bottom and Charleston, in- Mveeins crease every one of my body fi muscles 200 per cent., so 1 1 wide open sy can rise in the morning and Miveaiste: Cis Ris. on go through the day with that / saw Ton® ‘to-dav healthy glow; sell subserip + \ eauldii’s eikewne'e bake oP Garden tions to the Curtis publica H He aatd lied a Gutoltt ions, become silve A tions, become a silver for a week and he d know tongued orator and get elected to the Senate, make ship models that) go in dad | hottles and bri seventy- five dollars apiece or more, \ i learn civil engineering. bot ¢ oO a: he had. Er—er—did—did any, hypnotism and card so Jones: Splendid Ye tricks, which will make me Shes Wirt po you MEAN, PRO-WaK quite ti Muggins the life of the party and | Mes THvt's Rasy. A HIGHT IN EVERY DRINK Bi when the next shipment was ¢ ing through. T knew y t e trip. sir. s usual om a case of wh comicbooks.com