Life, 1927-11-03 · page 17 of 44
Life — November 3, 1927 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three satirical pieces: 1. **"Advice to About 20,000,000 Lovesick Maidens"**: A poem by Carroll advising young women to marry men who love them "nearly" and "purely" rather than those with merely physical attraction—social commentary on marriage expectations. 2. **"An Embarrassing Moment—The Elephant Who Forgot"**: A cartoon showing an elephant in an awkward social situation, likely satirizing absent-mindedness or social blunders. 3. **"A Business Man Views a Football Game"**: A businessman monologuing about football's inefficient organization compared to business operations—satirizing how businessmen approach every activity through a commercial/efficiency lens, missing the sport's entertainment value. The page mocks early 20th-century attitudes toward romance, social propriety, and American business culture's obsession with profit and organization.
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Advice to About 20,000,000 Lovesick Maidens ZOU to whom his protestations, Though they are devotional, Seem, well, rather grotesque rations, Lacking the emotional Element you think you're needing, Listen to this simple pleading: Think of him as one who'd nearly Die for you ecstatically; One who loves you quite sincerely But not cinematically; Then, unless you're off your filbert, Marry him and not John Gilbert. Carroll Carroll. System “T HEAR the and in t “Yes, but the superintendent of the charity collected five thou- larity drive.” three thousand a year, the assistant fifteen burean — gets hundred, office supplies and bills for past supplies, together with ex- amount to four penses of the drive, hundred is left.” “What are they going to do with so only a hundred dollars Ww Mme. Thérése (proprietor of Thérése, In THAT THE EXCLUSIVE NATURE OF OUR WEAR THE FORMAL MORNI The New Clerk: yes, MADAME, AND WILL THE FIRM F IERE, OR MUST I BUY MY OWN GARDENIAS? BOUTO: AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT THE ELEPHANT W110 FORGOT, A Business Man Views a Football Game YEAH, great crowd... Must be more than a hundred thousand people here...Let’s see, at an av- were— ons): YOU WILL REMEMBER TELE DICTATES THAT YOU SHALL 7 COAT WHEN ON DUTY. RNISH THE CUSTOMARY a seat... dollars And it can’t cost much to put on game like this they don't idvertise it... Big chance for the boys, too. ..Heard of and-dollar-a Wonder Not much overhead, ushers must serve for ticket-takers, too kwork Must have a lot of confere Makes merchants and the And then the rail these must erage of, say, three-fifty Over three hundred thousand have to one who got a_ the week offer in Hollyw ful organization in cheering nothing and Runs like taken money for the filling stations roads Wh spend fifty dollars apiece That's vdollars just for one day There in idea in this for my What? Somebody made a Oh! Louis DeArmand peoph fine—milli Wonderful organization ought to be business touchdown?. Weather Report I UB: There serious motor accidents on Sun were cighty-seven day Des: My! What a beautiful day it must have been! “TM a joke writer of parts “Oh, I see; you write the Ford comicbooks.com