Life, 1927-11-24 · page 7 of 44
Life — November 24, 1927 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Life (dated NOV 22, 1927) contains humorous essays and a cartoon rather than political commentary. The main illustration shows a couple at what appears to be a tropical resort. The caption reads: "HEZ DID YOU GET MY POST CARD FROM HAWAII? / SHE: YOU DIDN'T FOOL ME, DEARIE. I NOTICED THE U.S. STAMP RIGHT AWAY." The joke satirizes people who pretend to travel exotically while actually staying home—the woman detects her husband's ruse by noticing he used a U.S. postage stamp rather than a Hawaiian one, revealing he mailed the postcard locally to create the illusion of being abroad. The surrounding text includes travel-themed essays like "Lucky Fellow" about winter getaways and "How I Feel About Winter," reflecting 1920s leisure culture and vacation fantasies among the affluent.
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ae Lucky Fellow HEN Winter comes. 1 pack my things journey to Springs: In cold November I am seen At Nassau or St. Augustine. And White To Bimini [ next repair; Then Asheville, Norfolk, and Palm ~ Beach— I spend a week or two at each. When January's cold and clammy, I'm in Bermuda or Miami; And sometimes Honolulu sees me, Where there’s no winter gale to freeze me. When Riviera towns allur You'll find me on the ¢ d'Azur; I greet the Spring at Nice or Cannes: I am the rotogravure man. Norman R. Jaffray. te “ORDER ME A DRY MARTINI, Sulphur THER E ter I love. the chestnut fles. ..the the scenes of domestic bliss in the advertisements. ..the Ro furnace tary Club's electric Thanksgiving finds me at Bellaire: 1 little box ELAINE conversation at the -AND, IN WEATHER REPORTS FROM CHICAGO.” A LOW EVEN VOICE, READ ME THE How I Feel About Winter is something about Win- Winter: vendor's stove he musie of waf- mailman’s ear muffs... ited Christ- ¢ Guest to-morrow pean-trip bridge-table ladies in the department vators athes...the doormat ‘Vl take my cold shower the Euro reminiscences at — the Ils the ore ele mornir red golf Babe Ruth in hunting “Revelling s tree in the public square...the in the sand—Mrs. Wallis Binnim of aspirin tablets...the Tuttle, her dau Barbara, and a Auto Show Friend”. ..the on een ~ year - old the limp-leather editions of Edgar English novelist at the women’s lit erary club Miss America To-night at Land 0° Dance the magazine covers showing girls in fur-trimmed bathi suits... "Starve a fever, feed a cold” There is something about Winter IT love, but IT don't He: pip you Get MY Post CARD PROM HAWAII? She: you piwn’? roo. ME, DRARIE. THE vU. 1 NOTICED S. STAMP RIGHT AWAY. know what it is. Tupper Greenwald. Last Resort M’ RTELLE: My folks are * g to send me to a girls’ finishing school Mytprep: Mine either. can't man age me, comicbooks.com