Life, 1927-12-08 · page 11 of 40
Life — December 8, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humorous sketches typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. The main cartoon, "Traffic Cop," depicts a woman stopping traffic to ask directions to the Bulkmore Hotel, while a man claiming to be "the house detective" offers help—the joke being her gullibility in trusting a stranger's assistance. "Earth Control" mocks children's naive understanding of geography through a conversation where a child asks if George Washington was "the father of his country," then questions whether he had other countries—play on literal versus figurative meaning. The remaining items—"Perfection," "Slow Work," and "Willie"—are brief comic sketches about romantic misunderstandings, work delays, and a child asking for money for ice cream. These reflect period humor about gender relations, childhood innocence, and everyday social situations.
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mio Cf) Tovembkey Phe first) post unusu November 15th ally heavy, and amongst the acceptable part of it were four letters fromvarious foreign countries wherefrom I did detach the postage to give it to e who plans to Goings, saper one of the rooms of her projected Lord! solely for the domestic variety, our circular mail for a month would pro- vide her with suffici a fair-sized salon! country place in stamps. were she to go in at covering for This morning it did contain a pronouncement from a famous wine company that one of its experts had devised a method for con- triving champagne out of the funda- mental ingredients of their products, and my husband, poor wretch, took it so seriously as to bear it away in his wallet, reminding me of the Latin proverb, “Man gladly credits that which he wishes to believe.” Lay abed after my — breakfast, strangely overcome with a sense of Earth Control “George Washington was the father of his country!" “Yeh? And who was the mother?” “Well, Betsy Ross is sometimes con- sidered as such."* “Did they have any more countries TRAFFIC COP (fo man who has asked a direction): Hotel, eh? You can't find the Bulkmore Are you staying th LOST MAN: No, I'm just the house detective futility which is uncommon to me, until, realizing that if I did continue amy train of thought, they would be draggin the morrow, I did rouse myself, do on black faille and velvet toque, and was off to the shops te river for me on the mIny new seek out something frivolous which 1 could not afford, and it did turn out to be a pair of earrings, great pearls dangling at just the proper length and they did so set me up that I did summon Mima Alsop to lunch with me at a publick and fine, and we on clams and broiled chiffonade did foibles of our sex until we mushrooms. salad, discuss the were in a mild gale, agreeing, amongst other things, that it were better if speak ers at women’s luncheons, instead of perils of their professions or the trend of literature, would choose Adventures in a Diet” and “Are Mid-Winter Milli nery Sales on the Leve Dined this night with Bill and Elida Langley, setting all our clocks well ahead so that Sam would make it on time re gardless of what his own retarded afterwards to Merry 1 harlequinade containing discoursing upon the our nati such subjects as “My Turkish Bath, watch might say, and see George Cohan in “The Malones,” a splendid brass band which plays all too (Please turn to page 33 Perfection BOTH beautiful and dumb My own true love must Beautiful, so I'll And dum Slow Work I ETTY: You only met me 1 ind now you hour ago, kiss me! Pacn: Well, I so much time WILLIE: want to m: . can I have a penny? I ea down-payment on an € cream cone. comicbooks.com