Life, 1928-01-26 · page 15 of 34
Life — January 26, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A motorist (labeled "Native (to nervous motorist)") encounters a pedestrian who warns him to "take a chanst on it" and "stan' right here till ye git sale down." This satirizes early automobile dangers and the collision between modern vehicles and traditional pedestrian culture. The nervous motorist represents anxious drivers navigating unpredictable road conditions and pedestrians unfamiliar with automobiles. **Main Article:** "How to Play the Bagpipes" is humorous instructional content about learning Scottish bagpipes. It references Uncle Sam's campaign to preserve traditional bagpipe playing in America, treating the instrument humorously while offering genuine playing tips. The inserted dialogue between gunmen jokes about Chicago's violent reputation, contrasting the innocent bagpipes with the city's crime associations.
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AVE you often wished you could play the bagpipes? How often have you sat in a corner and bit your nails while a social rival amused the company with “Annic Laurie” or “Old Black Joe’? Don't be a clam all your life! You, too, can master this in- strument with a few minutes’ practice each day. Good bagpipe players are scarce, and growing scarcer all the time, although Uncle Sam has started a campaign to preserve the bagpipe play- ers of America by limiting the open season on them to the months of July and August. For this reason you will shine practically alone in your field if you elect to learn the intricacies of the ancient Scotch instrument. There are only three or four simple noises to make on the bagpipes, and they are all produced by blowing into the mouth of the instrument. The “A” is sounded by pursing Arar Native (to servons motorist): Oh, I'd take a chanst on it. Tell yer what—I'll stan’ right here till ye git safe down. How to Play the Bagpipes the lips and breathing deeply from | the chest, thus: “Wah-woo-wee-wa- hoo.” The “C” is played with t tongue in the cheek. The “E flat requires a hare-lip, which will be First GUNMAN: That boy of yours is already one of the best hands with an automatic in all Chicago. Seconp: Yes, he’s a gyp off the old block, gladly furnished by our accessory department on application, Just a few “Don'ts” for begin- ners: Don’t try to rush the down- swing; it will invariably cause a slice. Don’t let the bag- pipes get clogged up with stale oxygen, nor play in a garage with the doors locked: asphyxiation (un- pleasant breath) will result. Above all, don’t fill the bag with water and play a joke on your friends by squirting it into their faces. Water causes the bagpipes to burst, in cold weather. Send now for our Little Marvel Bagpipes on ap- proval, and if after several weeks’ trial you find you do not like the instrument, that’s your tough luck. Norman R. Jaffray. AC: Does Clarence still write poems? Tom: No, he finally mar- ried the girl. comicbooks.com