Life, 1928-02-09 · page 6 of 35
Life — February 9, 1928 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows a "Hired Man (from the city)" threatening to quit farm work over "awful silence," while an Old Farmer responds with pragmatic rural humor about frogs croaking in the pond. This satirizes the culture clash between urban workers and rural life—a common theme during early 20th-century industrialization when city people attempted farm labor. **"The Millennium Comes to the A.P. Man":** A satirical week of absurdist predictions (Prince of Wales flying across Atlantic, Queen selected by beauty contest, red-haired girl swimming the Hellespont, etc.). This mocks the Associated Press and sensationalist journalism's tendency toward increasingly outlandish reporting. **Bottom cartoon:** A domestic dispute where a man refuses to accompany his wife to the barber's, illustrating gender-role tensions in marriage.
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Hirep Man (from the city): Op Farmer: Aw—stick around. I'm going to quit! I can’t stand this awful silence. In a month or so the frogs’ll begin to croak over in the pond. The Millennium Comes to the A. P. Man ONDAY: The Prince of Wales clopes with the first girl to fly over the Atlantic and decides to spend his honeymoon in a Bellanca monoplane trying for the world’s en- durance record. Tuesday: The Queen of the May selected by the fair maids of Bryn Mawr tries for the flagpole-sitting record, choosing as her site a staff on the deck of the world’s fastest steamship trying to cross the At- lantic in four days. Wednesday: The red-haired girl bandit of Cincinnati is given the freedom of the city by Montpellier for swimming the Hellespont after firing at Mussolini with an authentic Chicago machine-gun. Thursday: The baby who swal- lowed four open safety-pins is made a member of the Our Gang Comedy Team and poses for a_ picture dancing the Varsity Drag with Cla- rence Chamberlin on ice skates. Friday: The man who ate eighty- four hot dogs declares under oath - that he planted the bombs in the New York Subway and is photo- graphed aquaplaning at one hundred miles an hour off Coral Gables. Saturday: A world-wide conven- tion of Self-Appointed Experts for Saving the S-4 meets at Houston, Texas, and carries the Democratic nomination for One-Eyed Connelly. Sunday: Lindbergh gets married. Samuel Grafton. Valentine to a Compan. ionate Wife Not we, my dear, may well dis. parage These mooted modern forms of mar. riage, For in our own estate we find Their innovations all combined. Our nuptial bond by stipulation Remains of limited duration: We said (and meant it) at the start Its term should be, “till Death os part.” Should “Trial Marriage” stir objec. tions When trials come in all connections? A trial marriage ours is, too, Although we count its trials few. As up the mountains, down the can- yons And through the world we've been companions, Who would not call our partnered state Distinctively companionate? Then since, with only mild correc tions, You've borne and bear my imperfec- tions, Accept, swect wedded love of mine, A grateful husband's Valentine. Arthur Guiterman. “No, woman, I will sot go with you to the barber's!” 4 [* 1 into time rus! the and Chr take I “We Dar as | elor to | par star whe up| phe inte stre the mil Sm ited lert old comicbooks.com