Life, 1928-03-01 · page 15 of 42
Life — March 1, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows a tramp asking a lady for food after three days without eating. Her response—that she once felt desperate but got over it—mocks the wealthy's dismissal of poverty as a temporary condition rather than systemic hardship. The satire critiques callous attitudes toward the poor. **"Heroines That Might Have Been":** A humorous article listing historical female explorers and adventurers with exaggerated, tongue-in-cheek accounts. Examples include Columbus's daughter "discovering America" and a woman conquering Mexico. The piece satirizes how history overlooks or reimagines women's actual achievements, presenting fictional "what-ifs" to highlight this erasure. **Bottom Cartoon:** "The Chiropractor Works on the India-Rubber Man" depicts someone being stretched/manipulated on a treatment table—satirizing the then-popular chiropractic profession as pseudoscientific quackery.
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Tue Trame: Mum, I'm desperate. Tue Lavy (who has been on a diet): Nonsense! I haven't eaten for three days. I felt the same way myself at first. Heroines That Might Have Been CT. 12, 1492.—Miss Christina Columbus discovered America at 9 o'clock this morning. Her first act upon attaining the virgin soil of a new world was to dive into her vanity case and touch up her win- some Cupid’s-bow mouth, whereupon she inquired nonchalantly of her trusty second lieutenant at her el- bow: “Pardon me, mate, but are my lips on straight?” March 17, 1519.—At 4 p. a. this evening Miss Inez De Soto beached upon a new and fragrant peninsula of the North American Continent. So strongly did the sweet-scented flowers of this hitherto uncharted territory remind Miss De Soto of Tre Crirorractor Works on THE INpiA-RusseR MAN. her favorite toilet water that she de- cidéd on the spot to call the land Florida. July 4, 1513.—Miss Gertrude Balboa stood silent upon a peak in Popocatepetl, gazing out over the wondrous waste of waters shortly to be known as the Pacific Ocean. “Cute!” she cried, clapping her hands ecstatically. “Adorable, simply stunning!" Then, walking down the peak to kneel at the ocean’s edge, Miss Balboa gazed a long time at her own reflection in the calm mir- ror-like sea. ‘And it can hardly be denied,” she added coyly, “that I’m looking rather fetching myself!” April 1, 1521—Miss Miranda Cortez, Spain’s most redoubtable and stylish stout, made her triumphal en- try into Mexico City at 2:15 p. mM. this afternoon. Upon her arrival she promptly powdered her nose, called for a scented cigarette, and claimed all the land conquered in the name of Spain, Cyril B. Egan. comicbooks.com