Life, 1928-03-15 · page 28 of 34
Life — March 15, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief humorous anecdotes and jokes from newspapers worldwide, framed as examples of human foolishness. The cartoons illustrate selected stories: **Top cartoon**: A wife confronts her husband after he's hit someone with a car, asking why he let the victim "do that" — satirizing absurd logic or blame-shifting. **Left cartoons**: Include a couple falling/tumbling (illustrating a domestic mishap story) and a girl refusing kitchen chores because it's too warm — mocking illogical excuses. **Right cartoons**: Show comedic physical situations—a woman in a night club and a man with a cello, illustrating absurdist scenarios. The jokes themselves mock human irrationality: a guide's family history of insanity, a rich man's obliviousness during blizzards, and a Scotch thief exploiting "sanctuary" laws. The page's title suggests these are contemporary follies worth ridiculing through international humor.
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Guide: 1 KNow THIS cLinD CAN BE Do Tourist: 1 supvo: You've OFTEN DONE IT BEFORE? Guide: xo, Tins 18 THIS CHIcKEN’s FIRST TIME, BUT MY DADDY DID IT THE DAY HE BROKE OUT OF THE ASYLUM. —Dublin Opinion. The Blessings of Ignorance Frarau as we of our bedroom windows before retiring, we are ri minded of this one, written by the Bert Leston ‘Taylor of the Chicago Tribune: As the crowd was coming out of a Chicago theatre into a fierce blizzard a u remarked to his wife: “The Lord help the rich on a night like this. The poor can sleep with their windows closed."—Louiscille Times. Bu He is Jis Ye disappointment. peculiar chap. and as hard to like as a Cincinnati Enquirer. THE GIRL WHO DIBN’T WANT TO HELP HER MOTHER BECAUSE IT WAS TOO WARM IN THE KITCHEN. —Séndagsnisse-Striz (Stockholm) Wife: ou, cronce! WHAT LID YOU WANT TO LET HIM DO THAT FOR? . —Humorist (London). “Yer, it's a very quiet town,” admitted the old settler, “A feller fainted in the post-office revolving door last week and they found him this morning.” —Detroit News. “ow w oF REDUCING, BET Ww) PATTER, THE ONLY THING THAT HELP CS WOULD BE A New wortD war.” —Kasper (Stockholm). MIGHT Winsted Paper, Please Copy A roan was found alive in ‘Texas the other day after I been buried in a cornerstone thirty-one years. It will now be tried out at a performance of “Strange Interlude. New York Sun, UNCLE TOM’s CABIN —Rensselaer Pup. But Do You Have to Tell It Here? ‘Tey tell it in Edinburgh. A. Scotch thief, pursued by the police, suddenly inspired, dashed into a convenient bank. ‘The police followed. “Sanctuary, sanctu- ary!” bellowed the thief, and the police departed, foiled and dumfounded. —Chicago Tribune. The Major (in night club): savuTixo WITH THE WRONG HAND—THREE DAYS x. ptt! —Fliegende Blatter (Munich). Philanthropy in the Day’s News Tur world grows kind to certain slaves, I note with pleasure unconcealed. A picture actress nobly saves A poet from the potters’ field. —L. H. R., in New York Times. comicbooks.com