Life, 1928-04-05 · page 4 of 59
Life — April 5, 1928 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising rather than political satire**. The dominant content is a Canadian National Railway vacation advertisement promoting "Vacation in the Northland" with travel copy and scenic photographs of Ontario wilderness, fishing, and mountain landscapes. The only narrative content—"The Long, Long Trail" and "If It Wasn't, It Should Have Been"—appears to be **sentimental fiction rather than satire**. The first depicts an emotional parting between old friends; the second humorously recounts a minor mishap involving overinsurance claims. No political figures, caricatures, or satirical commentary are evident. The page represents typical 1920s Life magazine: mixing travel promotion with light domestic humor for middle-class readers.
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CANADIAN NATIONAL—TO OME NORTH where pine-scented breezes blow. Where golf, bathing, fish- ing, boating and other outdoor sports can be enjoyed at their best. Here, by the sea, in the mountains or in lakedotted forests Canada offers you the vacation of a lifetime. ‘The PROVINCES BY THE SEA. Come to onc of the delightful woodland and seashore resorts which abound in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island— Canada’s Provinces by the Sea. See OLD QUEBEC with its landmarks of the ancient French regime, its time-honored customs and old-world atmosphere. Com- bine a seaside and woodland vacation at one of the many splendid resorts along the Lower St. Lawrence. The HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO offer excellent fishing in Timagami, Nipigon or Algonquin Park Forest Reserves with a wide choice of delightful lake and forest havens at Kawartha Lakes, Muskoka Lakes, Lake of Bays, 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay or the shores of blue Lake Huron. MINAKI on the Winnipeg River calls the lover of golf and fishing. Exceptional hotel accommodation at Minaki Lodge, rates $5.00 a day up, American Plan. JASPER NATIONAL PARK — here you can golf, ride, hike, motor, climb, amid 5300 square miles of Canadian Rocky Mountain magnificence. Stop at Jasper Park Lodge— rates $7.50 aday up, American Plan, accom- modation for 450 guests. Open May 21st to Sept. 30th. Jasper Golf Week, Sept. 8th to Sept. 15th. Wonderful opportunities for sportsmen in Canada's teeming lakes and rivers and in her virgin forests. Mail the coupon for booklet descriptive of Canada’s vacation lands. EVERYWHERE IN CANADA e Natonal Park in the Car nadian The Highlands of Ontario Along the sea coast of the Maritime Provinces [[ANADIAN NATIONAL CIhe Largest Railway System_in America OFFICES nosTox PRItaDELrnta S33 Washington St. 1500 Chestnut St ‘ALO S01 Prankitn Trust Birt nm St. ide. dams St. caxcinxatt 9B. 4th St bute Terminal Bldg. VELAND 9:8 Onton Trust Bide. Bank Bide, ST. PAUL 83 East FYUn Svreet SAN FRANCISCO, 689 Market St. eal with that funny hat on! | a...Ouch! The Long, Long Trail “TEAR old pal,” he said, his y D* filled with heartbreak, ae been together a long time. You're not so glossy as you used to be and you're kind of unsteady on your pins —just wore out. But I hate to get rid of you—’” He stretched out his hand in a rough pat of masculine affection, hitched up his leather chaps and cleared his throat as he looked away, his keen eyes winking suggestively. ‘Yes, I've got to let you go,” he mused. “You've come to the end of your rope, old pal. But you and I have had some great times together, we shore have. We've rid- den into the clean dawn, high in the clean Western Hills. We've circled around the restless herd, singing clean cowboy songs to quict ‘em, We've gone tearing after the sheriff when the rustlers were out and we've saved the clean womanhood of the West from lots of fates worse than death! Yes, we've had great times together—I feel like a dog, letting you go where maybe they won't treat you well, I'd keep you if I could— but you're too old—I'll never forget you, old pal. It'll be a long time before I get another as fast as you—" He turned away with a last lingering stroke of the hand. A bell tinkled. “So long,” he chok think of you when I'm riding the mesa, when the clean sun « up above the clean cactus, I'll—” He could speak no more, With a dry sob that seemed to tear his very be ing, Mr. Zane Grey turned his worn- out typewriter over to the waiting junk-man....Then he dashed a manly tear from his eye, vaulted into the seat in front of his new Peruna Portable, inserted a fresh charge of paper and thundered Westward into the setting sun in a cloud of banana oil. N. F. If It Wasn't, It Should Have Been Y, listen, this is a kick: Tom just asked me where I'd been for a week back. And I says, ‘To a hospital,’ and he says, ‘What for? and I says, ‘Fora weak back!’ That was a kick, wasn’t it? And he says, ‘How did you get that way?’ and I says, ‘From carrying too much in surance!’ Say, wasn’t that a kick, thoagh? That Tom's a kick, isn't he? Look at him standing over there Isn't that a kick? And the way that trick coat fits him! That's a kick, isn't it? Everything about that guy is Hey! ??1Z"&!-!??e! What th’ gold- -rimmed Gehenna did you do then? “That was a kick, wasn’t it?” c. J. LIFE: Published Weekly by Life Publishing Com) Subscription, $5.00, Vol. 91, No. 2370. April 5, Matter at the Post , 598 Madison Ent'd as 2nd Office Dept., Canada, ‘Ave., New York, N.Y. Charles Dana Gil nd Clase Matter, June 8, 1883, at New York Copyright Presidest; Lanshorne Oitee Office, under act of BM 1928, Life Pub, Co., in U.S, England and British Secretary and Treasurer; R. E Sher wood, Edits. 3, 1879. Piola ee Ent’d as 2ad Ch ‘Possessions. comicbooks.com