Life, 1928-05-24 · page 14 of 38
Life — May 24, 1928 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three unrelated humorous pieces typical of Life's satirical format: 1. **"The Elephant and the Turtle"** — An Aesop's fable adaptation about an elephant seeking a turtle's medical advice for a headache. The moral criticizes false friendship and betrayal, ending when the elephant breaks the turtle's shell in anger. 2. **Top cartoon "Oh, Mother! Look! Horses!"** — Shows a child spotting horse-drawn wagons while riding in a modern automobile, satirizing rapid technological change and the displacement of horses by cars—a timely reference to early 20th-century motorization. 3. **"The Sagacious Lover"** and brief humor pieces — Generic romantic and domestic comedy sketches common to the era. These represent Life's mix of moral fables, social observation about modernity, and lighthearted domestic humor.
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on “Oh, Mother! Look! Horses!” The Elephant and the Turtle (After the Manner of Aesop) Tue elephant was sitting rocking him- self gently back and forth, holding his trunk to his troubled brow; for the ele- phant was suffering from a headache—a dire elephant headache! A turtle, out for his morning stroll, met the elephant and, seeing him in trouble, asked him what was the matter. The elephant told him that his head was in great pain, and the turtle said to the elephant: “All right; I know just the very medicine that will cure it in- stantly—I'll go right down town and get it for you.” So the turtle crawled off while the clephant sat rocking himself, all the while heaping great blessings on his noble friend the turtle, The elephant waited all day and the turtle never returned—all the next day and the next and the next, until he had waited a week, and then, consumed with a great wrath against the turtle, he broke forth into loud denunciations. “You have proved yourself the false friend I always thought you! I have ever suspected you of cruelty and faithlessness.” Hardly had these words left the cle- phant’s mouth when there was a slight rustle in the bushes and the turtle his head out, and said indignantly: “Just for that I won't go!” Cuicaco has adopted Daylight Saving time. The darkness, of course, was spoiling their aim. “Don't you believe the Flaming Youth type of college student “No; flunking.’ assing?” Piano Man: How's business? Scissors Grinver: Fine! I've never seeo things so dull. ° Exton rubber boots. oT the Ce week. #8Joh Elks, 2 made | @& Ha ments Chauce from ( oe Kenne up int Joe is = : Gotha: The Sagacious Lover evel WHEN we two parted chestr In anger and tears, deficit Half broken-hearted on a | To sever for years, encour Dazed by our sorrow, ***Po We failed to recall the pe We'll meet tomorrow Lincol At somebody's ball. ing all Too quickly we spoke: See Sai goodbye gee long. made Now Time has its joke, Ed @ And we're both in the wrong. jects t If I should meet thee, we if After eight hours, for it How should I greet thee? —I'd better bring flowers. Norman R. Jaffray. AN ARTIST IN THE FAMILY Our Trap-DrumMer’s Wire (to small son): Don't run into the parlor, now, Egbert— your father’s doing his home work in there. Tomorrow he has to make a noi like a rainbow with a bluebird on it, and he's very irritable this evening. tival ican this sc have | sea oak: “Rigo well-k Metre the n: it has comicbooks.com