Life, 1928-06-07 · page 27 of 54
Life — June 7, 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **Upper cartoon** (signed Allister): A WWI-era military scene showing soldiers in a trench. The caption "Remember your Shakespeare, kid" suggests a soldier instructing a younger recruit to recall literary knowledge amid warfare—dark humor about the contrast between classical education and brutal combat reality. **Main article**: "The Chap That Invented Intelligence Tests Comes Home" mocks the then-popular intelligence testing movement by showing a husband using multiple-choice format answers to deflect his wife's marital complaints. Each of his responses offers absurd alternatives ("Lying in the gutter" vs. visiting sick friends; admitting to drinking vs. denying it). The satire targets how intelligence tests, a new scientific fad, reduce complex human situations to reductive checkboxes—suggesting the tests miss actual wisdom or character. **Lower cartoon** (signed Krargan): Depicts an Eskimo showing "antiques" to summer tourists—satirizing tourists' expectations that indigenous peoples exist as curiosities for entertainment rather than as modern people. The page reflects 1920s American anxieties about modernization, scientific methodology, and cultural tourism.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
moath to open up their Cartierville shack for the summer. eepaul Sise and family have quit the Mount Royal hotel to live in their swell home in Redpatl Place. The electrical business must be treating Paul pretty good these days. «Elwood Hosmer still hankers to be the first paying passenger to cross ‘from England in an airplane and will try again with Capt. Courtney this summer, weather permitting. If he quits at Greenly Island he can swim home as far as this cor- rsp'nd’nt is concerned. && The Royal Saint Lawrence Yacht Club is now open for the season. Yo, ho, and a bottle of rum! “Slim Lindbergh, Lone Eagle of the Air and World’s Champion Unconscious Lady-Killer, has been invited to visit town for the air show in July. Bob Minty of Palmer’s female fix-up emporium says the run on make-up outfits and dates for hair waves is pretty terrible for this time of year. Leslie Roberts. Detroit Pouce Commusstoner Ruttence says he has been tipped off that someone, prob- ably an outsider, is selling liquor in this town, An arrest may be expected any day now, he says. ***Russ Gore, our hustling reporter, be- came rich beyond the dreams of avarice lately when he inherited $15,000. Russ has received the old Spanish Prisoner beg- ging letter from about a dozen fellow newspaper men, but at this writing he is sill in solitary and exclusive possession of the Fifteen Grand. “Dr. Inches, the popular medico, has started off gunning for lions in Africa again. Ha, ha! Better be cautious, Doc! Weheard food is scarce there, and the fons are just wondering “what to do tll the doctor comes.” ***Anne Campbell had a poem accepted by a newspaper last week. © Our motto: Detroit—where Lire is worth living for.—Adot. “*You can hear the Fisher (body) boys hiogling their pockets for half a block since they did some lucky trading in General Motors stock. Those boys cer- uinly have more money than some people have hay, ***Lake boats on the “Honeymoon Line” to Niagara Falls are crowded to the rails, these days. It seems like everybody was “aking unto himself a rib” except ex- Governor Groesbeck. Elmer C. Adams. “Remember your Shakespeare, kid.” The Chap That Invented Intelli:| gence Tests Comes Home “Joun, where have you been all night?” “I can explain easily, darling. Check one: I have been—At the home of a sick friend.....Lying in the gutter..... Playing poker On a flight to Paris.” “John! You've been drinking!” “My dear, you're mistaken. Under- line the correct answer: I have—Drunk a quart of gin.....Taken a whiskey rub. ...+Had a flask broken over my head.” “I'm going right home to mother!" “Check the most appropriate: Your mother—Gives me a pain in the neck. ..+.Is a wonderful woman.....Is my favorite movie actress Is all wet.” “You're a fool!” “Underscore the correct answer: Un- u keep silent—I shall go to a hotel. ght.....Leap out the window.” 300d nigh “Choose one: I wish you—A_ good night's rest.....A Merry Christmas.” Dave Murray. les: Eskimo: Hey, Hi-ce-voo-ta, bring out the antiques—here come some summer tourists. comicbooks.com