Life, 1928-06-21 · page 28 of 38
Life — June 21, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous anecdotes and jokes mocking contemporary society and human folly. The main cartoon depicts a hat-shop scene where a young woman rejects a hat, complaining it looks better on the display stand than on her head—satirizing poor consumer judgment or vanity. The surrounding text includes brief comedic items: a woman from Chicago refusing to live near steel mills after marriage; a youth's romantic confusion (listing multiple women's names in a phone booth); a wealthy college student presumed to be panhandling himself for tuition; and an Aberdeen story where a doctor learns his deceased friend's age only from his coffin's brass nameplate, mocking Scottish stinginess. Additional items mock California's newspaper-style textbooks, cheap housing advertisements, and general confusion about international affairs. The humor targets middle-class pretension, regional stereotypes (particularly Scottish frugality), and the absurdities of modern life in early 20th-century America.
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Our Foolis LIFE ontemporaries “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” “Well, it looked a lot chicker on the ‘at-stand than wot it does on your ‘ead.’ —Puxcn (Loxpon), sy peratission. | “1 wouldn't ‘ave that one, dear."" “What's the matter with it?" NOT THAT! He jests at Wales who never rode a saying to the young man to whom she is en- gaged—at least we can imagine it after passing through a number of towns near Chicago—"'l will be willing to live anywhere in the world with you after our marriage, with the exception of on the outskirts of a steel town."* —Detroit Free Press. TELEPHONIANA Asarory dilemma of unidentified youth, as re- corded on telephone booth wall: Florence Mother Mellie Marjorie Babe Babe Babe Babe Babe Babe Babe Babe Babe—Chicago Evening Post. FOR TEXTBOOKS, ETC. We haven't heard anything of that young man who started to college with $250,000 which he made in business, but we assume that, just to keep in the spirit of things, he sits down now and then and writes himself, asking for money. —New York Evening Post. Exist: Have you heard the story that's going around about Eunice? Grace: Heard it? Why, honey, I started it. —American Legion Monthly. The Bootlegger’s Watchdog. —Yare Recon. THE BRASS PLATE A New story from Aberdeen—or, rather, about Aberdeen; for I doubt if the Aberdonians really circulate these stories about themselves. A doctor and a dentist were intimate friends for many years, but neither knew the age of the other. (Aberdonians never give anything away.) At last the dentist died, and the doctor thought that he would now be able to ascertain his friend's age. He attended the funeral, approached the coffin, and looked at the brass plate. This is what he read: “Angus McLeod: Dentist. (Hours 10-4)."" —London Morning Post. CHICAGO PAPERS PLEASE COPY Now that California schoolbooks are to be written in newspaper style, we may expect a freer use of ‘tit is alleged’* in histories of the United States.—Spokane Spokesman-Review. SENTIMENT IN BUSINESS “A house for £25 down and balance weekly. Why pay rest?"—Advt. in o Suburban Paper. We sincerely hope this generous attitude will be taken up by the furniture firms. —Humorist (London). Personatty we don't understand what it’s all about in China, nor in this county, either.-Dallas News. From P ented farm ai opened countin; “One ght, another. “The 3 tour Never comicbooks.com