Life, 1928-09-21 · page 18 of 36
Life — September 21, 1928 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The page contains two main cartoons and several quoted observations. **Top cartoon**: Shows a man and woman in conversation near boxes labeled "DYNAMITE" and "DANGER," with the man saying "Stop me if you've heard this!" — a visual pun on the danger of repetitive, tedious conversation as explosive risk. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts a woman and child at what appears to be a polling place or civic registration. The child asks about "Emancipation," and the mother explains it means "all us colored folks kin vote—if we is Democrats." This satirizes restrictions on Black voting rights and the political conditions attached to voting access during this era of disenfranchisement. The page also includes aphoristic quotes on various social topics and a brief humor piece titled "Modern Methods" about conflict resolution through kissing.
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“Stop me if you've heard this!” Little Rambles with Serious Thinkers For my part, if I had to choose now between taking my ordinary human chance of disappearing from the planet ata normal age, or being given the alter- native of living five hundred years longer on earth, with the proviso that I must play golf every afternoon with congenial associates, I should gladly choose the latter.— William Lyon Phelps. When you hear people denounce the cen- sorship of moving pictures, plays and novels, you are safe in assuming that they have no children.—Robert Quillen. Some of the truest and noblest hearts in the world beat under shabby clothes. —Dorothy Dix. The world over it’s just the same. People who live in small towns are small-town people.—Sinclair Lewis. Philosophy is merely thought that has been thought out.—G. K. Chesterton. Bilge goes with politics. —H. L. Mencken. The meanest wastrel that ever walked the earth has at some time, perhaps always, had a mother to love him. —Sir Hall Caine. MODERN METHODS “I Hear Joc and his girl patched up their differences.” “Yeah, — they whoopee.” kissed and made Vorer: Do you think that marriage is a failure? Canoipate: Well, it’s hardly a success but it’s a noble experiment. POTS Results By Petrarch Il Wuen I was young and passional, With wisdom still to get, I acted most irrational About the girls I met. 1 wooed with smiles and flattery; With dignified adoring; I tried assault and battery When humble prayers proved boring, But all I earned was drollery, And snubs, and petty rages; They answered my cajolery With “dated up for ages.” But now I’ve learned duplicity: I never plague or bore them, Turn off my electricity And placidly ignore them! The change is scarce believable! They never hoot or scout me; And those most unachievable No more are prone to flout me! They do not carp and mock away And scoff at love I’m giving! They do not laugh a block away!..., They do not know I'm living. Jerome B. Barry. "honey Grove preereinrs “What dat ‘’Mancipation’ mean, Mammy?” “Dat means all us colored folks kin vote—if we is Democrats.” comicbooks.com