Life, 1928-09-21 · page 9 of 36
Life — September 21, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate comic illustrations satirizing everyday social situations. The top cartoons mock familiar encounters: "Hello there, Sam, old boy—watcha doin' these days?" depicts a contrived street greeting, while "Studyin' jiu-jitsu!" shows a man being thrown by his opponent, suggesting the speaker was using martial arts as an excuse for his bruised appearance. The larger middle cartoon titled "Aw'right, Dr. Jekyll, pay up or I'll take it out of your Hyde" references Robert Louis Stevenson's *Jekyll and Hyde* novel. It depicts what appears to be a debt collector confronting a man, with the caption making a pun: the debtor's "other side" (Hyde) will be violent if payment isn't made. The page concludes with a brief poem "Facts" and a visual riddle question about distinguishing genders in bathing attire—reflecting early 20th-century fashion ambiguity concerns.
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yd MR. EVANS Tue Man Win tHe Iron Grip Gets His “Hello there, Sam, old boy—watcha doin’ these days?” steadily without a murmur. Some people indeed do not know when they are in good fortune, and it would seem to me that citizens of Chicago do have graver things to be concerned about than the price of dairy products. To Mary Lowe's for luncheon, finding her all a-twitter at having overturned her last bottle of spe- cal medicine and spilled so much that the atomizer would not reach the re- mainder, but Bill Fanshawe did luckily “Studyin’ jiu-jitsu!” bethink himself of the fable about the bira! Borgias a few points. Driving through with the ineffective beak, so she did break her strand of carnelians and drop enough of the stones into the bottle to raise the liquid to the requisite height. During the meal someone did tell of an acquaintance who had a small rug placed on a slippery floor at the foot of every flight of stairs in his house whenever his mother-in-law came to visit, and I could not but feel that he might have given the “Aw’right, Dr. Jekyll, pay up or I'll take it out of your Hyde.” the town subsequently and pointing out this and that to some strangers who asked for enlightenment, I was minded of Judge Blank trom home, who, emerging from a doorway whilst on a visit to Washing- ton, found himself a ballyhooer’s target as follows: “On the left is the home of the Honorable Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives, but that ain’t him coming down the steps!” Din- ner at home of cold soup, lake bass, sweet- breads sauté, saddle of lamb, vegetables and peach sherbet, all very fine, and me- thinks it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a sybarite to diet whilst on a visit. Baird Leonard. Facts Facts are the flies In the ointment of life; Facts are the things You must tell to your wife; Facts are the flaws In our roseate schemes; Facts are the gongs That are death to our dreams. Facts are the anchors That steady our acts— Oh, for existence Without any facts! Arthur L, Lippmann. QUESTION “Say, look over there.” “Well?” “Is that a man in a bathing suit or is ita girl in a dress?” comicbooks.com