Life, 1928-09-28 · page 15 of 36
Life — September 28, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two main cartoons satirizing American social life and business culture. The **upper cartoon** depicts a porter at a train station (Junction City) offering services to passengers, capturing early 20th-century working-class vernacular and the casual racism of that era in his dialect speech. The **lower cartoon** appears to illustrate a domestic scene where a wife explains to her husband that a casual remark of his inspired the plot of his "new thriller" (likely a published work). This satirizes how writers mine personal life and marital moments for creative material. The accompanying text includes various witty aphorisms attributed to named figures, mocking bachelors, government regulation, and romantic conventions typical of Life's satirical humor tradition.
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Little Rambles with Scrious | Thinkers Ler there be light. The light of sexual love, shameless and candor-white and beautifully free. —Dr. Samuel D. Schmalhausen. You young men who are smoking will never be successful in business. The very fact that you are smoking cigarettes is a dear indication that you are lazy. —Roger W. Babson. Zechere green eggbrooms. What named blautoothdmand is you who stares? Gugurtha! Gugurtha! He has becco of wild hindigan. Ho, he hath hornhide! —James Joyce. The Government can padlock a home just as casily as it can a soft drink parlor or hotel—Andrew Volstead. All great cynics are bachelors, without experience of love.—Robert Quillen. There is a true story in everyone's life. —Bernarr Macfadden. Asa matter of fact, a woman's passion Porter: We'se pullin’ into Junction City now, suh, an’ if you needs anything during yo’ for writing love letters can only be com-| visit, suh, jes’ phone mah brother, Main 2682, an’ he'll fix you up wid de best stuff in pared with a drunkard's thirst for drink. dis man's town. —Dorothy Dix. The wind blows when it does blow. Apvice to young brides: Don’t put] The Mild Business Executive —Sherwood Anderson. all your eggs in one biscuit. i Returns from a Prizefght Stakes hands with business associate in office lobby and then hands him quick left jab to the eye. Dances lightly into elevator. Clips the boy with a left hook to the chin and is surprised when boy catches him with a suff counter to the kidneys, but laughs it off. Trips getting out of elevator and lands on chin. Stays on floor, while clock tolls nine, then jumps to his fect and through office door. Misses long right hook at office boy and. falls into clinch with stenographer. Latter pushes him out of clinch into waste asket. Dances through door to private office and drops back in chair, head leaning far back and arms hanging by sides. Pulls belt away and breathes hard, munching orange. Bernard Teran. MILITANT “Is your friend Tompkins a Repub- lican?” “Yeh, strong as they come. Fact is, he told me yesterday that that Buick he “Honestly, my dear, it was just a casual remark of mine that gave Rex the plot for his bought last spring gives him only twelve new thriller.” miles per gallon.” comicbooks.com