Life, 1928-10-05 · page 36 of 48
Life — October 5, 1928 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor anthology page featuring short jokes and comic strips from various publications, typical of Life's satirical format. The content includes: **Top comics**: A three-panel strip about tourists haggling with a French boatman over trip costs; he charges extra for "storm" service—satirizing both tourist naiveté and petty profiteering. **Short humor items** mock contemporary absurdities: - A sailor citing the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928 anti-war treaty) to avoid duty - A college student appropriating his father's belongings - A child interrupting parents during a thunderstorm - Newspaper social notices listing excessive names confusingly **Recurring themes**: marital deception, class humor (torture/servants), and working-class dialect humor typical of 1920s-30s Life magazine. The page reflects period concerns: disarmament treaties, modern inconveniences, and domestic/social comedy. The tone is lighthearted, drawn from international publications (French, British, Australian sources credited).
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Our Foolish “Fifty francs for the trip? H'm—it's too much; but my wife’s s0 anxious to go—'" LIFE “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” ontemporaries "What? A hundred francs? You said fifty.” “Yes—but there's a small extra charge for the storm."" <L'Iyreansictaxt (Panis). NO MORE WAR ¥ Theat is a story that a sailor, failing to return | to his battle cruiser on time, was apprehended in | citizen dress and dragged before his superior officer. “lL read about how the big nations had all signed that Kellogg treaty,"’ he explained, “and I just thought you wouldn't need me any more.""—New York Sun. NOW TO USE THE NEW “Son gone back to colleg “Yes, thank goodness. The way he's walked | off with my things all summer you would have thought I was his roommate.”” —Cincinnati Enquirer. CAR! | | A NIGHT OUT—PERHAPS “A meeting of the Mason Dodge will be held al on Thursday night in. the New Zealend Paper. Usrorruxatety most wives are up to the Ma- sonic Dodge.—Punch O Marariton, Marathon, what crimes are committed in thy name!—Detroit News. vite Motion Tie Barow (to chief torturer): And how is your new assistant doing? | ‘e's all right at a! Cuter Torrurer: Well, sir, simple job like flogging, but 'e ain't no use when it comes to a bit of fancy work on the rack or thumb-screws. —Loxpon Opinion. Bossy (coming into parents’ room during thunderstorm): I th-thonght I'd b-better c-come in, in case yryou were n-nervous. —Homonist (Loxpoy). INDISTINGUISHABLE Iy the talking movies The drama, we suppose, Will continue To be silent. —Arkansas Gazette, PARTLY ANONYMOUS “Henry Webers entertained Mr. and Mrs. Lynch and her mother and thei- son and wife and chil: dren and son and lady friend and a gentleman of “leveland and daughter and family of Garretts: ville".—Windsor item in Jeferron Gare'te. Tuy seem to have been all there, even though most of the names escaped Ye Scribe. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. VARIANT Tue pocror’s little daughter had strayed into his surgery, and was watching, wide-eyed, as he | tested the heart and lungs of a patient. Suddenly she spoke: “Getting any new stations, daddy?" —London Calling. Canpor in advertising, from the Wilmette “For Sale — Stradivarius violin, almost —Chicago Tribune. MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER “Wor, goin’ to marry Bert, and ‘im done five years in quod?"* "Oh, the ‘ound; ‘e told me it was only thee!” —Pearson's Weekly (London). Moronist: Shake hands, now, or I shall be very much hurt! Victim: Well, it's your flaming turn, ain't i —Butterin (SyoNt¥)- comicbooks.com