Life, 1928-10-26 · page 34 of 40
Life — October 26, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Embarrassing Moments"** (top cartoon): A husband awkwardly faces a customs officer who has discovered silk stockings in his pocket—implying he was smuggling them or hiding them from his wife. The joke plays on marital embarrassment and 1920s-era anxiety about luxury goods and infidelity. 2. **"In Keeping"** (middle section): A humorous poem satirizing a newspaper trend where servant uniforms were being color-coordinated with household furniture. The piece mocks this by imagining absurd job listings where servants themselves must physically match furniture styles (a tall maid for "Hepplewhite," a bow-legged valet for "Queen Anne" furniture). 3. **"Ask Ma—She Knows"** (bottom): A advice column discussing how modern youth lack respect, contrasting old insults ("my old man can lick yours") with new ones where children insult each other's mothers instead. The page also includes charity notices for Life's Fresh Air Fund (sending poor city children to the country) and a Dandruff remedy advertisement.
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Cee ne ee nn nn nn EE ee EMBARRASSING MOMENTS When you’ve told the customs officer you have nothing to declare and he pulls a pair of your wife’s silk stockings out of your pocket...be nonchalant...Lighta Murad. v7 IN KEEPING “The latest idea is for servants’ uniforms to match the general color scheme of the house.” —Daily Paper. As servants’ uniforms, it seems, Must tone with houschold color-schemes, This notion might be far extended, Minions with furniture be blended: Advertisements to make this clear, Worded as follows, would appear— “*Housemaid Required. Good linen-mender, Second of 2. She must be slender, Extremely tall and quite upright. The furniture is Hepplewhite.""— **Footman. Experienced in carving, When shooting-guests are well-nigh starving. For Grinling Gibbons dining-room And Decorative (Adam) Groom."'— “As Valet. Soldier by profession, Ex-cavalry. Must have discretion And be a sturdy, bow-legged man, . To match the furniture, Queen Anne."’— “*A Butler. Must be old and mellow, A graceful, well-constructed fellow, Reliable, who will not fail. Date, Sheraton and Chippendale.""— i OP. Lorillard Co., 2 | Est. 1360 And yet advertisements at present Are not so true to type nor pleasant. They run like this—"Plain Cook Required, Maids to do work when she feels tired; She need not be an early riser. Wireless and car and ‘televisor," Piano. Outings every day If only, only she will stay!"* —Leslie M. Oyler, in the Bystander (London). ASK MA—SHE KNOWS A errer from a young mother to the Chicago | Tribune shows how the youth of Chicago have Lire’s Fresh Air Fund Lara's Farstt Ain Funo has been in operation for the past forty-one years. In that time it hy expended $419,278.00 and has given a hep holiday in the country to 51,000 poor city ch. dren, Twenty dollars, approximately, pays for @ holiday. for some poor child frock the salir city streets. Won't you help? Contributions (which are acknowledged ig Lire about four weeks after their receipt) should be made payable to Live's Fres Ain Foo, end sent to 598 Madison Avenue, New York. Previously acknowledged Miss Eleanor Vibbert Conn. .... . In loving memory of M. RL her baby, M. C. C + $39,485 oss o and of “ ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Live acknowledges with gratitude receipt at Camps of the following, donations; tom AL M. Biety, Saranac, Md.; Mr 8. hoes, clothing and Washington, D, C.; H. E. R.. Clark, Annapolis, ham Manor,” N.¥.;) Mrs Center Harbor, H.; Mrs. J Butte, Mont nd Mrs. Sumner T. Haywant Newark, N. M. Hill, Remsenbarg. LL: Horace Mann School, New York City; Mus Bild McCullough, innati; Mrs. D. B. Ninde, X. Hi; Miss Hazel Nelson, Brooklyn ith, Jefferson, Wis.; Mrs.” W Conn.; Rosemary Anne & HARMLESS Cant, six years old, was standing near front steps talking to three other children, wha a large dog came near them. All the childra became frightened. “Don't be scared," Carl told them, “He ast bite you, ‘cause he has a license around bs neck!""—Baltimore Evening Sun. progressed in a generation or two: “As to the retort courteous to the boast, ‘My old man can lick yours,’ the newer version used by my son in argument with the son of a very new neighbor might be employed—namely: ‘My mother can lick your mother.’ "* —Kansas City Star. A wortn’s record is claimed by an un- skilled Detroit man who recently took an auto- mobile apart in 30 seconds at a grade crossing. —Detroit News. ma | ~ | S caus lan ts of w disec Ss with Tr 4 ane | over They took DANDRUFF | = cM d A Sure Way to End It Be There is one sure way that never fails to fecal move dandruff completely, and that is tod it. Then you destroy it entirely. To do ts Peopl just apply a little Liquid Arvon at nightbels Co Tetiring; use enough to moisten the scalp =! ing li rub it in gently with the finger tips. Erer By morning, most, if not all, of your dase dso t willbe gone, and two or three more app ew will completely dissolve and entirely devi why, every single sign and trace of it, no matter broug much dandruff you may have. Dit You will find, too, that all i will stop instantly and your lossy, silky and ‘soft, and Seed times better. You ean get Liquid Arvon at any drog #% and a four ounce bottle is all you will need | te simple remedy has never been knows of thee hair will be lestroa look and feel #4 comicbooks.com