Life, 1928-11-23 · page 28 of 36
Life — November 23, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor section collecting short jokes and quips from newspapers and magazines worldwide, mocking social absurdities of the era. Key items include: **"Peace Hath Her Victories"** — A joke about Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator. It speculates that had America entered WWI in 1917 (rather than 1917), they would have changed his German-sounding name. This mocks wartime anti-German sentiment and naming prejudices. **Mayor Jimmy Walker joke** — NYC's mayor reportedly claimed he didn't notice the Alps while vacationing in Europe, satirizing tourists who miss obvious landmarks or feign indifference to famous sights. **Various one-liners** — Include jokes about cooking disasters, advertising mishaps, and marital discord (the final Paris joke equating a wife with a carpet to be beaten). The cartoons illustrate selected jokes—correspondence lessons, a tiger surprising someone, a child misunderstanding "sacred" as "scared" white elephant. The overall tone mocks human foolishness: pretension, obliviousness, poor judgment, and domestic strife.
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“Have you ever had a lesson by correspondence?” “Yes—I never write to women now.”” ° —Loxpow Cattine. PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES Tu stax topic of conversation in the beer inns of Munich recently has centered upon the specu- lation as to what the American patriots would have changed Lindbergh's name to in 1917. rican Mercury Smaue: “As phony as the nicknames un- der the photos in a high school annual.” —Detroit News. Thiostas A. Evison is said to be at work perfecting a mechanical stenographer. He is getting old.—New York Evening Post. “John, have you a pocket-knife with you?” “Certainly, sir.” “Well, just carve two little hearts transfixed by an arrow on this tree here,”" —Der Wane Jacos (BERLIN). “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” ANOTHER SKYLINE Traveters who return from Europe and are prompted to rave over sights and scenes that escaped their attention are earnestly urged to take a leaf from the guide book of James J. | Walker, Mayor of New York. On his vacation abroad last year, having jour- neyed from Paris to Rome, he was asked what he thought of the Alps. “I didn’t notice them,"* Jimmy is reported to have replied.—Panorama. JUST-SO STORY “I was terrified.....There was the tiger crouch- ing, ready to bounce.""—Skort Story. Tue prayrut fellow only wanted to have a game.—Humorist (London), Caxpor in advertising, from the La Salle (Ill) Post-Tribune: “If you think your cooking is bad, try ours.""—Chicago Tribune. “And would you believe it, eight ni 1 couldn't play a note." —Wrsr Coaster (Los Avortss), ago “Tue sturr we made last week is ready bottle. What shall we label it?"* : “Old: Methuselah.” ** Louisville Courier-Journal. ay “Ssh! Stk, Rover! Go nd fetch it!” —Lr Moxve Cotoxtat (Panis). LITERAL 12ZY Lire Izzy is a funny And eccentric sort of waif; Swallowed all his sister's money— Said that he was playing safe. —Country Gentleman, WHITE ELEPHANTS “Faruer,’’ said a small boy, “I was just read- ing in my picture book an interesting story about the scared white elephant of Siam." “The what white elephant?” “'Scared."" “You mean ‘sacred,’ don't you?” “Is that what it is? I thought it was scared be- cause it looks so pale in the picture.” —Youngstown Telegram. Appatune effect of Book Row’s influence on our sedate Los Angeles merchants as ob- served in a tailor's window on Sixth Street: “Come In and Browse!"* —West Coaster (Los Angeles). room with young journal. “Wantep—Occupant for private M. H. married couple.”"—Y. Just the place to live a life of your own, —New Yorker. "Hey! You've no right to be beating your carpet after nine o'clock.” ‘ “But, officer, it's not @ carpet—it's my wife: —Le Rine (Paris). comicbooks.com