Life, 1929-03-08 · page 4 of 44
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This page contains **three distinct elements**: a Douglas automobile advertisement (left), a satirical dialogue titled "She Never Said a Word" (center), and fishing/sporting goods advertisements (right). The central cartoon depicts a married couple driving. The wife remains silent during a near-accident, resisting her impulse to backseat-drive. The humor targets **gender stereotypes of the 1920s**—specifically the nagging wife trope. The satire mocks both the wife's self-restraint and the husband's obliviousness. The dialogue emphasizes marital tension around automobile safety and domestic control, portraying the wife's silence as either admirable restraint or suppressed frustration—the joke's interpretation depends on one's perspective. This reflects period anxieties about women's roles in modernizing society.
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ublished Weekly by Lif She Never Said a Word Sue: I simply never say a word when I'm with anybody who's driving a car because I think there’s nothing more annoying than having somebody telling you what to do all the time when you're driving. Yeah—you're right. It’s the He: limit! Sue: I mean I think it just puts you all off. He: Yeah—you bet! Sue: GOSH, you came close to that truck, my dear! I was simply petrified! But I didn’t say anything because I thought you saw it! He: Yeah—I saw it all Thanks just the same. Sue: Do you see that car behind you? He: Yep—okay! Sue: I'm terribly sorry—I didn’t think you saw it because we were talking wildly! He: That's all right. Sue: You'd better shift now or you won’t make it and you'll have to change gears right in the middle of the hill. He: Yeah, I guess you're right, only I usually make this on high all right. Sue: That's what I always used to think, too; but you wait. You'll see you'll have to shift.... Yeah! GOSH, isn’t that a shame? You'd almost have made it if that can hadn’t gotten in the way but I mean that’s why I suggested shifting before because some- thing always gets in the way! He: Yep—you were right. Sue: Well, I’m terribly sorry I said anything about it because I think it’s awfully annoying when you're driving | to have someone telling you what to do all the time! He: Oh, not at all—I appreciate it. Sue: Some one wants to pass. He: Oh, to fell with ‘em! Sue: Gosh, I’m afraid you're fright- fully annoyed with me, aren't you really? Only I think we ought to speed up or slow down or something because this man in back of you is simply furious because you won't let him pass! Lloyd Mayer. right. The average filing system at the end of the first month. 598 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Fishing Begins Next Month! Any of the busiest men in the M country will be away from their desks. The season for rainbow, brown and brook trout opens around April Ist. Don’t put it off—find out the exact opening date of your favorite stream. Ask at the nearest sporting goods store—there’s a knowing game fisher- man in every one of them. Brook trout, in addition to being one of na- ture’s choicest morsels when it comes from the frying pan, is beyond chal- lenge Springtime's gamest fighter! You'll find them far upstream, in clean, unpolluted cold water. Take along hip boots—the game's so thrilling you'll never be content to stand on shore. Take along any of the Montague Fly Rods— the Manitou—$35; Red Wing—$25; Monto Trail—$2o; Flipline—$75; Fishkill—$12; Split switch—$8. And any of the following Montague Reels: Brook Trout—$4.50; Fox Lal; No §00—$2; Huron—$5; Columbia—$2.50. Other Equipment and Data The preference of most trout fishermen is for an enamel line, small to medium size. Hook: No’s, 10 to 14 “Model Perfcct.” Lures: flies, minnows, worms, grasshoppers. Best time of day: dawn or sunset; or any time just after a shower. Dark flies for bright days and early in the season; light flies for dark days and later on. Next Month in Salt Waters April, May and June are favorite months for the flashing, thrilling, zesty, two or three hour battles by which the Tarpon tests the skill of its would-be captor, and the efficiency of his rod and reel. Habitat: bays and inlets of Florida and Gult of Mexico, off Panama, etc. Bast times flood tide on moonlight nights. Best reds are Montague Trail Tarpon ($18); Max itew Tarpon ($35); and Red Wing Tarpon ($27.50) —mediam or heavy. Best reels: Mentague “Imperial” ($65); Montague “Tampa” and “Coronads” ($5.75 to $7.00). Also to be captured in salt water this month: si fish, bonefish, striped bass, and flounders, MONTAGUE ROD AND REEL COMRANY MONTAGUE erry Dmassacuusers Subscription, $5.00, Vol. 93, No. 2418, March 8, 1929. Eat'd S.A, ‘ork Post Office, wader act of March 3, 1879. Printed in U. Ent'd as 2nd Class Matter at, the Matter at the Post Ofice Dept. Canads.’ “Copyright 1929, Life Pub. Co. in U.S. England ‘and British ‘oasessions. P at 2nd Class Matter New York, June 8, 1883, at Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio. Ent'd as 2nd Clas: comicbooks.com