Life, 1929-04-26 · page 6 of 36
Life — April 26, 1929 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains three separate pieces of humor: **Top cartoon**: Shows a sailor discovering a note in a bottle. The joke plays on the cliché of messages in bottles, suggesting mundane rather than romantic content. **"Love Song"**: A humorous poem by a telephone operator expressing romantic longing in exaggerated, flowery language—satirizing overwrought sentimentality and the operator's access to private conversations. **Bottom cartoon**: A domestic scene where a woman threatens her husband with divorce over his consumption of liquor at bridge parties. It satirizes marital conflict over alcohol use and social drinking habits—likely referencing Prohibition-era tensions (when alcohol was legally restricted but socially consumed). The overall page mocks romantic pretension, workplace gossip, and domestic discord through humor typical of 1920s American satire.
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Buiorro: Maybe there's a note in it. Love Song (By Telephone Operator No. 000.) ‘Twould be well nigh divi-yun, If I could e’er be thi-yun, And thou, dear, wholly mi-yun, From all conventions fr-r-r-ce. I love thee more and mower, Thy footsteps I adower, Beyond all life befower, In ultimate degr-r-r-ce. I could not long survi-uve If thou were not ali-uve; I would most strongly stri-uve To cross the river Styx-s-s. Thy pleasure I await-tuh, So be thou not too late-tuh To keep our little date-tuh, Or thou and I will mix-s-s. F. F. H. Nothing is more enthusiastic, spon- taneous and unhampered by conven- tions than a tube of tooth-paste erupt- ing from the wrong end. Then there is the Scotchman who devised a new system for saving bath towels. He spreads tacks on the bath- room floor so that when the bather climbs out of the tub he will be kept jumping around until he gets dry. Arc Optimist: The chap who joined the Hollywood fire department in the hope of rescuing Clara Bow. Motorist’s Version “Don’t sell the ole homestead, Grand. mother—turn the lousy barn into a hot-dog stand!” “Have you heard the new ‘High Water’ song?” “Whazzat?” “High Water be Bad.” Every now and then we read about some captain of industry who still has the first dollar that he made; and we sometimes wonder if there are any women in the country who still have their original husbands. “What is butter Scotch?” “Oleomargarine.” Tim—Aren't you going to invite your room mate to your wedding? Jim—No, he’s only got one dress suit. “Gladys, if you don't stop taking my very best liquor for your old bridge parties, there’s going to be a divorce in the family! comicbooks.com