Life, 1929-08-02 · page 11 of 40
Life — August 2, 1929 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor column featuring observations about everyday life and two cartoon illustrations. **Top cartoon:** A reporter interviews a man named Mr. Selfmade at an office desk, asking "Are you a college man, Mr. Selfmade?" The punchline: "When you say that, smile!" — mocking self-made men who are defensive or falsely proud about lacking formal education. **Bottom cartoon:** A family picnic scene where a guest tells the host (Jones), "Well, Jones, I gotta hand it to you, you certainly know how to throw a picnic." The humor appears to reference messiness or chaos at the gathering, though details are unclear from the image alone. The left column contains brief satirical observations about laziness, runaway horses, airplane design, and other mundane topics, typical of Life's lighthearted social commentary style.
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It Sims To Me Sometimes I sit and worry about how lazy |am. And then I think of how tired I might be if I were not so lazy. Runaway horses are headed off by policemen, but there’s no known way to stop a woman who starts out ahead of the usher down a dark theatre aisle. If a plane expects to land on water, it has pontoons. If it expects to land in a field, it has wheels. But a pedes- trian has only the seat of his trousers. Some scientist would help humanity by perfecting a hand-lotion that would give the best results when diluted with warm water containing the breakfast dishes. Wonder if an auto mechanic keeps the towel-rack in his bath-room filled with clean cushion-covers to wipe his hands on? Sometimes I wish grapes grew as large as watermelons, And then 1 think of the trouble it would be to carry home a bunch. It would be fun to know what it would have been if the man who dis- covered asparagus had discovered something else instead. Why is it that a litle wax rubbed on a man’s moustache convinces him that he knows all about women? —Tom Sims. Csr, @ Qa-DF — Reporter: Are you a college : man, Mr. Selfmade? “When you say that, smile!” Gurst: Well, Jones, I gotta hand it to you, you certainly know how to throw a picnic. comicbooks.com