Life, 1928-12-21 · page 3 of 36
Life — December 21, 1928 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Houdaille shock absorber advertisement that occupies roughly two-thirds of the page. The ad uses the phrase "Words made obsolete all former ideas of riding comfort" to promote Houdaille's "hydraulic double-acting" shock absorbers for automobiles. It includes technical specifications and claims these absorbers were tested over years and used by major car manufacturers. The left column contains unrelated editorial content: a romantic short story ("The Girl Who Broke My Heart"), a humorous poem about starfish, and brief notes about inventors and inventors' failures. This is a typical **1920s-era Life magazine layout** mixing entertainment content with full-page commercial advertisements—not political commentary or satire.
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“The Girl Who Broke My sue didn't pierce my very being with ) her strange, wonderful eyes and then melt into the mysterious Singapore ba- nar crowd, never to be seen again..... She didn’t fan into flame those deeper feelings which every man who is a man at all has toward a good woman, only to tell me at the last that she had consecrated her life to the enforcement of Prohibition and would never marry again She didn’t fascinate me with her low, sensuous beauty until all that was bestial in my nate was thoroughly aroused and ft my dependent family and shame- il scopted a position Ps furnaceman! HYDRAULIC in her household She didn’t marry me and then carry on an open, cial affair wi our Scout Master, while my whole parched sal ied sioud for lore DOUBLE . ~ But she did slow down suddenly to peer into an Antiquee Shoppee window when I was just behind her going forty- five miles an hour! made obsolete all former ideas of riding comfort HOUDAILLE ~ ACTING Heman Fay, Jr. On Interviewing a Starfish Constver the echinoderm. Do not confuse him with the worm Echinococcus taenia. ‘The latter is a parasite, The first an independent wight, Though not inclined to mania: A creature pleasanter than most, Which might be served on buttered toast, . a Though I would never eat one. << His exoskeleton is set ~ . . With little spines; and if, as yet, pec anime pioneered and perfected the double.acting You have not chanced to meet one, ydraulic shock absorber. Now thousands of critical car owners and exacting engineers specify Houdailles. For Houd- ailles are not in the experimental stage but have been tried and tested over a period of years. Hydraulic—their resistance is always in proportion to the speed of Go buy yourself a diving suit With rubber shirt and leaden boot And walk into the ocean, Where you may safely interview The starfish. He will welcome you With visible emotion. But if you chance to represent A tabloid, it is time misspent. He'll peer from out the bowlders And say, in accents strict and formal, “My sex-life is completely normal,” And turn his five cold shoulders. A. K.L. MAN FAILURE “Wry don't some of our celebrated inventors §t up an improvement on inspectors? All great calamities on land or sea, all bank failures, col- lipsin’ the-aters, faulty grandstands, holocausts, everthing ‘cept tornadoes, have been traced cirectly ¢° inspectors that didn’ inspect."* —Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News. Ir takes about twenty years of hard work to succeed and you have to work hard for about Sfty years if you fail.—Milwaukee Journal. UVE: Published Weekly by Life Publishing Company, 608 Madison A Sev Yar Post Ode, ued sat ot Marte 190 Woes BURA! Spring movement. Precision-built of the strongest steels, no relief valves are necessary to relieve high pressures. Houdailles do not lose their effectiveness on rough roads, Double-A ctin, ike your car springs, Houdailles prevent “striking bottom” and kill recoil before it starts! Connected by a steel arm, they move as fast as your springs. Hydraulic.,.Double-acting...smoother riding...higher speeds... Houdaille performance justifies their cost. That is the verdict of engineers who made them standard equipment on Lincoln, Ford, Pierce-Arrow, Nash Advanced Six, Stearns-Knight, Jordan, Cun- ningham and thirty-three European cars. Send for the wonderful story of Houdaille and the actual experiences of car owner, as told in our interesting booklet, “What I Didn't Know about Shock Absorbers.” HOUDAILLE Hydraulic Double-Acting SHOCK ABSORBERS HOUDE ENGINEERING CORP, Dept. Li12 537 E. Delavan Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. Please send me your booklet, “Some Things I Didn't Know About Shock Absorbers.” comicbooks.com