Life, 1929-02-08 · page 21 of 44
Life — February 8, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early aviation culture through two cartoons featuring newlyweds who are skydivers or parachutists (the "aviator" theme). **Top cartoon ("The Aviator's Wedding")**: Shows a bride in a parachute alongside two men descending. The joke plays on the modern, daring nature of aviation—even weddings now involve extreme sports. **Bottom cartoon ("The Aviator's Bride")**: Depicts the bride mid-parachute jump with the caption where she threatens to leave her new husband and "go home to mother" rather than tolerate his complaints. The satire targets 1920s modernity: the relatively new phenomenon of aviation as entertainment, changing gender roles (an active, adventurous bride), and marital dynamics where women assert independence rather than submit to husbands' nagging. The page's quotations about modern life (cigarettes, marriage, clothing) reinforce the theme of rapid social change in the era.
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Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers Croriine is a necessary accompaniment to modern civilization. | Bernarr Macfadden. Any woman really desirous of making a man fall in love with her can do it if \she tries hard enough. — Peggy Joyce. It is harmful to lace children’s shoes too ght. Arthur Brisbane. If yeu rap an obstinate hog hard enough |and long enough he will ultimately sce a |New vision. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. | The cigarette is the chief factor in mak- ing a prude of the modern woman, Heywood Broun. All the world likes nice people. Bruno Lessing. To make an unhappy marriage is a far worse calamity than to die. Dorothy Dix. Concerning many things we can say quite simply that men believe because | they do not know any better. E. Haldeman-Julius. Books give an air. William Lyon Phelps. Reading can be made a very important aid in gathering useful knowledge. A. B. See. The first bald-head man was the first Tre Avutor’s Wenpinc philosopher. H. L. Mencken, REMINISCENCES First Oto Man: Everything — has changed since we were boys. Seconn Orv Man: Yes, even our boy- hood! TEST Avutuor: Mr. Mencken, I want to write for your magazine. | H. L. Mencken: Say “bah!” We are looking forward with trepidation to the first talkie of a golf match, | SA Ns Re a am aN nd Wuat some people don’t know Tue Avutor’s Brive about driving would fill a hospital. Brive: I won't listen to another word of your fussing—I’m going home to mother! comicbooks.com