Life, 1929-03-22 · page 17 of 36
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This page contains a satirical cartoon titled "In a Sand-Paper Factory—A Chorus of Hula Hula Dancers Chanting the Natural Sand from Bunches of Spinach Onto Squares of Gummed Paper. One Bunch of Spinach Will Sand About a Square Yard." The cartoon depicts women in a factory setting performing exaggerated hula dancing motions while processing spinach. The satire mocks industrial manufacturing efficiency by absurdly suggesting spinach can be used as sandpaper through rhythmic dancing. This appears to be lampooning both factory labor practices and the fad for Hawaiian culture ("hula hula") that was popular in early 20th-century America. The cartoon uses physical humor and unlikely juxtaposition—combining manufacturing, tropical dance, and vegetable processing—to create comedic commentary on industrial absurdity.
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LONDON-—A living advertisement for face-lifting operations has been at tracting attention at smart restaurants and hotels here. The model is a woman, whose employers have lifted only one cheek. Thus one side shows a face of 50, while the other indicates only 30. LL MOSCOW—The Beggars’ Union of this city is giving lessons in the cor- rect technique of beggary. As the in- come of the average mendicant is higher than that of the unskilled la- borer, the student body is large. L CAPE TOWN, S. A.—The Rev. Mr. Pooley has just returned from Cristan de Cunha, the loneliest isle on the globe. In answer to recent pleas for help, he reports, each colon- ist now owns 5 Bibles and 150 Ibs. of Epsom. salts. aL SAN LUIS PO. TOSI, Mex.—Roda- lia Salazar, who has just died at the age of 116, was noted for having participated in thirty-three cam- paigns. The last time he enlisted he was a hot-blooded youth of wz. aL LONDON~— Philip Snowden, for- PARIS, France—A modernist mag: azine called transition (note the lower case t, very modern) recently sub- mitted a questionnaire to a number of “modern” American artists and writers now living in Paris, asking them why they preferred residence in Europe to that in the United States. The following is an answer by one of the writers, A. Lincoln Gillespie Jr.: 1. (a) Because in Europe I find Meaning Scurry in their Organize- Self-Divert—hours loll here all simmer- rife-Expect-lush-stat, GET is less-nec- essary. (b) Because of the absence of Tight- blank faces here. (European Maturity seems of the in-touch-with-Youth Pulse ripe sort.) (c) Liquor-Gamme abroad some- what breatheier. (d) Abroad, as if transplanted an ideating Dream Stance Indef, the me-axpatriate remenvisages America- the-Spectacle, initsensing its cosminte- grality, critifocaspecting its Univeering probably for a first time. (Local Econs are so intrude-mussuppy.) LL SAO PAULO, Brazil—The heaviest rainfall known in ten years has re- duced the coffee crop of this area by twenty-five or more per cent. This ts @ permanent condition with the coffee crop of most restaurants, LL LONDON—A drinking glass of ice has been invented. Apart from cooling the liquid placed within it, it is claimed to be very hygienic. It will last for half an hour in a room of average temperature. LL ST. THOMAS, Ont.—This from a local newspaper: “Card of thanks: “The lady who was so careless as to step in front of an automobile on Tal- bot Street last eve- ning wishes to thank the driver for his promptness in apply- ing the brakes and offers apologies for her carelessness.” LL mer Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech at Keighly, remarked: “A few sheep to clothe one woman—now one silkworm can do it.” (N A SANO-PAPER FACTORY, ~A CHORUS OF HULA HULA DANCERS SHAKING THE NATURAL SAND FROM BUNCHES (ED PAPER, ONE : OF SPINACH ONTO GQUARES OF GUM! years ago it took four BUNCH OF SPINACH WILL SAND ABOUT A SQUARE YARD ee | Behind the scenes of a great industry. DUBLIN — Sea- mus McCall states rouging is not new. Records show that centuries ago women of Erin used the juice of berries for the same _ purpose. comicbooks.com