Life, 1929-04-05 · page 38 of 56
Life — April 5, 1929 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** A architectural interior (cathedral or grand building) captioned as "The Crane Company sends a committee abroad to find new ideas in bathroom designs." This is absurdist humor—Crane was a real bathroom fixtures manufacturer. The joke mocks corporate pretension by suggesting they'd send executives to Europe to study grand architecture for inspiration on... toilets and sinks. It's satirizing both corporate self-importance and the disconnect between high art and mundane utility. **Bottom Cartoon:** "The Day-After-Easter Parade" depicts chaos with people, cars, and what appear to be eggs or round objects scattered everywhere. This likely mocks the commercialized Easter celebration and the chaotic consumer frenzy that follows the holiday—suggesting Easter has become about material excess rather than religious meaning. The page also contains brief humorous quotes about courtship, women's longevity, a doctor's house call, automobiles corrupting youth, and a swindler caught by his sobriety—typical satirical commentary on 1920s social life and mores.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Cratc—What's that old refrigerator doing in your daughter's room? Hott—She’s in love with the ice. man, and calls it her hopechest. —Baltimore Sun, Every girl baby has an expectation of life four years longer than that of a boy baby. This is only fair, because she has much more to say. —London Opinion, The doctor had received an urgent call from the home of a young couple. Arriving, the doctor found the young father on the doorstep, watch in hand. “What’s the trouble?” asked the doctor. “Nothing this time, doctor. My wife just wanted to see how quickly \ you could get here in case she was taken suddenly ill. You did it in four minutes this time.” —Pearson’s. “The motor is ruining the younger} “ generation,” declares a writer. It seems the other way round to many fathers. —Everybody’s Weekly. = “So they have found that swindler the police have wanted.” ; u “Yes, he went to an hotel and said he was an American; he sat down and didn’t drink alcohol, so the man- ager got suspicious.” —Faun, Vienna. The Crane Company sends a committee abroad to find new ideas in bathroom designs. — Yale Record. The Day-After-Easter Parade. comicbooks.com