Life, 1929-06-28 · page 7 of 37
Life — June 28, 1929 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humorous observations about modern city life by Tom Sims, accompanied by satirical illustrations. The main cartoon depicts a hot air balloon landing near a woman and child, with the caption "Lower come back to me!" The satire appears to target the novelty and impracticality of early aviation as transportation—a wealthy person escaping by balloon while leaving behind dependents. Sims's accompanying commentary mocks various urban inconveniences: flagpole-sitters hiding behind women's skirts, filling-station owners blaming tourists for road conditions, cabbage cooking odors in apartment buildings, and bathing suits looking unflattering compared to overcoats. The "Crying Necessities" list humorously catalogs items required for emotional display in polite society—handkerchief, mirror, rouge, powder, and "a shoulder" to cry on. The overall tone satirizes urban pretension and modern social affectations.
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Life Along about the middle of the week, things quiet down so that the children drop by home to spend the night. Crying Necessities Handkerchief. Mirror. Rouge. Face Powder. A. shoulder. The good old- fashioned town band had _ its points. You never had to take any sta- tion announce- ments with it. Z It Sims = giy To Me ‘ ; F F 5 Only a flagpole- sitter can hide be- hind a woman's skirts now. A. filling-sstation owner tells us that tourists stop for free crank-case service, free in- formation, free air, free water, and to blame him for the condition of the roads. Cabbage is friendly. When you try to cook cabbage in an apartment it soon gets up and down the hall to visit the neighbors. The one great drawback to summer is that some of us don’t look as well in bathing suits as we did in overcoats. On Sundays we prefer the automo- hile to a visit to the movies. — Better sitting in line than standing. —Tom Sims. “Lover come back to me!” “Good-by, Emma, I've got to sneeze.” Fruit is high in New York. A dozen mediumesized or- anges, Florida or California, cost about three dollars, This is, counting in the price of the gin. Imagine building the pyramids with- out stopping to smoke even one cigarette! comicbooks.com