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# Analysis of "Dave's Sea-Breezy Letter" (Judge, June 1919) This page contains a humorous letter from a character named Dave at Sea Cliff, Long Island, describing his seaside property to the editor. The satire targets **post-World War I economic anxieties**: Dave boasts about his modest waterfront location while simultaneously mentioning stock tips, German peace terms, and a Spanish-American War boiler—mixing mundane vacation details with financial speculation and geopolitical concerns. The accompanying cartoons illustrate leisure activities (the top sketch shows people on a dock; the bottom depicts "Summer Boarders" in a canoe). The humor lies in Dave's contradictory advice—he brags about his property while asking about stock markets and war news, embodying the distracted, financially-anxious American of 1919 unable to simply enjoy a vacation.

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aint too high. Some evening when you come home to your house tell your wife the name of some good safe stock which you think will go up very soon, and tell her to tell my wife next time they meet at Baumans whist party. You can see by the date line that I'm at Sea Cliff, and also that it is the longest day in the year, which is really why I am writing you as on other days I wouldnt have the time or the ambition Why dont you and your wife come down here some Sunday to see our place which is as fine as any I have seen here yet. We are right on the water, and outside of some tents, and cottages, and trees being right in front of us, y’understand, there is nothing to prevent our looking right over the sound into New Rochelle where 4 go when you was single and crazy about Sylvia | yu used to Levine . Its wonderful how my wife Flora found the SATS place. Dont you ever wonder how it is people = find a place after looking for four or five months, and then they invite some friends out to see them and expect them to find the place the first day, hey Eddie! But no fooling you must come out , to see us. What kind of a car have you got now, ause the reason I ask is if you still have that anish American war boiler I saw you in last year you might well stay at home. This country here is full of hills and as 1 remember my last ride in your alleged automobile it i 7 wouldn't climb a 2. grade. - a I sce by the papers that Germany will sign the peace terms io-morrow, or maybe she will ask for Mis Mother e1ill he for air, an extension like Nathan & Kaplan do every time 1 their note is due. Anyway you dont got no time Dave's Sea-Breezy Letter to read the papers because youre too busy counting com ] id missions, and I aint got the time neither because Im busy | Sea Curr, Loxe Istaxp, N.Y. getting ready a new fall line of goods which will be a knockout, | Saturday, June 21, 1919 believe me, and I remain Dear Eddie: Maybe you think it strange to receive a letter Yours, etc., from me which aint no stranger than my writing it, for if I Dave. dont let you hear from me once in a while I could be dead S. Dont forget to tell your wife to tell my wife to tell me and buried six times over, and you wouldnt lift a pinky to about that tip. find out if I was still paying income taxes. S. If youre coming out to sce us dont come until next Why dont you let me know something sometime? Here week because Flora says she aint fixed the house up yet a you are in the stock business, and your wife related to my =P. S. What do you think of the stock market? hot even a small tip so k omy busi brother-in-law and not a line from yo: I could make some money. Allright if ye Registering Doubt wont do your firm any good but why dont you let my wife Grocer—When I was a boy I received $1.50 per week and f Flora know? Shes got enough money handy now to buy as saved money | much as a 100 shares of some low priced stock provided it Clerk—Yes, but they didn’t have any cash registers then | Drawn ty Doxaw McKew . Suaamer Boarvers comicbooks.com