Life, 1910-08-18 · page 10 of 36
Life — August 18, 1910 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main illustration depicts a small sailing boat in rough seas with the caption "I WISH I WAS SAFE AT HOME. I HAVE EXPERIENCED SUCH A STORM," and "FOR I WAS, YOU'RE A BACHELOR." This appears to be a humorous commentary on bachelor life. The joke suggests that a bachelor's domestic situation is so chaotic or unpleasant that even a dangerous storm at sea seems preferable. The caption's irony—wishing to be home while simultaneously acknowledging home is worse than a storm—satirizes the challenging or uncomfortable conditions bachelors faced managing their own households, likely in contrast to married men with wives to manage domestic affairs. The surrounding text includes sections on "All About Squawking," "Life's Fresh Air Fund," and "Murder Stories," typical of Life's mixed editorial content.
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“L WISH I WAS SAPE AT HOME, 1 NEVER EXPERIENCED SUCIE A STORM." “on! WELL, You'RE A BACHELOR,”’ Life’s Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged. +$5,610.66 TOP ORsesersersectenectsnees s.3t “In Memory of Christene™... 5.00 js M. , ils $.00 Mary Carlisle... aon 10.00 Miss J. Andrews. a Miss Marguerite Wilke Anonymous .......0+++ ‘Allen Mason.. Proceeds of Concert given by the Misses. Katherine Emmet, | Ger- trude Ingersoll, Muriel Wiggin, Susanne Howe, Ray Bulkley, Mil- dred Ingersoll. Madelaine Lynch, and Ninon Newton........:.... 344-00 Peggy Kemp. aes 10.00 Miss E. Ke Strona 10.00 Chester_B. Bowles Lucy, Graeme and John. Postals From Life's Farm Dear Mother. We went cherry picking Thursday and 1 went in the trees to shake the cherry's down. Wednesday we got chewing gum. Thursday we got a loly pop. It is fine out here, T d Tam all sunburnt Love to all Tam very happy because you let me go a It is very nice in the country. I love to stay and pich the sweet daisy because they are so sweet from Henwierta Fisoto. Deak Geatruoe Tam enyoying my self > here as it is just beautiful From your friend Irene Ketty, S.W.AK adress Life's Farm, Branchville, Connecticut answe Murder Stories O far as we are concerned we could get along ordinarily if the papers devoted somewhat less space than they do to the less essential parts of murder stories. Of course we want to know about the more notable murders. To know about them is a duty that the re- sponsible members of should And crime is an interesting de- tail of life, and the processes of de- tection are often quite as good to read about as they work out in a real case as they are in the imaginary cases that the wits of the story writers contrive. And a murder trial is, while, a great story and worth the best efforts of skilfullest. newspaper and the readers’ time But on the days when the papers have nothing more to say about an interesting murder than “nothing new has tran- spired since yesterday,"’ they really ought to be content to say it in half a column, and to extend “nothing new," as some of them do," over two,' three, four columns or more, with pictures how things might have happened, and of imaginary suspects and of anybody else that can be lugged in, is tiresome—really it is, at least to us. It is a tradition of journalism that nothing sells papers like a murder. But it is mean to overwork even a tradition. society share. once in a story-tellers sometimes of Besides, we doubt if it is altogether safe That tradition has its roots in tines when homicide was a good deal rarer than it is now, and when news generally was scarce, whereas now we have homicide with us always, and general news comes in from all over the woridl Our neighbors, the newspapers, ought to boil down their murder stories, es cially on the days when there is no ral der news and they have to in they use. All About Squawking gevaws and the world squawks w you. One good squawk deserves another Once a squawker always a squawk:r squawker by any other name would : as much trouble. takes two squawkers to makt a When in squawkers do. Squawking is that squawking does Absence makes the squawker madder You can lead a squawker to water but you cannot make her stop squawking Squawker's Motto: Say nothing, but squawk good. Squawkville do as the ANOTHER SEA SERPENT comicbooks.com