Life, 1910-12-22 · page 19 of 44
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**Top Cartoon ("Young Softleigh's Inspiration"):** A young man presents himself in a decorated box as a Christmas gift to Miss Violet, but she announces her engagement to someone else ("that chump of a Thompson"). The satire mocks both the young man's theatrical romantic gesture and Miss Violet's apparent indifference to it. **"The Deadly Parallel":** This is a humorous composition study contrasting two writing styles. The left side uses absurdist, nonsensical sports jargon ("schlaffed his tee shot," "bingled a daycutter") to mock overwrought literary prose. It appears to satirize inflated or affected writing in contemporary literature. **"Why So Exclusive?":** References Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's recent comments about women smoking. The piece questions why women refrain from smoking in public if they do so privately at home—questioning the hypocrisy of social conventions around women's behavior. **Bottom cartoon ("The Foal"):** A horse with visible ribs—satirizing that while brains may be valuable currency, that's "all they're good for" (a cynical comment on society's actual values).
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YOUNG SOFTLEIGH'S INSPIRATION YO PRESENT HIMSELF, IN A BOX, AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO MISS VIOLET. BUT SHE MARS IT BY ANNOUNCING HER ENGAGEMENT TO THAT CHUMP OF A THOMPSON The Deadly Parallel A STUDY IN ENGLISIE COMPOSITION I’ the eighth act Matty PINKS schlaffed his tee shot burned over three beauts J into the Devil's Den, go- and Wagner brutally as- ‘ing to the sixteenth and saulted the ambient atmos- messed his niblick recover. phere. Mike bingled a d His brassey fourth connected cutter down the right line with the kop bunker and he and purloined the middle sack lifted. Jones got away a IT 18 A SENSATIONAL SUCCESS, better class, or because they are women, or because the public is the public? We do not like to be too finicky about a matter of this sort, but, while we are on the subject, we might as well have whatever reasons there may be. on the first teaser over the rubber. Collins solved a fade- away and sewed it up by stinging the pill to the flag- pole and ambling around the circuit. screamer and was on in three with a nifty mashie pitch. He rimmed bis approach putt, sank his next for a bogey five and was dormie two. Why So Exclusive ? $ ELL,” said Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, recently, “if you ask me, I see no reason why women shouldn't smoke igarcttes. Neither, I fancy, do any women of the better cl in America, for I am quite sure they do it, and quite freely, too, in their own homes, although, of course, they refrain from smoking in public. Of course they refrain in public, and it is undoubtedly all right to so refrain; but why? Is it because they are of the The Foai CALY BILL OF FARE, BUT 1 GU WELL, BRAINS MAY BE RIGHT ON S$ THAT'S ALL THEY'RE GooD Fou. ALL TUR