Life, 1911-07-13 · page 27 of 44
Life — July 13, 1911 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**The Cartoon:** The image shows a humorous illustration of early aircraft in collision or distress, with the caption "THROW UP YER HANDS!" This appears to be satirizing the novelty and danger of early aviation—a contemporary concern when aircraft were experimental and unpredictable. **The Text Content:** The page contains three unrelated pieces: 1. **Amateur Baseball Notes:** A lighthearted commentary on local baseball coverage, mocking the casual nicknames and gossip that dominate amateur sports reporting ("Buddy," "Butch," "Chuck"). 2. **Modern Pharmacy:** A satirical anecdote where a college president boasts about pharmacy instruction that includes teaching soap, cigars, and telephone books—clearly absurd and mocking inflated educational claims. 3. **Why Not Marriage Suits?:** A tongue-in-cheek proposal that couples seeking marriage should undergo formal legal proceedings like divorce cases, with judges and juries, to "prove" their love. The satirist argues this would benefit lawyers and make marriage seem more valuable than divorce. All three pieces use exaggeration and irony to critique contemporary institutions and social practices.
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“THROW UP YER MAND: : Harold, catcher; Bill, pitcher; Earney, cond base; August, third base; Hanky, Fred, right will line up as follo} first base; John, s short stop; Dutch, left ficld; Ralph, center field “field.” “ Buddy ” and “ Butch,” “ Chuck” and “Kid” are every- day words in the amateur notes. “The feature of the game was the home run of Abie in the twelfth inning,” or “the Blucs will hold a mecting in Dooley’s barber shop at 7 o'clock to-night,” are commonplace bulletin and comment, When the amateur column grows long the city knows that sum- mer’s here. Modern Pharmacy E have a very fine course in pharmacy,” says the presi- dent of the college to the father of the student who is entering. “T'm glad to hear that. druggist. “Well, we give special lectures on soap, stamps, cigars, perfumery, soda water, candy, city directories, telephone books and stationery.” My boy expects to become a Why Not Marriage Suits ? I divorce suits, why not marriage suits? If two people want to live together, why Iet them do it without a scandal, especially when there is such a shortage in the scan- dal crop? It isn’t enough to take their unchallenged word that they love each other or that they are otherwise incompatible. Most of them are too young even to know what love is. They should be made to prove it. We should gather the two sus- pects into a dingy court room, make them parade before a judge and jury and bullyrag them with detectives, lawyers, alienists, moralists and other public nuisances. What a tremendous boost to the legal profession this would be! How the lawyers and legislators would enjoy building up a code of marital jurisprudence according to Marquis of Queensbury rules. And what an impetus it would be to marriage! Nothing is worth having which is not worth fighting for. By our laws, therefore, we recognize divorce as worth more than marriage. This is distinctly unfair to marriage and is not at all what we intended. comicbooks.com