Life, 1911-07-27 · page 24 of 40
Life — July 27, 1911 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a **poetry guessing game** where readers identify poets from riddle-like clues. The clues use wordplay—for example, "the poet that's famous for harbor or port" likely refers to "Longfellow" (long fellow = tall). Similar cryptic references appear throughout. The page also includes **two satirical cartoons**: 1. **"That Point of View"**: A landlord tells a tenant he can stay in a hot apartment rent-free because "you can live in this hot apartment is no reason why I can"—satirizing landlord logic and poor living conditions. 2. **"More Profitable"**: Old Rocksey tells Miss Rocksey her suitor George is hardworking, but she corrects him: she wants a man who can "make money without working"—mocking materialistic marriage expectations and the desire for wealth without effort. The page also mentions **Dr. MacArthur's upcoming trip to Russia and Rome** to lecture the czar and pope about 20th-century democratic values—satirizing American religious leaders' presumption in trying to "reform" foreign powers.
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152 -LIFE- Who Are These Poets? Read carefully the Vines which follow and see if you can guess the name of each Poet referred to. The answers will be published in next week's Life. POETS Guess the name of the poet that’s surely not short, The poet th both black and white, The one that led Teddy to Africa’s sport, The poet that’s merry and bright; The poet that dames do, who dainty clothes wear, The one that’s a heath or a plain, The poet whose trade is a metal most rare, The one where the miller keeps grain; The poet that’s famous for harbor or port, Him whose joys are ne'er met with elsewhere, The one that in brook or in pond loves to sport, ¢ poet that’s not a wet lair; The poet ‘whose piety all may confess, The poet the farmer will make, The poet you get when you laugh to excess, The poet that makes a man ache; The. poet whose product was wise, bright and mean, Him whose name and whose race are the same, The poet that babes are, too carly to wean, The one you may get’ from the flame. HEN a man loses control of himself, someti anger and sometimes it is love “YE CAN'T FOOL ME, OI'LL BET THEKE’S A WIRE MOULDIN’ THAT U Good Luck ! I will soon go to Russia to sce the czar of the Russias, and to Rome to see the pope of Rome, The time has arrived czar and the pope must learn that this is the 20th century, nc isth, and when the voice of religious democracy must be he even in Peterhof and the Vatican, S° our valiant Baptist neighbor, Dr. MacArthur of Fifty- seventh street, said in his farewell sermon last month before going abroad. Let us hope he will sce the delinquents he has planned to visit. They need a word from him, The papers say Stolypin has resigned, and what wonder with Dr. MacArthur coming! And the July Atlantic leads off with two pieces about the Pope. Wise Atlantic! If we had any standing. matter about the Pope we would rush it right into these columns before Dr, MacArthur gets to Rome and while there is still a Pope to talk about. More Profitable ISS ROCKSEY , Papa, George is a hard-working, Mr. Edleweiss: wose, i've come 10 TELL you 11's ALL young man. OVER. BECAUSE YOU CAN LIVE IN THIS HOT APARTMENT 18 NO Oto Rocxsey: That's it exactly. The man I wish you 10 KPASON WILY 1 CAN. marry must be to make money without working THAT POINT OF VIEW comicbooketom