Life — March 18, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "A Spring Song" - Life Magazine Page This page combines a poem about spring with an illustration titled "Even the Subway Crush Has Its Advantages." The poem celebrates spring's arrival—lengthening days, painting and putty work, plumbers and stores bustling—while humorously acknowledging the seasonal chaos ("high mislemenor," typos for "misdemeanor," suggesting spring's disruptive nature). The illustration depicts a crowded subway scene where people are pressed together uncomfortably. The caption's joke is that even unpleasant situations have silver linings: the subway crush (crowded conditions) offers "advantages," likely meaning romantic or flirtatious proximity to strangers. This reflects early 20th-century urban humor about metropolitan life's simultaneous inconveniences and unexpected social opportunities.