Life, 1915-04-08 · page 12 of 44
Life — April 8, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**"City Boy" cartoon (top)**: A city boy is being chased by bumblebees after disturbing their nest, appearing to lose his hat. The caption "OW! GEE! BUMBLEBEES OUTTA BE MUZZLED!" is humorous—the boy is complaining the bees should be controlled, missing the irony that *he* provoked them. **"The Doctor" cartoon (bottom)**: A well-dressed man in a top hat walks past a bare, damaged tree. The caption reads "EVERY TIME I PASS THIS PLACE I'M INSULTED!"—likely satirizing hypersensitivity or suggesting the tree's poor appearance offends him aesthetically. **"The Geography of Married Life"** (prose): This uses geographical metaphors for marriage stages—courtship as "little silences," matrimony as "volcanic" terrain with mountains and valleys, and love as flowing rivers that may disappear. It's satirical commentary on married life's unpredictability.
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“LPP E * Medley, 1915 WENT to the Panama Fair, The Bird and Beast were there; The inns of the town Said their rates were down, But what became of my money-ey, mon-ey, mon— I wish I could say Nixy! I do, I do; I wish I could say Nixy! As Bryan and as— } Daniels! Daniels! Daniels in the li—li—li-li— Daniels in the li-ime light! I've a letter from the K: Baby mine, baby mine; He is God's own advertiser, = Baby mine, baby mine. ' Vy He is fighting ‘neath the sea, ~ And he damns neutrality ; He will blow me up with thee, Baby mine! So stand by the masses, Teddy; This world is a world of lies There's a party that’s dead already, And a score for the next one that cries— Good fight ladies! Good fight ladies! Good fight ladies! " We're going to leave you vote! City Boy: ow! Gre! BUMBLEBEES OUTHTA BE MUZZLED! LW. ser, ok The Geography of Married Life OME people who have been united a number of years lead what may be termed the monosyllabic married life, sterile plain punctured at intervals by the cacti “yes um" and “ah”. Others are like the tower of Babel, in which the man who thinks he is the owner sits in the gallery and listens to the music, or what some one else thinks is just-as-good-as. Courtship begins in little silences and ends in big ones. Matrimony is largely tableland, which proves in many cases to be of volcanic origin. Sometimes whole continents of love disappear after a single eruption. Sometimes matri- mony is only an island for two entirely surrounded by hot water. Matrimony is comprised of mountains, valleys, stretches of level plain, and bluffs. Rivers of love flow through it, sometimes melting away to thin streams that trickle invisibly under a rank growth, and finally die away alto- gether, or increase in volume, fed by many side streams, utimately becoming broad and stately rivers, flowing maj tically to the ocean. You never can tell which one you will float on until it is too late to change streams UDGING from the amount paid out for pensions, the The Doctor: evERY TIME I PASS THIS PLACE I'M number of survivors of the Civil War have greatly INSULTED! increased in the last few years. comichooks.