Life, 1915-07-08 · page 31 of 44
Life — July 8, 1915 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("The Metropolitan Handicap"):** Shows two cars racing—one labeled "Cost of Living" and another labeled "Income." The joke satirizes the widening gap between rising expenses and stagnant wages, a common economic complaint of the era. "Handicap" references horse racing, suggesting income is artificially handicapped in this economic race. **Letter Section:** A Swedish reader defends Germans as a people while criticizing German "war-masters" (military leadership), reflecting WWI-era debates about collective versus leadership responsibility. *Life* responds that opposition targets warmongers, not ordinary Germans. **"It Was All Right" Story:** Satirizes expert hypocrisy—a famous child-rearing expert's published advice contradicts her actual parenting experience. The editor's solution (replacing her with ghostwritten articles) mocks both journalistic shortcuts and the gap between theoretical expertise and lived reality. **Bottom Cartoon:** A lovestruck youth awkwardly proposes to "Miss Violet," illustrating sentimental romantic earnestness, likely meant as light humor contrasting with the page's weightier content.
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Not Opposed to Germans per se On perusing some recent numbers of your interesting journal, I find that you seem to. be somewhat embittered with the Germans.—From a letter from a Swede to Lirr. OT with the mass of the German people, Lire’s opposition is to the erman war-masters who have abso- lutely controlled all the other Germans and have set out to ruin them and all Europe, . When the Germans overthrow the control of their war-masters and cease to be a peril to all liberty and all c zation it will be possible to come to terms with them at once, It Was All Right “T AM in a terrible dilemma!” The lady psychologist and world- famous expert on the education of children stood before the great maga- zine editor, overcome by her emotion. “Be calm, madam,” said the great editor; “maybe we can help you out of your difficulty. Does it concern the series of articles you are writing for t does, You see, when I began to write this series of articles on how to bring up children I was single, but since then I have been married and now have a baby of my own, and I have discovered that what I was writing THE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP about is not true at all when it comes to actual practice, In the meantime the series is not finished. I cannot fulfill, my contract.” The great editor smiled soothingly. “My dear madam,” he said, “don’t let this concern you in the slightest Love-sick Youth: mus: TENNIS WITH degree. family, VIOLET, WON'T You ME, OR SOMFTH Anticipating that this might be the case, as I knew about your mar- riage, I have already had the articles written by one of our staff, to guard happening, you know. against Good-day.” ASE MARRY such little ME, OR PLAY We have things Love to the comicbooks.com