Life, 1915-07-15 · page 12 of 48
Life — July 15, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces: **"The Flame's Reply"** - A poem by Leolyn Louise Everett responding to a moth's courtship with a flame, using extended metaphor about fate and self-destruction. **"Scandal"** - A brief commentary defining scandal as pleasure derived from others' misfortunes, positioned as women's and newspaper gossip-mongers' primary occupation. **"Nine or More Lives"** - Satirizes William Jennings Bryan's political career through the metaphor of cats with multiple lives. The piece catalogs his repeated self-destructions: failed silver campaigns, presidential runs, and political positions—mocking his persistent political ambitions despite repeated failures. **"The Great Need"** - A brief dialogue where Gladys seeks instruction on living beyond her means, a jab at consumerism and financial excess. **Right cartoon** - Shows a mother questioning country club expenses, with a son claiming his caddy requires such spending—satirizing extravagant leisure spending and class pretension.
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Millionaire: 1 WOULDN'T DO THIS FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS, AND HERE I AM—DOING IT FOR NOTHING Nine or More Lives “NAR BRYAN DESTROYS HIMSELF.” So runs the title of an editorial in the New York World. Mr. Bryan's friends may well hope that the statement is cor- rect, for anyone who has followed his career in the New York newspapers during the last two decades knows that it has been just one unbroken succession of profitable self- destructions. He destroyed himself in 1896 by coming out for free silver. He destroyed himself later by want- ing to give up the Philippines. He destroyed himself several times by being a candidate for the presidency. He destroyed himself by coming out for government ownership. He destroyed himself by becoming Secretary of State, and now he destroys himself by ceasing to be Secretary of State. Many is the young and struggling lawyer who would be delighted to destroy himself so effectively. E. O. J. The Great Need GNE: Marion has become an efficiency expert. She goes about telling women how to live within their incomes. Gravys: Nothing doing here! I’m looking for some one to teach me how to live beyond mine. The Flame’s Reply EASE, moth, your whirling dance of death, For I, the flame, have no desire Thus to destroy your futile breath With the illusion of my fire. I burn athwart the inky night Because it is my fate to burn, Yet you would make my ruddy light A beacon for the souls that yearn. Your dream, your passion and your doom, As with mad wings you strive and press On to my glimmer in the gloom, Bring to my heart but weariness. Leolyn Louise Everett, Scandal CANDAL is that which gives us pleasure in the thought that somebody else has done something which we have escaped doing because we were not similarly situated. Scandal furnishes an occupation for women and news- papers. It began in the Garden of Eden, and will end a few minutes after the last man has Ieft the earth. Mother who pays the bills: WHAT ARE ALL THESE CHARGES ON THE COUNTRY CLUB BILL—TO TOM COL- LINS? “THAT'S ALL RIGHT, MOTHER. HE—HE'S MY CADDY.” Ccomicbooks.com