Life, 1916-12-14 · page 6 of 42
Life — December 14, 1916 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct editorial pieces from *Life* magazine: 1. **"What's in a Name?"** - A political commentary contrasting Democrats and Republicans, suggesting both parties differ only in superficial ways ("tweedledum and tweedledee"). The piece appears satirical about party distinctions. 2. **"Training"** - A brief joke about someone running back and forth on Fifth Avenue, with a punchline referencing a Harvard football player's ability to sidestep automobiles. 3. **Two cartoons**: The upper illustration is titled "The New England Conscience"; the lower shows a man pointing at a bed with the caption "Come back to bed, Rollie, we can sense him when he comes." The lower cartoon appears to satirize spiritualism or séance culture—likely mocking the popular early-20th-century practice of contacting spirits through mediums. The humor relies on contemporary fascination with the supernatural.
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1092 What's in a Name? DEMOCRAT harks back to Greece for the name of his party, a Republican only as far as Rome, the point being that tastes necessarily differ in harking as in everything else. Greece’s specialty, of course, was glory, while Rome's was grandeur. Everything is up these days, and if the im- pression goes abroad that glory costs more than it is worth the masses probably have only themselves to blame. As for grandeur, while the results of the elec- tion are somewhat mixed, the thought occurs that those who confound it with whiskers take almost too much for granted, The fact that the difference betwixt tweedledum and tweedledee is a matter of nuances signifies nothing. Nu- ances may be and often are exceedingly popular and im- portant. Training “VY/JHO is that strange person running back and forth across Fifth Avenue? Is he crazy?” “Oh, no; that’s the star halfback of the Yarvard team keeping in training. If he can dodge the automobiles on Fifth Avenue for a week without getting run down, there's no football player in the world that he can’t sidestep.” Futures TARTLING statement made by one of our famous THE NEW ENGLAND CONSCIENCE scientists: “ We must save our coal supply for use in the hereafter. Winter Magic T' bright white magic of the morn Above the hill-crests calm and cold; And o'er the meadows, lone and lorn, The moon, a frozen pool of gold! The magic of the hush that lies Where bird and brook were wont to sing; Then the blue magic of your eyes That hint of violets and Spring! Clinton Scollard. In a Dilemma RAWFORD: How do you stand on this question of the remarriage of those who have been legally di- vorced? Cransnaw: I don't sce how the Episcopal Church can expect to remain TT fashionable if it refuses to recognize “COME BACK TO BED, ROLLIE, WE CAN SENSE HIM WHEN HE COMES” divorce