Life, 1917-04-19 · page 9 of 42
Life — April 19, 1917 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical cartoons and accompanying text from *Life* magazine (page 669). **Top Cartoon**: Depicts a domestic scene where a woman confronts a man about refusing a dinner invitation from "the Mortons." The caption quotes her asking why he rejected dining with people they like, noting Mrs. Morton has worn a certain gown before and Mrs. Follett hasn't seen it. The satire mocks trivial social anxieties and status-consciousness among the upper-middle class—the concern that wearing the same dress twice among social peers is somehow damaging. **Bottom Cartoon**: Shows a barber shop scene with the caption "A SHAMPOO ON MY NECK, A SHAVE ON MY HIND LEGS AND A HAIR-CUT DOWN MY SPINE, PLEASE." This appears to ridicule exaggerated or absurd grooming requests, likely satirizing pretentious or nonsensical customer behavior. Both pieces target bourgeois social vanity and pretension.
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And just as there is in the country a large body of professional school teachers, there must be a considerable body of professional military officers, thoroughly trained in the military art, and making that the business of their lives, We may hope to see the class dis- tinction between officer and private lessen and disappear as our military system is extended. Officers must have authority, and must be sustained in the exercise of it, just as school teachers are. There must be discipline, stricter than school discipline, but not of a very different quality. In all organizations there are officers, and they give the word of command which must be obeyed if business is to be done. So it is in a railroad, in a grocery, in a de- partment store, in every successful household. The army is to be a demo- cratic army—of the people, for and by them—instructed by professional sol- diers, who are public servants, under orders of the government. That kind of an army will be popu- lar. We are not going to have it be- cause we like it, but because it is necessary to our security and to the discharge of our duty as a nation in a world in which no nation can any longer live apart from the rest. BE, S.M. Si: They refused to cash a check for me this morning, because they said the account was overdrawn. Now I'd really like to know what is the good of having a Federal Reserve Board, anyway. “A SHAMPOO ON MY NECK, A SHAVE ON MY HIND LEGS AND A HAIR-CUT DOWN MY SPINE, PLEASE.” YO! Wt 4 C7 QA “BUT, MY DEAR, WHY DID YOU REFUSE TO DINE WITH THE MORTONS, WHOM WE LIKE, AND ACCEPT THIS INVITATION TO THE FOLLETS, WHOM WE DETEST?” “IT's PERFECTLY SIMPLE, MRS, FOLLET HASN'T,” MRS. MORTON HAS SEEN THIS GOWN BEFORE AND No Bettors S late as March 27th Admiral Fiske thought the Ger- mans had an even chance of winning. But he spoke merely as a military scientist. What the sporting world would like to find is parties willing to express that view in money To the Rear HE next great retreat, to follow Hindenburg’s, will he the retreat of the pacifists. , Oswald G. Villard may persuade the Evening Post to call it a masterly strategical retirement, but we shall know it for what it is, a fall-hack of the beaten. HERE are two sure ways to get a reputation for being clever: either by saying unconventional things in con- ventional language or by conventional language. saying conventional things in un- comicbooks.com