Life, 1917-07-19 · page 27 of 40
Life — July 19, 1917 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A humorous sketch showing an overloaded automobile filled with household items and provisions, with the caption "Shall we stop here, Isabel? This would be a delightful spot to have lunch." The joke satirizes the emerging automobile culture and leisure travel—the vehicle is so packed with belongings that stopping for a simple picnic seems absurd. **Lower Image & Caption:** Titled "Not As Funny As It Was Before the War, Mr. Daniels," this appears to show a rotund, comic figure amid wreckage or debris. The caption references how wartime has diminished the appeal of pre-war humor, likely critiquing how WWI's gravity has made light entertainment seem inappropriate or tone-deaf. "Mr. Daniels" likely refers to Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during WWI. **Book Review Section:** Discusses Coningsby Dawson's letters from the trenches ("Carry On"), praising how combat transformed a formerly fearful young man into a hero—reflecting contemporary WWI narratives about war's character-building effects.
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The Latest Books O = of the noted Indian braves of a generation ago was called “ Young Man Afraid of His Horses.” One of the successful novels of the year before the war—Coningsby Dawson's “ The Garden Without Walls "—was the self-revealing story of a young man who was afraid of life. This same Coningsby Dawson is now commanding a Canadian artillery section on the British front. His letters to his family in America have just been published under the title of “Carry On” (Lane, $1). And no printed thing that has come out of the trenches has so spontaneously expressed for us the spirit- ual exaltation of the self-doubting mod- ern’s discovery that danger drives out fear and that heroism is a common or garden growth of the human heart. The book is the least calculated but most stirring message brought to America from any of her fighting sons. HATEVER you do, don't try to read garden books on a railway journey. I tried it recently, I had to take a three- day trip, and thought I'd use the time working out a planting scenario for a constant-blooming hardy perennial bor- der that would give post-impressionistic color schemes in monthly succession. But before I was a day out I couldn't tell whether I was lower three in the Ampelopsis or was intending to use it on a pergola, and didn't know if the Fritillaria was a deciduous shrub or a dining-car. Won't someone, before the (Continued on page 115) “LUPE: 107 NOT AS FUNNY AS IT WAS BEFORE THE WAR, MR, DANIELS comicbooks.com