Life, 1917-11-08 · page 28 of 40
Life — November 8, 1917 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains several satirical sketches reflecting early 20th-century American concerns: **"The Great Unrest"** (top): A philosophical dialogue between a man and woman debating how to "defy the world"—through money, love, or illusion. The accompanying cartoon shows a lawyer offering his services to an injured man, who replies he's "three minutes too late," satirizing lawyers' opportunism. **"Found Out"**: References real public figures (Amos Pinchot, Oswald Villard, Owen Lovejoy, and others) who signed a telegram. The text suggests these progressives face suspicion—if establishment figures approve of them, they must be compromised. This reflects wartime divisions over pacifism and radicalism. **"The Right Spirit"**: An acrostic celebrating women's wartime contributions (Red Cross nursing, knitting, canning)—patriotic home-front activities. **"Conservation"**: A joke about food rationing (likely WWI-era), where a young man uses government conservation rhetoric to reduce compliments to his girlfriend, mimicking official appeals. All sketches mock contemporary social anxieties and pretensions.
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760 The Great Unrest T would scem that they were talk- ing rather aimlessly. You shall judge. “To defy the world,” he said, “one must have something to defy the world with.” “Money or love she suggested. Her remark would naturally give the clue to her dress, her temperament, her experience—almost her age. “You can defy the world with neither,” he replied. } “Well, I have had my guess. Now it is your turn.” “You must create an illusion so po- tent that, at critical moments, it will shut out distressing thoughts. To defy the world is not to abjure the world; but only to ignore it when necessary.” Lawyer (offering his card): PERHAPS 1 COULD BE OF ASSISTANCE TO YOU. i “What better then, than money—or Pat: YE CUD, BUT YER ABOUT THREE MINUTES T00 LATE. love? I insist that I am right.” millionaire friend of mine shot “You mean—?"” Professor Beard congratulating him himself last night,” he observed coldly. “To surrender yourself absolutely on following Professor Cattell out of cking a divorce to the great illusion.” Columbia. Amos and the others rep- She put resented the American Union Against arism. “ A woman I know i from her husband—why?—because she She looked at him closely. loved him too much.” her hand to her throat. M “ Exceptions.” “And you: " she murmured. In the present state of the nation, He got up. “LT leave for France—to-morrow.” anyone who finds himself felicitated by Amos and the Eastmans on any public Found Out action ought to begin to suspect what MOS PINCHOT, Oswald G. Vil- is the matter with him. When the lard, Owen Lovejoy, Crystal and crowd that these brethren and sisters Max Eastman and Emily Balch were run with approves, it amounts to a among the signers of a telegram to diagnosis. The Right Spirit C stands for Clara, the new Red Cross nurse; O stands for Olive who sent Belgium a purse L stands for Laura who knits countless sweaters; U stands for Una who writes our boys letters; Mstands for Mary who offered her flivver ; B stands for Betty, the benefit-giver ; I stands for Inez who cans night and day; Astands for Anne who throws nothing away. Edmund J. Kiefer. Conservation you used to tell me every day that I was sweet cnough complains the beauteous creature, “but now you only tell me that once a week.” YY N “My dear,” explains the gallant but patriotic youth, “1 \ \ \ . am only following Mr. Hoover's instructions as to conser- VN vation of food.” “THAT PIANO, MADAM, IS WONDERFULLY SOFT IN TOND.” RESHMAN: ats won't DO THEN, THE FAMILY ON THE FLOOR ABOVE ME Frat clection? | PLAYS ‘DIE WACHT AM RIINE’ ALL DAY, AND T WANT THE 7 : . LOULESEHEASO CCAS Co IOTERS Ee Ci oR Oe Son: Oh, he'll never amount to anything around col- NER? Ox. lege. He never does a thing but study. What made you vote against Jones at the comicbookSieeg conn