Life, 1918-02-07 · page 13 of 40
Life — February 7, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "A Dollar a Look"** This satirizes a carnival or sideshow setup where spectators pay to view something unusual. The scene depicts formal, well-dressed observers gathered to gawk at what appears to be a novelty attraction—likely mocking the public's appetite for sensationalism or voyeurism dressed up as entertainment. **Bottom Cartoon: "A Place in the Sun"** Two soldiers engage in combat. The caption suggests military ambition or competition for position/status, using "a place in the sun" (a phrase meaning desirable position). This likely comments on WWI-era militarism or soldiers' desperation for advancement. **Text Sections:** The prose passages discuss travel concerns and wartime experiences, referencing gas attacks and commute times, contextualizing the cartoons within broader WWI-era anxieties about combat and displacement.
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df i A DOLLAR A LOOK ney lasted, been compelled to grope their way in the dark. The question now arises for the anxious traveler about to make a journey on an American railroad under govern- ment control, wheth fter all, he ought to undertake such a journey; whether the sufferings he will undergo will pay him. Our advice is by all means for him to go. Life was never intended to be full of ease. But he ought to go, if for no other reason than this: that other human beings will be traveling with him, and the contemplation of their sufferings, the sense of comradship in a common fate, will give him a much higher sense of life’s real values than if he stayed at home and starved by his own refrigerator. An Old Experience “T HEAR Smith came through his first gas attack un- scathed.” “Yes, He didn’t mind it in the least. He used to ride home every night in the smoker of the five-fifteen.” “W/HAT time does your fat! Sue: You'll feel his hand in your hair in about ten minutes. The Depths “RILKINS and his wife are down on a war basis, aren't they?” “Well, you can't sink much lower, He's buying her clothes, and she’s buying his.” WANTED A PLACE IN THE SON