Life, 1918-10-17 · page 10 of 38
Life — October 17, 1918 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a poem (section 18) praising "Eighteen" as Liberty's defender, followed by a story excerpt titled "The Essentials Were All There" about a film scenario. The main illustration shows an interior scene with two figures—apparently a man and woman in dramatic conversation or confrontation, likely from the film being discussed in the text. Below is a separate cartoon showing a boy playing on a fence with the caption addressing him as "naughty boy," warning him about playing on a fence in his "Sunday clothes" and threatening his shoes will wear out. Both items appear to be satirical commentary on American life, culture, and behavior, typical of Life magazine's early 20th-century editorial approach, though the specific historical context and references are unclear without additional dating information.
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“yoU NAUGHTY Boy! 18 EACE had light esteemed him As but a happy jest; War has rightly deemed him The fittest for the test Liberty's defender, He comes into his own; Hail him in his splendor— Eighteen is on his throne. Peer of all the sages, His mighty strength is hurled ; Man has seven ages, But Eighteen saves the world MeLandburgh Wilson. The Essentials Were All There HE known and most reliable moving leading author of the best picture melodrama in the stood before the chief country proprictor of the great film company, and said: wonder ful nd mystery, “| have just finished a five-reel scenario of love and if you will sit down with me for 2 few moments, | will go over the plot with you in detail.” The film proprietor passed his hand wearily over his Olympian brow and said: “ Have you put in your story a death bed scene, in which the dying person is lying in bed screened by mosquito WHAT DO You MEAN BY PLAYING-ON THAT BARBED-WIRE IN THAT WOULDN YOUR SUNDAY CLOTHES?” YOU TOL’ ME TO PLAY AT SOMETHIN’ 'T WEAR OUT MY SHOES.” GBIwoon +4 Householder: LOOK WERE, MR, BURGLAR, BEFORE YOU GO CAN'T I SELL YOU A COUPLE OF LIBERTY BOND netting, in the presence of a messenger boy and the usual number of relatives, banked by flowers?” “T have.” “Have you scene?” “ Certainly ; pressing child to bosom; with enlarge- ment showing child playing with pet kitten?” “Good the regulation bi showing glad mother Does hero cover heroine's face with kisses?” ven times, or about a thousand “Do concealed you show woman looking onion until the rea flow slowly down her cheeks?” “ Of course.” SUREST THING You kK Now.” “Ts through mansion, climbs up side of house in the pale night fatal ecret?” “That has to be The proprietor waved his hand “Then why bother me with the plot? there a villain’ who grounds of elegant creeps country and discovers he said, Warming RIG Chairman Kitchin of the Ways and Means Committee ap- pears to be more reconciled to than he was. Grices: Well, you see, he is now be ginning to realize the benefit the South will receive from it. war