Life, 1918-11-28 · page 31 of 34
Life — November 28, 1918 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with satirical commentary on post-WWI exhaustion. **Main Satire: "We Shall Be Tired"** Written during or shortly after World War I, this essay argues that American soldiers and war workers will return home exhausted. The author notes that popular pre-war remedies for fatigue (European travel, German spas) will be unavailable. However, the piece argues the *truly* restorative solution is having soldiers return home and resume their normal work—implying that war work itself is what has depleted the nation, and only resuming civilian productivity will provide relief. **"A Wanderer" Anecdote** A brief racist joke depicting an elderly Black woman ("Aunt Liza") misunderstanding her son's letter from France, confusing "Somewhere in France" with literal geographic confusion. This reflects period stereotypes and casual racism in American humor. **"A Club for Sailors and Soldiers"** Describes the Château-Thierry Club in New York offering recuperation space for hospitalized servicemen—a practical charitable response to veteran needs. The surrounding advertisements (hair removal, compass gifts, hotel promotions) are standard commercial content of the era.
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I tol’ dat fool nigger he’s goin’ git los’ ef he went to France.” “LIFE: Golf enthusiasts will revel in the wonderful condition of the Fair Pinchurat this se reservedly, they are un- Saualled “anywhere in the THE CAROLINA HOTEL England Fall weather be Cocted ea fer Novester ead December, TRaP SHOOTIN RIDING, MOTORING TENNIS For Bull lnformation Address Office, Pineharst, N.C. or LEONARD TUFTS, 282 Congres Steet, Beat We Shall Be Tired (Continued from page 792) when ships can be spared to fetch it, and ships are building fast, and the business of sinking them has sus- pended. Eventually the tired people will get more than the indispensable minimum of food, but how will they get rested? The most popular remedy for the tired feeling among the more prospered of us, has been to go to Europe. That remedy will be suspended for some time.. For excessive fatigue, the Ger- man baths used to be popular. Those that survive the war—if any do—will be needed by the Germans, among whom the need of recuperation will be even more urgent than with the rest of us. Perhaps the great “drive” industry will be suspended. That will be a help. And the people who have been making munitions will quit that employment, and may rest for awhile on their sav- ings. And possibly there will be a let- up in anxiety, for though the problems of peace will be fairly anxious, they will not be so hazardous as war. The most restful thing will be to have our men come home from France and get back to the work that belongs to them, and shoulder again the re- sponsibilities which the tired people have been carrying for them. Two per cent. of the population might doubtless be spared without inducing general fatigue if the selection was made to that end. But our two million who went to France were not picked be- cause we could spare them, but on quite a different basis. And the two million more who are in training, and the huge number of people not in khaki whose business has beer the or- ganization and promotion of war— when we get all these back on the job of making life endurable and doing the work of it, it will be restful. But how tired will they be when they come home? Ah, but war is a weary job! A Club for Sailors and Soldiers HATEAU-THIERRY CLUB in New York, at the east end of Fifty-third Street, opposite Blackwell's Island, is right on the high bank of the East River, and the soldiers and sailors from hospitals in that neighborhood who come there never lack movement in the river picture they look out on. The club is not large—a single, four- story, twenty-foot house—but it is pleasant, and useful where it is, and gives a change of view and location to the convalescent men who come there. 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