Life, 1919-01-30 · page 10 of 34
Life — January 30, 1919 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces from what appears to be the post-WWI era: **"To Any Mother"** is a poem by Mary Gosse Wadsworth about choosing between love and art as life paths. **"Trained"** is a brief joke about a bachelor claiming he's married while folding napkins. **"Another Reason Why Most Officers Favor Militarism"** is a cartoon showing military officers with exaggerated physiques, satirizing how military uniforms flatter larger men's appearances. **"A Dark Future"** discusses Federal spending concerns following WWI's sudden end, warning about eighteen-billion-dollar expenditures. **"Fame and Fortune"** contrasts a soldier who won the Croix de Guerre with a profiteer who became a millionaire—criticizing wartime profiteering versus military sacrifice. The overall theme critiques post-war society's values and government spending priorities.
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To Any Mother ] ate had crossed your path one day, With lofty mien and gentle voice. And said, “1 have within my sway Two gifts: I grant your choice.” And one had been an artist's fame With laurels fair to grace your brow ; The other, motherhood, the same Love-blessings you have now: And you had counselled with your heart Would you have chosen Love or Art? Yet there be women, nothing loath, Who smile on Fate, and win them bot Mary Gow Wadsworth, Trained AYJHAT makes you think Baird has been married? He swears he's a : bachelor.” | Gules Thad him out to dinner the other + night, and he folded his napkin. He's been married, all right.” The Airedale: 11 CERTAINLY 1S GREAT TO HAVE THE LOVE OF A REAL MAN Here To-day, Gone To-morrow HIE man was an interested listener to both of them. Said the first: “Tf ever you lose me, I can be found in gymnasiums, in boarding-houses, in long walks to the office.” Said the second: “As for me, guard me carefully, for I am irrecoverable. Once lost, 1 am gone forever.” “Tam slimness,” said the first. “Tam hair,” said the other. ANOTHER REASON WHY MOST OFFICERS FAVOR MILITARISM A Dark Future ANY of our most patriotic citizens have doubt- less noted with consternation the announce- ment made from Washington that our Federal penditure for the coming year will be only nine- teen billions of dollars. This trivial sum is due to the fact that the war stopped so suddenly; other- wise we could hope for better things. What we fear, howe is the moral effect upon our legislators at Washington when they begin to discover that they have so little to do. With the expenditure of thirty or thirty-five billions a y almost any Congress can be fairly well occupied. But what is going to happen now to these conscientious gentlemen when they have only nineteen billions to spend in twelve long months? FAME AND FORTUNE He was only a soldier, and he was a profiteer; it isn’t so. He won the Croix de Guerre, and he a million clear. ] F you see it in the “ movies” comicbooks.com