Life, 1919-03-20 · page 12 of 44
Life — March 20, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon:** "Wanted: A Federal Anti-Loafing Law" depicts a group of well-dressed people of various ages and apparent social classes sitting and lounging idly. The satire critiques proposed federal anti-loafing legislation by showing that "loafing" (leisure, idle sitting) is a common activity across all social strata—implying such a law would be impractical or hypocritical to enforce. **Text Articles:** - "Purely Interpretive" mocks interpretive dance as physical expression requiring minimal training - "Forewarned is Forewarned" is a brief domestic humor piece about a woman taking "domestic silence lessons" **Bottom Cartoon:** "Cleaning House—But Who Will Want to Live In It?" appears to comment on post-war social/political upheaval, though context is unclear. The page critiques both social pretensions and impractical legislation through humor.
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WANTED: A PRDERAL Purely Interpretative interpretative dance is now established on a more or less firm footing. Any young, healthy girl who Wishes to get her name in the papers, loves fresh air and exercise, and is not afraid of taking cold, can become an interpretative dancer in the course of a few weeks She will first have to acquire the initial stages, such as around like an angle worm After she her emo- lying on the grass, crawlin and using her arms like a six-cylinder windmill has learned these primitive ways of express tions she can branch out, learn how to take a flying leap at 1 a stone wall, do double somersaults over boxwood hedges, and, wrapped only in a package of coarse hreakiast food, lope over convenient hurdles. The idea of the interpretative dance, as everyone is now beginnin, Low 1 re fecling by Most under a calm and suspect, is to the way you act and the fewer clothes you wear. us are trying to conceal our real feel dignified exterior, ndons this idea utterly. The interpretative dancer al: She is what we may call a physical radical If she true artist is likely to do, she She believes in acting out, no matter what happens has missed her train, as a believes in showing it hy tearing about, pulling up the grass and playing HE man who is not injured hy flattery is as hard to find as the one who is improved by criticism ANTICLOAPING LAW Forewamed is Forearmed YOUNG society woman called one morning to sce a A her hosom friend. o, ma‘am, Miss Alice is not in,” the maid informed “She has gone to the class.” “Why, what class?" inquired the caller in surprise. “Well, ma’am,” explained the maid, “you know Mice is getting married soon, so she’s taking a course of kessons in domestic silence el CLEANING BUT WHO WILL WANT TO LIVE IN 1T? HOUSE