Life, 1919-05-22 · page 9 of 42
Life — May 22, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top frieze depicts various athletic activities in silhouette—gymnastics, baseball, and other sports—suggesting physical vigor and competition. The main article, "As It Is," discusses international relations during what appears to be WWI or its aftermath. The author critiques how different nations view each other negatively: the French dislike Germans, English dislike Italians, and so forth. The piece argues for neighborly duty and mutual respect despite these prejudices. The bottom illustration, captioned "Why I Ordered Everything on the Breakfast Menu," shows a domestic scene of a man and woman at breakfast. The humor appears to rely on an unstated visual joke about the man's nervous or anxious expression, though the specific punchline isn't entirely clear from the image alone.
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verybody knows that it is not safe underestimate Japanese ability, but is not so much appreciated that it not safe to underestimate Japanese If the Western world insists om regarding the Japs as self-seek- tricksters and liars, they may so ort themselves as to live up to the tegrity Xpectation that that attitude invites. no nation is more capable of meet- ~ the highest and noblest expecta- ms, if she feels that it is up to her » be good and that her friends expect of her. And, oh, the other people! Most of AS IT 1S them distressed, harried, bereaved, half-starved, to death, fearful of the future, perplexed what to do, and none too successful in disguising their distrust of all strangers. Most of them don’t even like us, though we are just now the luckiest members of family and probably the France taxed the human best soldier in writes us how mean the French are; a magazine editor tells us privately how almost universally the English dislike us. And the Italians, so lately our dear friends, have thrown us down, disposed. A and the Spaniards don’t sit up to love us, and the Poles probably think we are quitters, and the Belgians must be yout ready to see selfishness in our dealings with them. Never mind. Wi firm friends in great matters of all these people, and of the Irish, and of the Jews, and of the Russians and and must must still be the Mexicans and Chinese, recognize a duty even to the Germans To love one’s neighbor is not an exer- cise that depends on what one’s neigh- It is the great duty see it hor thinks of one. of the through hour, and we must WHY 1 ORDERED EVERYTHING ON THE BREAKFAST MENU comicbooks.com