Life, 1919-06-19 · page 12 of 42
Life — June 19, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Illustration: "The Observation Balloon"** A sketch showing two figures in a hot air balloon observing a landscape. The romantic/sentimental imagery appears to contrast with satirical verse below titled "Surprise," which mocks the clichés of love and courtship ("The sweetest love I have ever known / Bidding-love come and claim its own!"). **Middle Section: "New Crop"** A brief comedic dialogue between a car dealer and customer about selling expensive cars to oil-boom workers. The joke satirizes post-boom consumerism—workers suddenly wealthy from oil strikes are being sold luxury vehicles at inflated prices. **Bottom Cartoon: "Cook: What's Happened?"** Shows domestic chaos: a woman (the cook) discovers the household singing lullabies instead of sleeping. The caption's humor lies in the absurd reversal of normal household order.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Surprise N paths that lead by burn and swale, I have surprised the galingale ; And startled in the noonday hush The dreaming of the hermit-thrush ; Caught many a robber like the bee Busied with honied thievery But [ have sensed the great surprise In the confession of your eyes, ‘The sweetest | have ever known Bidding love come and claim its own! Clinton Scollard. New Crop “YYOU must sell a lot of expensive cars to the fellows who worked in munition factories.” “That demand is pretty well sup- plied now,” responded the dealer. “We've just put an extra fine car on the market for the fellows who struck it rich in the oil boom.” Covk: wiat’s HAPPENED? “WHY, THE MissUS*WAS SINGING A LULLABY, AND EVERYBODY WINT TO SLEEP EXCIPT THE BAnY”