Life, 1919-06-26 · page 11 of 43
Life — June 26, 1919 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"A Garden Colloquy"** - A poem by Arthur Wallace Peach about wind and roses, presented in verse format. 2. **"Aviation—Old Style"** - A silhouette illustration of an early airplane against a moon, labeled as such. This appears to be a humorous nostalgic reference to primitive aviation. 3. **"The Coming Day"** - A satirical essay where "Day" (the leftover day in the calendar) introduces itself. It proposes a 13-month calendar system called "Liberty Month," attributing the idea to Joseph U. Barnes. The satire mocks this proposal by imagining radical social changes: fixed holidays, free-verse poets performing constantly, closed movie theaters, and husbands doing housework. It's social commentary on calendar reform and modern life anxieties. **"The House That Appendicitis Built"** - An architectural illustration showing an elaborate estate, likely satirizing wealth or medical procedures.
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“LIFE: A Garden Colloquy he twilight wind to the rose, Said the rose to the twilight wind, aused in the garden As he paused in the garden still: of the June, you pass, “O wind of the hills, my day have an endless day. Is the gift of a holy will hush of the autumn night, “He gives unto each the same, dark of the autumn dawn, A measure of joy and grief; © your garden haunt And yours is the gift of years, ou forever gone.” Mine of a summer brief!” Arthur Wallace Pe AVIATION —¢ The Coming Day LLOW me to introduce myself. My name is Day, I am the Day that is left over. Never heard of me? I will explain, You sec, it is now proposed by the Equal Month Calendar Association to have thirteen months in every year, calling the extra month Liberty Month, Mr. Joseph U. Barnes says that this would be an immense help. All dates and holidays would be fixed. Every month would have twenty-eight days, this making up three hundred and sixty-four days. In leap year d that comes then will be sandwiched in. But I am the Day that is left over each year. What are you going to do about me? Mr. Barnes says I can he called New Year's Da; dd can come in between December 28th and January ist. But I ought to have something to say about it, A lot can happen ina day. 1f Lam to be set aside, 1 should like to make a proposition to the rest of the calendar. Let me be a day when all the profiteers will stop profiteering, clergymen and congressmen will be silent, authors will write, not for money, but for art; dramatists will ignore the Jews, all the movies will close, all scenery adver- tisements will be taken down, women will clothe themselves properly and politics will adjourn. All husband. can do then as they please. Strikers will go back to work. Free-verse poets THE HOUSE THAT APPENDICITIS BUILT will be shot every fifteen minutes. comicbooks.com