Life, 1919-07-31 · page 16 of 40
Life — July 31, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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**Top Illustration ("The Sweetest Grass Grows Near the Fence"):** Two riders on horseback approach a farm gate, likely depicting a rural or pastoral scene. The caption's meaning is unclear without fuller context. **"Overweighted" Joke:** A darkly comic quip about a woman named Marie who drowned while wearing all her engagement rings—satirizing female vanity and materialism. The rings weighed her down, making her sink. **"Around the Lamp" Section:** This satirizes Prohibition (the 18th Amendment) through personified amendments debating enforcement. The 18th Amendment jokes about the gap between the 14th and 18th amendments being long, but the time between drinks won't be. The father figure (Constitution) ignores this banter about drinking alcohol during Prohibition—suggesting widespread flouting of the law. **"The Art of Camouflage":** Two female figures in contrasting dress styles, likely commenting on fashion or social presentation, though the specific satire remains unclear.
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TIE SWEETEST CRASS CROWS NEAR THE PENCE clothes so often for money in such large sums. solations must be welcome. As the habit of disbursement Any con- already so well started, grows stronger, it may become Now, while French cham- pagne is shut off, what other luxury can we better spend money for than teaching? Teachers should not be invited to lives of perpetual sacrifice and self-denial. They should be able to live like other people, with moderate ostentation —Ford-car ostentation, say—and should have food, clothes and houses, and means eventually to raise and educate two or three children apiece. Otherwise the teacher's calling will not call to desirable people, or, if it does, they will not dare to heed it. more and more easy to let go. Every now and then you will get a great man of some kind, out of private education, and he will be different from the great man of public education, and the difference will be valuable. All education should not be tax-paid and subject to political control. Some of it should be kept irre- sponsible to governors and legislatures. That is a safe- guard against such perversion of education as lately har pened to Germany under the rule of Prussia. E. S. Martin. Overweighted “GO poor Marie was drowned. How in the world did it happen?” “The vain creature! She wore all of her engagement rings when she went in swimming. Around the Lamp AID the Fourteenth Amendment to the Eighteenth Amendment: “It’s a long time between enfgrcements.” Said the Eighteenth Amendment to the Fourteenth: “But it won't be a long time between drinks.” And Papa Constitution kept reading The Signs of the Times and pretended he didn’t hear. THE ART OF CAMOUFLAGE comicbooks.connal