Life, 1919-09-04 · page 9 of 48
Life — September 4, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**"The Heart of a Dog"** is a sentimental poem by Katharine Lee Bates celebrating dogs' capacity for loyalty and love, contrasting them favorably with humans' moral failings. **The cartoon** shows two men in formal attire with dog heads, titled "The Yank (his first experience in a London toy): 'How shall we know / The Britisher: Beastly simple, my dear fellow. We shan't be anywhere else.'" This satirizes American tourists in London, mocking their inability to distinguish themselves from British counterparts—a jab at American cultural pretension and lack of sophistication abroad. **"A Great Idea"** sarcastically proposes girls go barefoot until age sixteen, claiming a Tennessee physician advocates this to reduce shoe costs. The satire critiques absurd cost-cutting proposals while addressing gender and class concerns.
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The Heart of a Dog s\ HERE did they learn The miracle of love, nh es that turn From food and. sleep at our. light- whistled call, Eager to fling Their all Of speed and grace into glad lowing? Not the wolf Taught savage instinct love. For there to lack The power to slay was to be hunger- slain Once down, a prey, A stain Of crimson on the snow, a tuft of ay Was it from us They learned such loyal love Magnanimous, trustiul Meeting our with eyes Are we sv true, injuries So wise, So broken-hearted when love's day is through? Where did they learn The miracle of love? Though beauty burn In rainbow, foam and tame, these have not heard, Nor trees nor flowers That word, Only our dogs would give their lives for ours. Katharine Lee Bates “MOTHER, WILL YOU SPEAK TO popptE? STONES AT AN AERYPLANE The Vauk (his first expericuce ina London fog) Wow sivie WE KNOW WHEN WE GET THERE? MEASTLY SIMPLE, MY DEAK FELLOW, We WIEPRE PES? The Britisher SUAWN'T BE ANY- A Great Idea A Tennessee physician declares that all girls should are sixteen years old. barefoot until they the price of women’s shoes goes much higher, this Tennessee physician will be able to start a cult that will spread over the world like wildfire. Anti-shoe leagues will spring up like the mushroom and flourish like the ironwood Stru barefoot until they are fifty, sixty and even seventy years old. There is little doubt that a lot of our best people tree ling citizens will advocate making women go would be willing to advocate letting our women-folk get along without hats and waists and skirts, as well as shoes It looks as though this Tennessee physician had advanced He'd better capital- family HE'S THROWING an idea with tremendous possibilities: ize it, so that he can buy shoes for his comicbooks.com