Life, 1920-03-25 · page 14 of 40
Life — March 25, 1920 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon depicts a restaurant scene where diners observe someone eating boiled eggs for breakfast. The caption indicates this is meant as social commentary—eating boiled eggs is characterized as "vulgar ostentation," suggesting the joke targets nouveau riche or working-class pretension about what constitutes refined dining. Below are two brief text sections: "A Story for the Drys" references Prohibition-era humor (the "drys" being anti-alcohol activists), joking about tarantulas aboard banana ships from Jamaica. "Next in Order" presents a dialogue between an old lady and a child about candy, likely a gentle humor piece. The page also includes an illustration titled "The Buffalo Hunt," depicting what appears to be a historical frontier scene—unrelated to the other content.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
1 Wie ML {| il il q \ “OH, LOOK, HENRY! THE MAN AT THE NEXT TABLE IS HAVING TWO BOILED EGGS FOR BREAKFAST.” “ MERE VULGAR OSTENTATION, MY DEAR.” A Story for the Drys HE Conservation Commission of the State of New York is quite justified in its crusade against violators of the game laws protecting frogs. No doubt there should be a closed season on frogs, but a constitutional amendment might be necessary to enforce it now, inasmuch as this is leap year. HEN the Princess May was lying last month in the harbor of Port Maria, Jamaica, “a tarantula was seen to shoot across the floor of the stewards’ messroom.” So the World says, anyhow, and re- lates that a tarantula hunt immediately proceeded on that ship. Rum is practically free in Jamaica; very cheap and little persecuted. So maybe the stewards’ bug-vision had been reinforced. It is averred, how- ever, that in this case the bug was real, and was caught and killed, and people do say that actual tarantulas do transpire on banana ships. But the drys can have the story. Next in Order IND OLD LADY (who has just given Ted some candy): And now what do you say, my dear little man? “Got any more?” THE BUFFALO HUNT comicbooks.com