Life, 1920-05-06 · page 18 of 56
Life — May 6, 1920 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts St. Peter at heaven's gate turning away a well-dressed man carrying a suitcase, telling him he must join the "Amalgamated Angels' Brotherhood"—a satirical jab at exclusive fraternal organizations and their membership requirements, suggesting even entry to heaven requires bureaucratic membership cards. Below, "The Point of View" poem by Ada Kyle Lynch uses a donkey as metaphor for perspective: humans mock the donkey's braying, yet the donkey "renders harmonies divine" to those who listen differently. It advocates for tolerance and suggests what offends one ear may please another—likely social commentary on differing opinions or values. "Happy Moments in Two-Room Light Housekeeping" humorously catalogs the domestic frustrations of living in cramped apartments: collapsing furniture, unexpected guests, pets to care for, nosy landlords, and friends' visits in inadequate space. It satirizes the working-class reality of small urban housing, contrasting romantic ideals of married life with mundane reality.
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Ue: ore St. Peter: The Point of View You would not wish to hear it all day long ; Yet when the humans ery: "The donkey brays!” How do. they donkey prays. know? Perhaps the To ears attuned—but not to yours and mine The donkey renders harmonies divine ; Yet should your voice and mine in peeans blend, Who knows what donkey-ears it might offend? Ada Kyle Lynch. AMALGAMATED ANGELS’ BROTHERTIOOD: Happy Moments in Two-Room Light Housekeeping HEN the table, upon which you are stccess- camouflaged — cutting- fully serving a jolly little imprompin luncheon, suddenly folds up, bombard- ing the guest of honor’s new suit with fried oysters and potato salad When the “thought she'd come right up” arrives at that desolate and chaotic hour before the beds are made up and disguised as a bookcase and an Oriental divan. When the telephone bell rings, just as the breakfast bacon must be turned informal friend who or ruined. When the long-winded landlady dis- courses of her intimate ills and opera- - BEFORE 1 LET YOU IN YOU'LL, HAVE TO TAKE OUT A CARD FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE tions, while John, who has taken cover in the other room, waits feverishly to get back to his chiffonier and tinish dressing. When Cousin Belle sends you her darling Chow-Chow, to be cared for until she returns from her honeymoon, When Aunt whom you can't afford to offend, breaks up house- keeping and gives you her pet Vic- Amanda, torian le—the one with the bologna satisage-marble top and the bowle,s When a couple of John’s friends drop in for the evening, and they smoke and smoke, and talk and and “ there’s nowhere to go but out When you think of the perfectly good house you used to live in, with a yard ‘n everything. comicbooks.com