Life, 1920-07-22 · page 16 of 40
Life — July 22, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct items: 1. **"A Song of the Sea"** by Joseph Andrew Galahad—a romantic poem about sailors and ocean life, accompanied by an illustration of a mermaid with a man in classical style. 2. **"Temperament"** — a brief joke about Madame Pirot winning at bridge, playing on the idea that concentration helps suppress disagreeable behavior. 3. **"High Cost of Living"** — a dialogue joke where a recently married woman complains her husband lost ten dollars; her friend notes she should be grateful he didn't lose twenty (implying husbands spend money foolishly). This satirizes both marital dynamics and postwar inflation concerns. The bottom illustration shows "Pathetic Figures: The Simple Parent of a Child Prodigy"—likely mocking parents who boast about gifted children.
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A Song of the Sea ‘¥ THs is a song of the open— (Aye, aye, sir!) This is a song of the sea This life is a bit of a jolly short gleam, Like the frost on the pane. And we rove and we dream Through our swift little hour in a bark wild and free. This is a song of the sea! We lift up our faces, wind-tanned, to the skies, Where the moon on her day couch of azure blue lies: Clear to the rim of her— Clear to the brim of her— And far and far over the farthest star, We shall sail when the Last Ship shall call us— (Aye, aye, sir!) This is the song of a tar! ' This is a song of the ocean— (Aye, aye, sir!) This is a song of the waves. ” Where the mankiller lurks and the coral reef grows, Where the treacherous tide of the undertow flows, There are hundreds and hundreds of graves. This is a song of the waves! And over the earth women mourn them as dead— But never a sailor lies deep in the Of the kelp and the sea things: The soul of each sails and sings Gaily through time and space—happy and free. The soul of a sailor's immortal— (Ay This is a song of the sea! Joseph Andrew Galahad, aye, si Temperament HAT old Madame Pirot must have been win- ning at bridge.” “How do you know?” AN ILLUSTRATION FOR AN UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF “ROBINSON CRUSOE” “Why, it's all she can do to keep from being disagreeable.” Helping Out Nature N the search for increased production it has been discovered that phonographic music at milking time in winter makes cows give eleven per cent. more milk, and that electric light and steam heat make hens lay better. So man’s improvements continue to beat nature. Next to come are sanitariums for exhausted cows, and rest-cure fac- tories for treating hens that have overdone. { High Cost of Living IRST LADY (recently married): You know, dear, all he said when I told him I had lost the ten dollars he gave me in the morn- ing was, “What a shame!” and gave me another. Seconp Lavy (thoughtfully): What a pity you didn’t lose twenty dollars ! PATHETIC FIGURES THE SIMPLE PARENT OF A CHILD PRODIGY