Life, 1920-11-25 · page 10 of 45
Life — November 25, 1920 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **Top cartoon**: A Sunday school scene mocking religious education. The teacher asks children about Bible study; a student asks "Why not?" and another responds "They told me if I came here I would just have a good time"—satirizing how Sunday school has become entertainment rather than serious religious instruction. 2. **Left article "How to Solve the Irish Question"**: Satirizes American politicians' obsession with the Irish vote. It proposes sending Irish-American sympathizers on a boat with supplies, suggesting they should leave America rather than constantly agitate about Irish independence—mocking their political influence and nostalgia. 3. **Right piece "No Man Could!"**: A humorous anecdote about a hired man's competitive nature with farm work, illustrating working-class pride and stubbornness.
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Sunday-School Teacher * Nor?” NOW, CHILDREN, WE WILL TAKE UP THE BIBLE TEXT. “WHY, THEY TOLD ME IF 1 CAME HERE 1 WOULD JUST HAVE A GOOD TIME.” How to Solve the Irish Question HE New York Nation is organizing a committee of one hundred impartial citizens to hear both sides of the Irish question, Sinn Fein, Black and Tan, Ulster and Cork, from representative wit- nesses. When this committee has heard the evidence, it will probably say, “ Dear, dear!" and go home. We would suggest a better solution. It has as its basis a committee, like that of the Nation, Only it should be made up of the following: All Sinn Fein sympathizers who go to Irish plays, cheer every other linc and hiss England. All apoplectic Britishers who go about demanding “the unrelenting use of force” in quelling uprisings. All actresses playing the parts of Irish colleens in this country. All actors playing the parts of half- witted Irish minnesingers. (Found chiefly in forward-looking barns in the Greenwich Village district.) All Trish tenors who quaver at the end of a high note. All American with the Irish vote in mind. All American anglophiles. This committee should be invited to meet on board one of the older of the Sandy Hook boats. After equipping it with a supply of bread and water, the boat should be taken out beyond the three- mile limit and lost. congressmen N° matter—Christian Science, “ween! THE INGS IN DiscuIsE!” UST BE ONE OF THOSE BLESS- No Man Could! HE brawny hired man pitched my grip into the back of the wagon, climbed to his seat and took the reins. After a silence I pursued the great topic. “Help scarce here?” “Wall, no; not so turrible sceerce; pretty considerable, though. We got red of one nuisance this morning.” “Lazy?” “Thunder, no! He done his own work and wanted to take hold of mine as well. Too pushing; too infringering. I calculated to be the first one at the barn mornings, but no matter if I got up before daylight-saving time, he was on’ hand. This morning I went out at three o'clock to get ahead of him, and there was the durn fool, whistling and rubbing down the horses! I couldn't stand that. No man could. I got a grouch on, and one of us had to go. He racked off about sunrise!” OST: A man can die but once. Parker: Once used to be enough. until these psychic experts got busy comicbooksi¢om)