Life, 1920-12-16 · page 32 of 45
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**The Main Cartoon ("At the Club"):** Two wealthy clubmen discuss one considering running for Congress. The joke mocks upper-class snobbery—the friend warns that politics involves "beastly vulgarity" and ill-fitting clothes, yet the would-be candidate claims he'd endure these indignities for his country. The satire targets the aristocratic attitude that public service is beneath gentlemen, while simultaneously suggesting such men are disconnected from ordinary concerns. **"Queen of the Brassie":** A light romantic song celebrating a woman named Jeanie MacTassie, who excels at golf (a "brassie" is a golf club). The poem contrasts her athletic prowess with other fashionable women's accomplishments. **"Hail, Brothers!"** and **"Social Item":** Contrasting pieces—one praising the Salvation Army's Depression-era charity work and message that "a man may be down, but he's never out"; the other satirizing wealthy women's moral bankruptcy through the story of Mrs. De Courcey Broun stealing from her washwoman and maid.
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AT THE CLUB “BY JOVE, OLD CHAPPIF, I THINK I'LL TRY TO RUN FOR CONGRESS!” “ HORRID IDEA, BERTIE! “DEAR BOY, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME. WH YOU COULDN'T STAND THE BEASTLY VULGARITY OF IT,” I'D BE READY TO WEAR TOGS THAT DON’T FIT ME, IF 1 THOUGHT I COULD DO ANYTHING FOR MY COUNTRY.” Queen of the Brassie pxpot May loves a game of cro- quet; Tennis Margie’s delight ; Dora can fly like a bird through the sky, Steering her plane out of sight. Swimming with skill is a passion with Jill, Rowing enraptures Marie; But Jeanie MacTassie Is queen of the brassie, And Jean is the lassie for me! Vivia’s car has the flash of a star When she drives it on high through the park; Antoinette’s dancing is simply entrancing, And Barbara sings like a lark. I'm fond of each maid in a way—I'm afraid My heart is a trifle too free; But Jeanie MacTassie Is queen of the brassie, And Jean is the lassie for me! Mabel Haughtop Collyer. Hail, Brothers! kind of work the Salvation Army undertook to do during the war was the kind of work the Army always is do- ing, and therefore is always ready to do. Last September the Salvationists de- tected the first visible signs of unemploy- ment. Weeks before anybody else had begun to pay much attention to it, the Sal- vationists were laying plans. They estab- lished soup kitchens in New England for the mill workers who were laid off, and now they are asking the public to help them supply free Christmas dinners to worthy families who otherwise would go without dinner—perhaps without food of any kind—on Christmas Day. How many of these families will there be? The Sal- vationists estimate 300,000 or more. A large number. Along with the dinner goes the Salva- tionist messag A man may be down, but he’s never out.” Not a bad gospel to be spreading when unemployment is abroad in the land, Social Item OCIETY was shocked on Wednesday last to read of the arrest of Mrs. De Courcey Broun, who was caught purloin- ing a diamond pendant, valued at five hundred dollars, from the bag of her washwoman, who was at that time in the act of hanging out Mrs. De Courcey Broun’s Monday wash. We are sorry to learn that this is not Mrs. Broun’s first offense, as she was seen in a pawnshop last winter trying to dis- pose of her second maid’s two-thousand- dollar fur coat. This offense was espe- cially deplorable, as it represented the poor maid’s hard earnings for nearly six months, OUISE: money on hair treatment and hair tonic? Juura: Why not? Louise: You'll need all that cash a little later to buy hair. Why do you spend so much comicbooks.com