Life, 1921-01-20 · page 12 of 36
Life — January 20, 1921 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct items: 1. **"Sunday the Thirteenth"** - A poem by Mabel Haughton Collyer questioning whether modern life must be uniformly gray and restricted, using days of the week as metaphor. 2. **"Give a Thought to Blue"** - An editorial advocating for the color blue in everyday life, noting reformers' dismissal of it as frivolous. The author argues blue deserves appreciation. 3. **"Looking Backwards"** - A brief comedic dialogue between Howell and Powell about Powell's wife attending a New England conscience celebration in Plymouth, satirizing puritanical values. 4. **"When the Russian Ballet is Sovietized"** - A cartoon depicting dancers in exaggerated poses, apparently satirizing how Soviet ideology might transform classical ballet into something crude or propagandistic. The page also includes a daily quiz with five questions on various topics.
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“THIS PAPER SAYS THAT MILLIONS OF CHILDREN WILL STARVE THIS WINTER IN EUROPE. ” “OH, THAT REMINDS ME ! 1 FOKGOT TO FEE Fipo His CHOP, AND HE MUST 88 JUST STARVED.” Give a Thought to Blue SN'T it time somebody started a movement in behalf of blue? There's nothing the matter with blue. Really. The trouble is with the reformers. Blue is a good color, a first-rate color. Blue sky, blue blood, blue books, blue- jackets and blue grass are only some of the good blue things of this life that prove its worth, And true blue—as any popular song writer will tell you—is the one color that gets "em every time. We don't care what happens to Sun- day, but we hate to see a good color gone—or going—wrong. It isn’t fair The spirits, so we are assured in the very latest dispatches from the Beyond (see Albert S. Crockett’s Revelations of Louise), all wear robes of two colors—to wit, white and blue. So they think well of blue in the other world, too. Come. Let's get together, ladies and gentlemen, and start a Give a Thought to Blue campaign. Or something. Our mascot—the Bluebird. PW. Looking Backwards OWELL: Where is your wife? Powett: She has gone to Plymouth. to celebrate the three-hundredth anniver- sary of her New England conscience. WHEN THE RUSSIAN BALLET 1s SOVIETIZED. Sunday the Thirteenth Me&st the new morn Be a Blue morn? Must we backward turn to find The kind of day To while away The stalwart modern mind? Must the Sun day Be the one day When the sun is banned to all? Must our play day Be a gray day , Locked behind a prison wall? Must the rest day Be a pest day? Must we bore ourselves to death By boding ill From sitting still To curb each merry breath? Must the feast day Be the least day, Robbed of all the things we'd seek? Must our proud day Be a shroud day With rehearsals once a week? Mabel Haughton Collyer. Daily Quiz To-day’s Questions O YOU know: 1. What birds are often found in the air? 2. Who Carol? 3. Why some people have = more money than others, and why others have more than you? 4. The number of men who have said “T can either take a drink or leave it alone,” when they meant “I can neither leave a drink nor take it along?” s. Why it suit than a wrote Dickens’ Christmas is harder to law tailor-made? press a Auswe 1, Yes. 2. Some fish swim faster than others if they are in a hurry. 3. Many Americans speak English. 4. Few women go on hunger strikes because they can't have Home Rule. 5. One-third of the college professors can save enough money to buy a good dinner every fourth night. The other two-thirds have had a full course. sto Yesterday's Questions “WHat do they sell in that last garage besides gasoline, father?” “*Besides,’ my son? You mean ‘in- stead of."" comicbooks.com