Life, 1921-02-17 · page 8 of 34
Life — February 17, 1921 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page features **Life's advice column**, newly launched, inviting readers to submit questions. The illustrated cartoon at top shows a man fleeing an office building labeled "GOING SOUTH FOR HIS HEALTH"—likely satirizing the Victorian euphemism for seeking medical treatment or escape from urban life. The column includes reader letters addressing topics like growing flowers and identifying an artist ("Reuben's Descent from the Cross"). **"Abyssinian Home-Brew"** (bottom) is a three-panel comic strip showing someone collecting palm tree sap in a large pot, progressively attracting wild animals and chaos. The captions ("Um-m! me get bottles," "wow!", "Oh, boy!") suggest fermentation gone humorously wrong, poking fun at crude alcohol production.
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Our Own Intimate Column (Lire inaugurated this novel depart- ment ina recent issue, and it has been h instantancous favor by le circle of readers. This senti- ment of approbation is only natural, in view of the fact that the Intimate Column is for, of and by the readers themseclves—it is for them to compose and conduct as they see fit.) NE of our readers has written in to suggest that we form a Ouija Klub, and we consider that this is really a fa- mous idea, though somewhat belated. He says if we will propound a question in this column, all of our followers who still have ouija boards will send us in any an- swers that they may receive from the spirit world. Here is the question: When do waiters eat? eee Dear Lire: I love flowers of every kind—in fact, one might almost say that 1 am a “Nature fan”—and I am espe- cially addicted to dandelions. Whenever 1 go past a big estate that has swarms of these fragrant little golden blossoms all over the lawn, I begin to feel real envious and wonder why I, too, can’t have them in my yard. Can any of your readers tell me where I can go to get dandelion bulbs, and what is the best system for their culture ?—Acrico.a, eee Dear Lire: Can anyone tell me the name of the artist who painted “ Reuben’s Descent from the Cross "?—Otp Master. eee Mitorep is just going to Palm Beach, and wants the readers of this column to suggest the ten best books in the English ME GO GET BOTTLES. COING SOUTH FOR HIS HEALTH. language to provide entertainment during the dull hours when the boys go tarpon- fishing. She says that you need not in- clude the following works, as she has al- ready read them all at one time or another in her life: The Swiss Family Robinson, Jurgen, The Mill on the Floss, This Side of Paradise, most of Rabelais, and the December 1st issue of The Compositors’ and Typesetters’ Monthly. eee No, Dovores, the Prince of Wales is not married yet; and you will make a much bigger hit if you don't spell it “ Whales” when you write to him. eee We want to make this column repre- sentative of every one of our readers, so we intend to start a Kiddies’ Korner ABYSSINIAN HOME-BREW just as soon as ever we can. All that is holding us back now is a lack of letters from the little ones. Why not send us in some cute sayings, mothers and fathers, and help us to get started? Maybe ’Tis Here IVES of great men oft remind us That there'll surely come a time When our virtues will be sounded In most execrable rhyme, His Age HE: Why, how old you are! He: What did you expect? “They told me you were a minor poei.” “BRANK'S a great politician” “What party does he belong “AML of them.” CF tf “on, Boy!” comicbooks.com