Life, 1922-02-02 · page 13 of 34
Life — February 2, 1922 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **Top cartoon**: Shows children mocking a man leaving home, with the caption referencing "Gomorrah." The accompanying text criticizes entertainment industry managers who exploit chorus girls, forcing them into degrading performances while claiming artistic merit. The satire targets the hypocrisy of those who justify morally questionable practices under the guise of art. **Bottom comic strip**: Three panels show children playing with a telescope, using crude language and misbehaving. One child tells another to look for "buttercups 'n fairies"—a contrast between innocent imagery and the children's coarse reality. The final panel shows a boy being sent to deliver a message, suggesting children's mischief and poor behavior. Both pieces satirize urban working-class life and children's unsupervised, rough behavior.
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Lot (whose wife has refused to let him go out with the boys): do not make the conditions which, in order to earn a living (and in many cases support persons dependent upon them), they are forced to overcome. They do not create the salacious bed- room farces and other sex atrocities which weary all decent people. And they are not responsible for those pruri- after Gomorrah! ent managers who, from motives of greed unrelieved by any artistic or pa- triotic instinct, insist upon inflicting these things upon a patient public. Chorus girls are made to suffer a large part of the obloquy of these things when they are, along with ours only victims. Zi M. Ss 7 ia Ss Ha! You just wait until the day Business New Chekk: You say the articles in this basket are ten and fifteen cents? How can | tell them apart? Proprietor: Easy enough to do that. Whichever ones the customers pick out are fifteen cents. _ “Look way in, Buddie, an’ ya'll see buttercups ’n fairies dancin’. What! don’t ya see no boidies n’ nothin’?” “Little boy, if you see Buddie, will you tell him I want him?” comicbooks.com