Life, 1922-04-06 · page 16 of 38
Life — April 6, 1922 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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The central cartoon depicts a woman in fashionable 1920s attire with loose-fitting galoshes (rubber overshoes), captioned "Sloppy Galoshes (According to Sir John Suckling)." The satire mocks both women's fashion and pretentious literary references. The poem below ridicules how women wear galoshes loosely and messily rather than properly fastened—a small but visible fashion faux pas that contradicts the era's emphasis on put-together appearance. By attributing this observation to "Sir John Suckling" (a 17th-century poet), the cartoonist satirizes how critics use historical literary authority to comment on contemporary women's fashion choices, treating trivial sartorial matters with undeserved gravitas. The surrounding "Life Lines" offer other satirical one-liners on politics, Prohibition, and social trends of the period.
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ENATOR BORAH doesn’t believe Secretary Hughes wrote the treaty. Perhaps it was the ghost of Francis What this country needs now is a good picture of Joe Cannon without a cigar in his mouth. The baseball season is open, and the League of Nations is now one of the minor leagues. Bacon. aL Henry Ford may produce potash at Muscle Shoals, but it’s a good bet he doesn’t try to turn out any Perlmutters. aL Charity covers a multitude of ball- room gown descriptions. -L Indianapolis co-eds have discarded galoshes for high boots of the trout-fishing variety. There will be a lot of tall rubbering out there. LL The members of Congress, if laid end to end, would reach from Vladivostok almost to Baku, and a lot of people are in favor of it. dL Dirigibles are reported to be carry- ing beer cargoes from Milwaukee to Chicago. Where’s the Anti- Balloon League? JL According to the scientists we may suppose our first ancestors were Atom and Eveolution. aL Any flapper can dress on $87.55 a year provided she only has her hair dressed. A motor company offers a $1000 prize for the best ode on “The Spirit of Transportation.” Some bootlegging concern should do the same for the best ode on “The Transportation of Spirit.” JL Half the Senate is for beating our swords into ploughshares and the other half is for beating about the bush. Sloppy Galoshes (According to Sir John Suckling) H® feet below her calf-length skirt In huge galoshes loosely girt ] | LL “Gasoline and whisky do not mix,” said a sage magistrate of the traf- fic court. But apparently the boot- leggers don’t know about it. JL Our idea of a bad insurance risk is any one of the three men who have opened an office to adjust domestic difficulties. Thirty thousand dollars’ worth of beer was seized in New York. That much worth of the present kind of beer would be, roughly speaking, about six Pacific Oceans. +L Why not the House of Ineptre- sentatives? -L A prominent prohibition person says that the fines for violating prohibition laws will pay for their enforcement. At last the secret of perpetual motion ! aL There are 13,380,000 pessimists in the United States. We get our in- formation from the annual report of the telephone companies. aL A Harvard professor announces that George Washington had f, teeth, which explains why “Pack Jp Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag.and Smile, Smile, Smile” was not the marching song of the Revolutionary Army. aL Any man will testify that a camel can pass through the eye of a needle much more readily than thread will. Come flopping, left and right; - * And while she slosh d th “Bryan will run for the Senate Savants claim to have transmuted The wile ene 'sloehes onward:thus, SE ee hee ee 3 ; [he waltzing hippopotamus from Florida.”"—News Item. one metal into another. Shucks! : 5 P Tivgins : : Is not so fair a sight! Why not from Virginia or Mary- M For years the movie magnates fae f : : : A.G. | land? It’s a much shorter run. Af have been transmuting ivory into | dix A hi gold. L Draws $50 Fine and 30 Days for ic The Broadway play producer, like the Congress will keep on sending out seeds Kissing Woman.—Headline. cus Forty-niner, seems to be chiefly inter- till the constituents commence throw- He got off casy. The offender usu bit ested in pay dirt. ing back the vegetables, draws a life sentence. comicbooks.com