Life, 1922-07-27 · page 12 of 36
Life — July 27, 1922 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This satirical page contains a central cartoon titled "An' the gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!" The image depicts goblin-like creatures threatening a human figure—likely referencing James Whitcomb Riley's famous children's poem "Little Orphant Annie" (1885), which used the "gobble-uns" threat to frighten children into obedience. The surrounding text consists of brief satirical quips about contemporary issues: Irish politics, shipping regulations, Egyptian archaeology, women's fashion, and coal miners' strikes. The cartoon appears to humorously apply Riley's cautionary tale framework to warn about modern social anxieties, though the specific contemporary threat being referenced remains somewhat unclear from the visible text alone.
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What the Irish need most is not a president, but a referee. -L The U. S. Shipping Board ought to change its name to The American Bar Association. aL The Constitution follows the jag. -L An Egyptian mum- my with bobbed hair has been found. They are digging for the goloshes now. LL “The dress of the modern young wo- man,” the Rev. J. W. Harrington views with alarm, “is just another er- ror’; but this un- official scorer, for one, would let it go as a hit. JL Let’s see—the coal miners still have the railroad men one up on strikes, haven't they? aL American tourists who have returned from Paris say that it cannot hold a scandal to Holly- wood. aL It is reported that the Kaiser is plan- ning a come-back. He has_ probably been encouraged by reading about Babe Ruth. on account of the distance he can travel on a small quantity of gas. aL No matter how athletic a girl may be nowadays, her swimming is never her long suit. “An’ the gobble-uns ‘ll. git you Ef you Don’t Watch Out!” In the contest for initial position, WJZ is creeping up on BVD. LL If a certain well-known newspaper man runs for Governor of New York next fall he'll have to change his name to Hearsed. JL It was merely “the gang” in the olden days. Then it be- came a “ring.” To- day it’s a “bloc.” +L Bulgaria has put a tax on short skirts, To be paid by the men, presumably. -L Senescence is the age at which a man either makes a monkey of himself or gets his surgeon to do it. Formerly, when a man’s vision com- menced to fail, he changed his glasses; now he changes his bootlegger. aL Nevertheless, the country keeps on trying bootleggers; perhaps in time it will try Prohibition. If someone doesn’t call another dis- armament confer- ence soon, Ireland and China will ex- haust the world’s supply of ammuni- tion. The favorite vege- JL NEwcastLe, ENG., July 25.—The Coal Carriers’ Con- vention attended a cinema show to- night and enjoyed a slow movie of the American Bonus bill passing. aL Henry Ford is, no doubt, being con- sidered as a presidential candidate The modern flapper is more to be petted than censured. -L A good many people will not take up wireless in a serious way until the Atlantic Monthly establishes a radio department. table of the New York police depart- ment appears to be the yegg plant. L “TI cannot sing the old songs;” I hear my neighbor sighing. “I cannot sing the old songs”; And yet she keeps on trying. comicbooks.com