Life, 1922-09-14 · page 11 of 40
Life — September 14, 1922 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces: **"Within the Law"** (left column): A satirical legal dialogue where a lawyer discusses a tort case involving a trolley accident. The satire mocks legal technicalities and precedent-based reasoning—the lawyer cites obscure case law to explain why the client's straightforward injury claim is actually complicated. **"Pan"** (right column): A poetic piece contrasting Arcady (idealized pastoral landscape with Pan playing pipes) with modern industrial reality—a large hotel and jazz cabaret have replaced the pastoral fields. The satire laments how commercialism destroys natural beauty and classical mythology. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts figures reclining outdoors. The caption shows one person (Père/Father) asking about finding a patient milliner, as he lacks money. The humor involves financial desperation masked by casual conversation. The page satirizes legal absurdity, nostalgia for lost pastoralism, and economic hardship.
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Within the Law “ Y wife was hit by a trolley and I want to sue the company,” said the client. “Well,” said the lawyer, adjusting his gold-rimmed glasses, “under the rule of stare decisis as laid down in the Weemick Case, reported in thirty-four Missouri, it is doubtful whether quo warranto will lie, although there is vbiter in the—” e’s all black and blue and it hurts,” said the client. —obiter in the Epstein Case,” continued the lawyer, “which appears to hold contra despite the strong dissent by Rafferty J. It’s a pretty question.” “The trolley was on the wrong side of the road,” said the client. rhe amendments of 1887 limit the application of cer- tiorari to torts, quasi contracts and causes eiusdem gen- eris. For example: suppose A is seized in fee tail of a messuage with remainder over to B. C enters A’s close under color of title not amounting to quare clausum fregit and asports B’s hereditaments. Quare, does cour- tesy attach ?” “My wife was hit by a trolley—” began the client gain, You have an excellent case,” said the lawyer. “We shall start suit at once. My retainer is thirty-five dol- lars. Thank you.” N.L. Transpose Them! [HE immigration law contains a 3% provision; the prohibition law, a 14% provision. If these percentages were exchanged, great might be the rejoicing thereat. Pan | baie time agone in Arcady, across the fields of Arcady, Strode Father Pan a-piping to the shepherds in the glade, While fauns with roses garlanded danced gaily to his melody, And nymphs came trooping merrily to frolic as he played. The shepherd folk of Arcady forsook their flocks with rustic glee To follow in the wood god's train across the scented mead, The violets and daffodils in rhythmic time swayed lazily, While Father Pan adown the field went piping on his reed. But now there stands a large hotel where once were fields of asphodel, And all night long in Arcady the blaring trombones play. And there Pan plays the saxophone, the clarinet and traps as well, For Father Pan, where once he ruled, plays in a cabaret. He sways his body wearily in cadence with the melody And dreams of Spring in Arcady—the only dreams he has. The wild-eyed dancers leap and whirl in Corybantic revelry. The gods are gone from Arcady and Pan is playing jazz. Flaccus. By the way, Lucille, I need some new hats and I won’t have any money for ever so long. Do you happen to know of a good patient milliner? comicbooks.com