Life, 1923-01-18 · page 10 of 36
Life — January 18, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate pieces: **"My Husband Says"** (left): A domestic advice column where a woman describes her husband's skepticism about her leading a "Girls' Someday Club"—an organization that takes young girls on hikes and outings. His concern: she lacks experience and the girls need proper leadership. The satire mocks traditional gender attitudes about women's competence in leadership roles, suggesting husbands doubted wives' abilities to organize or lead activities, even recreational ones. **"Improving on the Catalogues"** (right): A technical discussion with Professor Blotter about measuring ocean liners using the Morisania building as reference. The satire pokes fun at impractical scientific methods and urban measurement schemes. **"Another Case of the Innocent Bystander"** (bottom cartoon): A sketch showing an adult and children in winter, apparently depicting an innocent person caught in some awkward situation—the specific scenario remains unclear from context.
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LIFE My Husband Says HAT he really can’t advise me as to taking the leadership of a relay of girls who belong to the “Girls’ Someday Club.” They carry a little kit and a basket of canned things, and go off on long “7~hikes and picnic in lovely woodsy places. The lady who has charge of all the ‘relays says it is awfully hard to get grown-up leaders and she thinks that with my personality the girls would just love me; and you don’t have to know much to be a leader. The girls will tell you how. She said that a rich girl belonged to the club, and her mother had to coax her to eat the very daintiest things at home; and after she had taken a ten-mile hike she ate sausages just as the other girls did. And her leader felt that it was awfully worth-while work for anyone. The girls give lovely concerts to raise money to pay for having the concert tickets printed. And they are banded together to do good, and they ask everybody to please help them in their work. My husband says that years ago when he was a boy women used to marry men before they began to ask them for money. L.B.S. Improving on the Catalogues ROFESSOR BLOTTER, of Columbia University, and I have been working now for quite some time to try to find out some other way of measuring ocean liners than standing them on end beside the Woolworth (or similar) Towers. “In all the illustrated catalogues about ocean liners I have ever seen,” said Professor Blotter, “there js always the photograph of the Morisania balancing on the point of her nose and topping the highest building by many feet, to prove how far you can walk to Eu- rope.” Now, the Professor’s point, and mine, is that this is a needless expense. It’s hard on the nose of the ship, and requires a reénforced bow. Traffic difficulties are inevitable with a liner standing on Broadway; and besides, Professor Blotter says (and I agree) you would have to build another Tower higher than the Woolworth Tower in order to haul your ship on end, and then what would be the use of measuring the Woolworth Tower, if there were a higher one right near it? The final result would be (concludes Professor Blotter) that you would keep on building higher and higher Towers until some day somebody got hurt. “Corey,” said Professor Blotter, “I have an idea here that I trust will do away with all these difficulties, Briefly, it’s to sail all ocean liners in the future on end, Another Case of the Innocent Bystander comicbooks.com