Life, 1923-03-15 · page 9 of 36
Life — March 15, 1923 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine features a satirical drawing of an elegant evening social gathering. The cartoon caption reads: "Don't you think Angelica looks spirituelle in that evening gown?" with the response "Well, I must admit there's not much of the material about her." The humor targets upper-class vanity and pretension—specifically mocking a woman's fashionable but extremely thin appearance. "Spirituelle" (spiritual/ethereal) is juxtaposed with "material" (physical substance), suggesting the woman is so thin she appears almost ghostlike. The page also discusses European travel and steamship passengers, including references to Swiss nationals and Turkish baths. The satire reflects early 20th-century American attitudes toward European sophistication and leisure culture.
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Tm) “Don’t you think Angelica looks spirituelle in that evening gown?” “Well, I must admit there’s not much of the material about her.” Other passengers aboard the Car- bonic were a half-witted Swiss, three several Americans with irrhosis of the liver who had just returned from Baden-Baden, and a couple of steeplejacks. (Reprinted from the First Page of the “Daily Wrapper.”) With a full passenger list the gi- gantic Burgundia, of the French Line. popped into port yesterday bringing with her Amos Athabaska, of Athabaska Fréres. The famous furrier, who had been in Europe try- ing to buy German pelts from the French members of the Reparations Com nittee, insisted that he had noth- to say. He hiccoughed contin- , though not for publication. considerable questioning Mr. Athabaska said that Europe was in a state of turmoil. “’Sterrible condition unresh and ’sturbance in Eur-Yurp— over there,” said Mr. Athabaska, pointing unsteadily at France. “I’m now goin’ home t’ Kinosha, Wiscons’n—good ol’ Kinosha, Wiscons’n—an’ take harderned res’. My firsh vacation in three years—absolu'ly firsh !” Most of the passengers from the Burgundia went arm-in-arm to sev- eral Turkish Baths. A few stretcher cases were held at Quarantine as containing more than one half of one hundred per cent. by volume. (In the “Brooklyn Buzzard.”) The Marischania, of the United Fruit Line, docked last night with a large crew and Aloysius Apple- baum, the Yale halfback, son of J. W. Applebaum, the clothing mag- nate. Young Mr. Applebaum could not be interviewed as he had a se- vere case of lockjaw. He wrote out for the Bussard representative that this was the explanation of his pres- ence on a U. S. vessel. Pressed for a written statement, Mr. Applebaum scribbled the following on the back of an envelope: “The public has a mistaken idea of the amount of work half- backs do. This is my first vaca- tion since the Harvard game.” The Marischania carried no other passengers. W. D. Cousins ARCH and April cousins are, Very close together ; April showers come in March, And March knows April weather. May comes when the boisterous winds By Spring have been reproved— May and March are cousins, too, But cousins once removed. W.W.W. comicbooks.com