Life, 1923-04-26 · page 13 of 36
Life — April 26, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon depicts a woman at a social gathering complaining that she cannot find an appropriate salad to match her new dress—a joke about superficial, fashion-obsessed socialites prioritizing clothing coordination over practical dinner concerns. Below are three opinion pieces: "Russia Gives and Gets" argues America should help Soviet Russia financially while maintaining independence; "The Daily Doesn't" humorously catalogs everyday disappointments (milkman delays, weak coffee, etc.); and "The Dinner" lists contemporary social topics (musicals, prohibition, Wall Street). A small illustration shows a man fishing with the caption "Jones took his first radish calmly." The page reflects 1920s American life: postwar foreign policy debates, Prohibition-era references, and middle-class social anxieties. The humor is gentle, domestic satire typical of Life's era.
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“My dear, I'm perfectly devastated. I can’t get any endive anywhere for my dinner to-night, and it’s the only salad that will match my new frock.” Russia Gives and Gets HY should Russia spend her money on Soviet propaganda in the United States, while the United States spends her money on food for Russia? A spirit of mutual generosity may dictate this exchange of national resources, but there seems something wasteful in the process. That Russia should help finance the Young Communist group in Belgium is natural enough. Antwerp and Brus- sels are painfully penurious to communists. That she should export her grain while we send her ours is also natural. She has to pay her army, an army we should all hold in esteem because it is the only one the pacifists do not object to. But the money she lavishes on Bolshe- vist literature and National Communist conventions in this country might go some way towards feeding the starving children in her own. We stand ready to help her feed them without asking for contributions in return. America can run her own revolutions, and keep her revolutionists in clover. They have friends and funds at home. Agnes Repplier. The Dinner Graperruit Supréme and the new musical comedy, Creme Parmentier and Hot Springs, filet of sole Bonne Femme and Mah Jongg. Poulard roti and the Ruhr, salade Chiffonade and Prohibition, bombe glacé and Long Island. Coffee and the traffic problem, Corona- Coronas and Wall Street, Benedictine and the latest funny story. Three married men yawning, two débu- tantes discussing Coué, one bachelor inquiring the where- abouts of the telephone. C.G.S. The Daily Doesn’t HE milk-man doesn’t call till after eight; The baker doesn’t send the breakfast rolls. The languid coffee doesn’t percolate. The morning paper doesn’t soothe our souls. The postman doesn’t bring the longed-for check; The weather doesn’t seem inclined to clear. That “bargain” doesn’t fit about the neck, And, strangely, “Central” doesn’t lend an ear. No wonder this new novel doesn’t sell ! That headache tablet doesn’t help my head. The Movie doesn’t thrill—the hero—well, It doesn’t matter really—So to bed. ea \ey oad er Garden Note—Jone¢ took his first radish calmly. comicbooks.com