Life, 1923-05-17 · page 11 of 46
Life — May 17, 1923 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** A domestic humor sketch showing two women with a baby crib. Mrs. Smith complains the crib top won't close; Bridget (the servant) asks if it shut when opened. This is a simple joke about poor mechanical design or user error—typical early 20th-century domestic comedy. **"Fables for Farmers":** A serious article from Okeechobee, Florida, discussing Seminole Indians' economic distress. They formerly prospered exporting alligator skins and oil to Southern cities, but Federal regulations forced them to stockpile provisions they can't sell, creating unemployment. **"On the Links":** A golf humor cartoon showing a daughter rejecting eggs because they're expensive, while her mother questions the logic. It's a joke about cost-of-living complaints.
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Mrs. Smith: Funny, Bridget, this top won't shut any more, Bridget: Shure, ma’am, was it shut when you opened it? Fables for Farmers On the Links KECHOBEE, Florida, May 12—The remnant of He started off well for a beginner and remarked: the Seminole Indians living in the Everglades are re- “Golf is pie.” ported as being in some distress, because of an overpro- But just then he got a bad slice. duction of eels and muskrats, their favorite food. For some years they were very prosperous, through the ex- port to Southern cities of large quantities of alligator skins and rattlesnake oil, for which they received so much wampum that the tribe has now a circulating medium of 648 strings per capita. Through the influence of Chief Ford Knee they were persuaded to adopt a protec- tive tariff against all foreign products, in order to develop home industries, and clam shells being abundant they are now making their own wampum. Unfortunately they were taught by the Federal Desic- cation Board how to dry eels and smoke muskrat meat, with the result that they have accumulated a huge sur- plus stock of provisions, and the braves formerly en- gaged in fishing and trapping are left without employ- ment, Some of the idle Indians are protesting against the tariff, and are asking what good it does to keep for- eign goods out of the home market, when home indus- try produces more than it can use. The majority, how- ever, are old-fashioned patriotic Americans, who insist that trading with foreigners is all wrong, and that they Dacutcheers: 1 doa’ wantiesge—% hate eens will have nothing to do with people who live so far away Mothers. How can you say yon hate een when as Jacksonville or Tampa. W. G. they are so expensive? comicbooks.com