Life, 1923-05-17 · page 18 of 46
Life — May 17, 1923 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century social attitudes: **"Arrested Development"** mocks Justice Ford's proposal to cage girls aged 15-25 to prevent courtship. The satire argues this would backfire—sheltered women would remain immature ("flapper's mind") and unable to understand men, defeating the purpose of maintaining virtue. **"Why Night Life Is So Gay"** presents ironic monologues from businessmen boasting about exhaustion from mandatory social entertaining. The humor derives from their treating sleep deprivation as a status symbol—proof they're important enough that suppliers must wine and dine them. **Bottom section** includes brief comedic exchanges: a cynical editor suggesting holding a bride's photo for divorce proceedings, and "The Dub Who Bought a Golfometer," a four-panel comic about a man misusing a golf-measuring device. **"Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry"** (caption only visible) appears to satirize wealthy industrialists at leisure. The overall tone criticizes gender attitudes, corporate excess, and materialism.
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Arrested Development (Justice Ford, in hearing a suit for onnulment, declared if he had his way all girls would be shut up in cages from the age of fifteen to twenty-five.) H, there’s a Justice who would cage All maids, to keep them single. And, in a fine judicial rage, Forbid the sex to mingle From fifteen years to twenty-five. (And, doubtless, in that time, they’d thrive.) But, still, the proposition seems Of singular ill omen. Protected, so, from all their schemes, How could they learn to know men? And girls, at twenty-five, you’d find Would still possess a flapper’s mind. A. H., Jr. Why Night Life Is So Gay New York “FT MUST run along, I have a cus- tomer coming in from the West Saturday and I must get at least two full nights of sleep. I've been pret- ty lucky this year; have had to en- tertain only two. Got off with five nights—dinner, theatre and supper —and was sick only two days.” Kokomo “T must run along. I’m going to New York Friday to buy some INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY goods and unless I get two or three No. 68. Mr. Clicquot conducts the water sports at the opening of the full nights of sleep first I'll be all Clicquot Club House. in. The houses I buy from think they have to entertain me and their Overmatter Urgent people are so cordial I hate to re- Press-Room ForeMAN: Wot'll we DoorKEEPER OF Picture Snow: fuse to go along. I’ve been lucky do with this dame’s bridal picture? So you want to see a boy inside, eh? this year, though; been entertained Cynicat Eprtor: Hold it for the —§ Who is it? only five nights—dinner, theatre and divorce proceedings. Boy (confidentially): Me! supper. I've made two trips and was laid up only two days.” The Dub Who Bought a Golfometer “strokes you take.” comicbooks.com