Life, 1923-06-21 · page 8 of 36
Life — June 21, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical commentary and poetry rather than traditional political cartoons. The main illustration titled "Seeds of Ambition" depicts a shirtless young man in an urban setting, likely representing youthful ambition and social aspiration. The text column "Things Life Would Rather Like to Know" presents humorous rhetorical questions about contemporary absurdities—including references to sugar boycotts, Luther (likely Martin Luther's 95 Theses), Mrs. Noah, and shipping regulations. These mock serious social and religious debates by juxtaposing them with trivial concerns. The pieces "Your Career" and the poem "Triolet" offer gentle satire of social expectations regarding careers, marriage, and settling down. The "Kitchenette Monologue" humorously contrasts idealized domestic life with harsh reality, suggesting satirical commentary on working-class urban living conditions.
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6 a AE cast > Z V/MEEELEE-Z-EEEEEE AMIE ETE TIT, SEEDS OF AMBITION Your Career (As It Looks to You After Listening to Your Successful Friends and Relatives on Conimencement Day.) OU will begin by buying a farm in Nebraska and selling bonds in Kansas City while nursing a law practice in Omaha. You will be an advertising writer in the East, an automobile salesman in the South, and an engineer in the Great North- west. You will begin at the bottom, somewhere near the top, marry young and stay single until you are lished. You will marry a poor girl who has lots of money. You will live in the city, small town and country and write novels and poems and paint pictures, You will own your own home, pay- ing for it on the installment plan in a lump sum, and keep house in an apartment. estab- Above all, you will work hard and take things easy for health is the most important thing and should be risked except in reaching the goal of such a career as you pic- ture on Commencement Day. McCready Huston. neyer Triolet HE girl of to-day Is much like her mother. Whatever you say, The girl of to-day Will have her own way One way or another. The girl of to-day Is much like her mother. Things LIFE Would Rather Like to Know HETHER the‘ song of the sugar boycotters is “Sweet and Low.” ee Why there is never any danger of a shortage of labor leaders. #a* If Luther hit his thumb when nail- ing his thesis to the church door. a How Mrs. Noah kept the curl in her ostrich feathers. * eK If Mrs. Jonah whale. swallowed the * a Whether the dry-ship ruling will make it easier for seasick travelers to tell whether they are coming or going. ea Why so few of our seagoing Con- gressmen book passage on Shipping Board vessels. xe Whether the small boy of to-mor- row will have to suffer the added humiliation of wearing pants made from mother’s knickers eee How long before telegrams will be sent non-SToP. A Kitchenette Monologue “ Y stars, but it’s good to get back to town and the little old kitchenette! Why, out where I was they had a kitchen as big as this whole flat, with cookpots and sauce- pans as big as bathtubs, pretty near. Town'll do for me. You can talk all you want about country feed, but I never saw a slice of smoked salmon or a piece of Swiss cheese the whole time I was there: Nothing but fresh vegetables and green stuff, world without end. String beans and limas and corn and cauliflower till you couldn’t see. Beets? Sure, but not 2 pickled beet in the lot. And no potato salad. Not even a frankfurter or a bit of bologna. Roast lamb and beef when I was just pining away for a plate of soused mackerel or a quarter’s worth of crabflakes with mayonnaise. “Say, dearie, you can believe me or not, but there wasn't a delicatessen store within twenty miles of where I was this summer! My, but I’m glad to get back to civilization!” comicbooks.com