Life, 1923-06-21 · page 9 of 36
Life — June 21, 1923 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Top Illustration - "The End of an Argument":** Shows a man (appearing to be a teacher or authority figure) confronting a younger man who has knocked over furniture and made a mess. The caption reads: "Now, you are a man who has made a mark in the world, but think how the mark has depreciated." This satirizes someone whose youthful accomplishments or "mark" have been undermined by poor recent behavior or conduct—the visual destruction emphasizing the deterioration. **"An Educational Clinic":** Text describes President Eliot's proposed directions for educating children, including practical training in trades and sensory development. **Bottom Illustrations:** Include domestic/social commentary cartoons about house conditions and relationships, with satirical verse about rental disputes and romantic indifference. The page combines educational reform discussion with satirical commentary on social manners and relationships.
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LIFE An Educational Clinic RESIDENT ELIOT has given the following directions for edu- cating children. Our service depart- ment has worked out the specific de- tails. 1, Enlist the interest of every pu- pil in every school in his daily task. This may be done by finding out what the pupil is interested in and giving him only that to do. At the end of the term an exhibition may be held showing the work which has been accomplished, including the fol- lowing exhibits: (1) dismembered clocks; (2) snow men; (3) cores of apples eaten; (4) frogs caught; (5) little girls teased by little boys; (6) little boys’ caps snatched off by little girls; (7) moderately-trained dogs; (8) half-smoked cigars. 2. Cultivate every hour in every child the power to sce and describe accurately. Place each child in a strait-jacket and keep him there during school-hours. Blinders may al- so be used in cases of roving-eye. 3. Make the training of the senses a prime object every day. This will be a very popular course. Laboratory work will include training in sensory stimuli, such as heavy-eating, elemen- tary drinking of light wines, grading gently into Scotch and gin, evening work at the “Follies” and general revelry, “NO, TOM, I FIND I DON’T LOVE YOU ENOUGH TO MARRY you.” THE END OF AN ARGUMENT “xoW, YOU ARE A MAN WHO HAS MADE A MARK IN THE WORLD.” “BUT THINK HOW THE MARK HAS DEPRECIATED.” 4. Teach every child to draw, model, sing, or play a@ musical instrument, and read music. Those teachers whose duty it is to teach the playing of musical instruments to the entire class will be divided into fifteen-minute shifts, with a two weeks’ vacation in a Sanitarium between classes. A cordon of mounted police will be drawn up around the building to keep the children at their practicing. 5. Keep the atmosphere of y school and family charged with the master sentiments of love, hope and duty. Keep out both fear and selfishness. This can be done by removing fear and selfishness from the minds of the teachers, and a good way to start would be to pay them some of the money now spent in perfecting poison gas and bomb-dropping devices. RC. Be House Cursing OLDER, ye Walls! wherefrom, a Malcontent, I move because ye Landlord raised ye Rent! Crack, Plaster! till ye Lath Work stand revealed! Burst, Water Pipes! by bitter Frost congealed! Admit ye Draft, each Window! Smoke, ye Flue! Let slimy Floods ye Cellarage imbrue! And, after long and dismal Years are flown While every Cell is tenantless and lone, On some wild Night when all is black as Sin, Accursed Hovel, may ye Roof fall in! A. G. RU: There goes a man who took a short cut to wealth, Dus: Yes, that’s my butcher! 'HE good men do sometimes lives after them—but no- body is interested in it. comicbooks.com