Life, 1923-08-02 · page 9 of 40
Life — August 2, 1923 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **Upper Section ("Spending the Summer"):** A first-person essay about collecting summer mementos—postcards, souvenirs, and correspondence from various locations. The author lists nostalgic items from places like the Adirondacks, Atlantic City, and notably institutions (Cathedral, Church, Hospital), emphasizing how these objects preserve vacation memories. **Lower Section (Cartoon):** A domestic scene showing two women and a server in an outdoor garden setting. Mr. Goof criticizes the architectural style of their cottage (painted "a horrible shade of red"), claiming he bought it with money his father left. His fiancée responds by noting he sold his birthright "for a mess of cottage"—a biblical reference to Esau selling his birthright for pottage, satirizing frivolous spending on real estate. The humor targets nouveau-riche pretension and poor financial decisions.
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LIFE Spending the Summer I ALWAYS spend the summer at home. Jt is so much more broadening than spending it at any single poky little summer resort. I spend my vacation at home to partake pictorially and souvenirishly of the vacations of all my friends, TI eason, so far, I have collected the following: 1 hi Bark Match-Holder labelled Camp Cantank- erino. 2 Vine Pillows: proof of pleasant time had in Adiron- dacks. Small Hand-Engraved Boulder: proof of pleasant climb made up Mount Monadanock, Hand-Painted Sea-Shells: proof of bath at Atlantic City. 500 Picture Post-Cards, offering condolence for my city- bound condition, and averring passionately : “This is God’s Country !” Aud 1,000 “Fine-Time-Wish-You-Were-Here” Cards, emphatic notifications that—among other places—I am wanted in Topeka, Seattle, Camp U-No-Me, the Fiji Islands, Lake Michigan, Atlantic Ocean, Cathedral at Amiens, M. E. Church in Kankakee, Beth-El Synagogue in Cincinnati, Sing Sing Prison, WHO HAS MANAGED GERMAN PROPERTY SO SUCCE and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. C: B. E, THAT IT IS RUMORED HE WILL SOON BE GIVEN A OVER THE RUHR, R. GOOF (pointing to an architectural atrocity, painted a horrible shade of red): There’s our new cottage, dear. I bought it with the money my father left. ilis Francee: I see. Sold your birthright for a mess f cottage? Mrs. Tompkins: ve JUST BEEN READING “THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS” OVER AGAIN AND I ENJOYED IT AS MUCH AS EVER. YOU'VE READ IT, OF COURSE? Mrs. Stuyvesant-Joncs: No, I MUST CONFESS I HAVEN'T EVEN READ THE FIRST YET. comicbooks.com