Life, 1923-09-06 · page 8 of 40
Life — September 6, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical pieces about early 20th-century social attitudes: **"Station Platform Thinking"** mocks a husband's casual snobbery toward a working-class neighbor woman while reading on a train platform. The joke: he mindlessly absorbs prejudices without examination. **"Old-School"** features a dialogue about sending a daughter to "Gold-plated Towers" (a finishing school). The satire targets restrictive Victorian conventions—the school forbids girls from smoking in classrooms, yet the "beautiful heiress" declares she'll marry for love and "keep right on marrying till I get it," mocking both outdated rules and women's limited independence. **"Filet of Camisole"** is a visual pun: a man and woman discuss food while she reads, playing on the double meaning of "filet" (meat cut vs. decorative garment). All three lampoon social pretension and changing gender roles of the era.
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- LIFE - Station Platform Thinking MY wife said this morning that she was going to do some worth-while reading this fall. She said she thought she would start in on Carlyle and work up by degrees to something really solid. So I'll have to try to remember to take her a couple of magazines when | go home to-night. She said it would be the height of folly for her to spend any money on clothes this season; the things she had last autumn are quite good enough. So she shouldn't need more than five or eight hundred dollars. She thinks that the little woman who has moved in across the way comes from just good, plain American people. I wonder what she has against her. She is off our neighbor on the other side. Think gossips. Must have told Mrs. Smith what my wife about her. McC. H. Old-School ms HY did you decide to send your daughter to Gold- plated Towers this year?” “Well, the faculty seems to have some idea of old- iy 5 fashioned decorum. For instance, the catalogue says, ‘Our (y Z girls are not permitted to smoke in the classrooms.’ ” F “ Neg aa — . Emergency Maid: sav, GET A MOVE ON, COOK. THERE'S A “NES,” said the beautiful heiress, reflectively, “I married BIRD HERE I USED TO SERVE AT CHILDS WHAT ALWAYS TIPS for love; and I'm going to keep right on marrying ME A QUARTER WHEN I DON’T KEEP HIM WAITIN’. till I get it.” She: THIS Is WHAT IS KNOWN AS FILET. He: FILET OF SOLE? “NO, FILET OF CAMISOLE.” comicbooks.com