Life, 1923-11-01 · page 12 of 41
Life — November 1, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**The Top Cartoon ("The Naked Truth"):** An elderly woman asks a child about their grandfather, who "has all his faculties still but his hair." This is a gentle joke about aging—the child's blunt, innocent response reveals the uncomfortable truth that grandpa is bald despite remaining mentally sharp. The humor lies in the contrast between the kind euphemism adults use and a child's literal honesty. **"Fables for Farmers":** This section discusses a convention addressing declining geese populations. Farmers blamed foxes for losses, but the report argues foxes are actually beneficial (controlling overproduction). The satire critiques farmers' misdiagnosis of their own problems and the need for cooperation between agriculture and finance. The remaining sections contain poetry and wordplay unrelated to satire.
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THE NAKED TRUTH Kind Lady: AND HOW IS YOUR DEAR GRANDPAPA THESE DAYS? Little Girl: THANK You, MRS. SUGGS. Fables for Farmers LARMED at the decreasing num- bers and emaciated condition of the geese on which they subsisted, the foxes decided to hold a convention at Atlantic City. When they assembled, the Chairman of the Committee on Better Relations between Producers and Finance reported : “It is manifest that the miserable condition of the unfortunate geese must be improved, else they will soon be too few to furnish us with our daily We find that foxes have been hunting by daylight, thus scaring the geese away from their best pastures. We deeply sympathize with the industrious and useful goose, the basis of our national prosperity, and urge the closest co-operation between finance and anseculture. To this end we recommend that no fox rations. some foolish shall kill geese between 7 a. M 8 p. M.; that the practice of killing more geese than can be eaten be ; and that all woodchucks be chased out of the goose pastures, so that there will be an abundance of good green grass on which the geese will wax fat.” The report was adopted after the delivery of numerous speeches, affirm- ing that the way to allay’the hostility of the geese toward the foxes was to show that without foxes there would be such an overproduction of geese that they would all starve to death. W. G. and abandone: Floricultured LOWERS are my mental diet (For I'm a queerish bird), T'll tell you—keep it quiet: Chrysanthemum’s the word. HE HAS ALL HIS FACULTIES STILL BUT HIS HAIR. Jazz ie stalks the boards to-night And struts And _ shimmies. Thin are her shoulders— Thin, and chalky white. Yellow her fingers from the smoke that curls About her short and straightly shining hair. Red is her mouth. Her eyes are slits—and gleaming. And hypnotized by saxophone and cym- bal, Drunken and rhythm, Swaying, she beckons me— Lord! how I hate her! Muriel N. Combs. half-hysterical from USIE: How do you spell “receive”? Bosse: G—e—t. comicbooks.com