Life, 1924-01-17 · page 22 of 36
Life — January 17, 1924 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This 1924 Life page contains social satire across multiple cartoons: **Top cartoon**: A mother with children asks "What's Boerie cryin' for?" The boy Harold responds he's "not cryin' for anything, he's mad it"—a joke about childhood tantrum logic. **Middle section**: "Another Glimpse" satirizes French astrologer Mme. de Thelme's 1924 predictions for America. Life responds mockingly with their own "predictions": government criticism, unpopular landlords/tax collectors, Henry Ford's continued success, variable weather everywhere except perpetually sunny Southern California. This mocks both fortune-telling pretension and American social grievances of the early 1920s (cost of living complaints, anti-government sentiment). **Bottom cartoon**: A saloon scene where a drunk customer boasts he can "whup any man" after consuming corn-flavored soda pop. The blacksmith sarcastically suggests giving him another quart to make fighting him "interesting." This satirizes Prohibition-era absurdities—citizens drinking cheap soda substitutes for alcohol. All cartoons target post-WWI American society's anxieties and peculiarities.
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Another Glimpse ME. DE THELME, a French astrologer, has made the ing predictions for these United States fe year 1924: foreign policy will have sities to face, and discussions are y to arise with a foreign Power In domestic affairs the people of the United States appear irritated and un- Is that so? The gifted Madame is unusually per- e can go her a few better; that there will be consider- grumbling over the cost of livi 1924, that the government will be sub- jected to er sm in certain quarters, that landlords and revenue officers will be unpopular, that Henry Ford will prosper, that Hiram J WHAT'S poERIE CRYIN’ FOR? several public speeches Harold: e's Nov CRYIN’ YOR ANYTHING, HE'S MAD IT. weather will be variable in all sections the country except Southern Cali- BUTCHER'S thumb, weighed in the IVING in Greenwich Village is f where it will continue to be an seldom found wanting cheap but expensive. known quantity. Saturday-night Customer: yee-ow! VM A WILD CAT. MA BEAR. I'M A LION AN’ 1 KIN WHUP ARY MAN IN THIS PLACE, YEE-ow! Pos the Blacksmith: ett, THAT FARMER TO GO OUT AND DRINK ANOTHER QUART OF THAT CORN-FLAVORED SODY POP SO AS TO MAKE IT INTERESTING AN’ I'LL TAKE HIM ON. comicbooks.com ‘