Life, 1924-05-22 · page 6 of 36
Life — May 22, 1924 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows a mother scolding a child who has hit a younger boy. The child responds "Well, I think I'm growing too old to kick 'em"—suggesting the child is transitioning from childhood roughhousing to more mature behavior. It's gentle domestic humor about child development. **Main Article & Cartoon:** "Of Interest to Rural Property Holders" discusses tensions between country landowners and recreational visitors. The illustration of a car crossing the Canadian border, labeled "Driven to Drink," satirizes how rural property owners' frustrations with trespassing picnickers and tourists drive them to distraction. The article sympathizes with landowners defending their estates from unwanted intrusion—a recurring early-20th-century conflict between rural privacy and urban recreational expansion.
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Mother: Wuy pip YoU SLAP THAT LITTLE Boy? Betty: WELL, 1 THINK I'M GROWING TOO OLD TO KICK "EM, Of Interest to Rural Property Holders I you are the owner of a ly rural property when he objects to the in the creek bottom just below the old little country place which use of the choicest spots on his estate — mill into a primitive grate on which fires to lovingly as “the farm,” you will, as family picnic grounds, You will un- for making coffee and warming over am sure, be in complete sympathy with derstand at once his objection to the — beans may be built. It will not be diffi the attitude of the holder of rather love- heaping of the large white slabs of stone cult’ for you to comprehend why he refuses to allow the Jones family to comb his timber-lot for sticks of firewood, and why he in: that his blue grass meadow along Stony Brook is not a tourists’ camp. You will also agree with him heartily when he as- serts that the posting of “no trespass- ing” signs, somewhat blunt and harsh though their message may be, is an absolute necessity if one cares to keep one's property presentable But we, who are the most inveterate picnic fans, most assuredly do HE young fellow who evidently feels that he is destined to set the world on fire never seems to alarm the DRIVEN TO DRINK insurance companies. comicbooks.com