Life, 1924-07-24 · page 8 of 36
Life — July 24, 1924 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **"The Suburbs"** article mocks suburban life, suggesting it's a compromise between city and country living. The text criticizes suburbanites who can't fully commit to either lifestyle—they want urban convenience with rural charm but end up with neither. **"The Pedestrian's Favorite Lines"** collects famous literary quotes about walking and movement, appearing to be a light cultural commentary. The top cartoon shows a man who walked 89 miles in a day, with his wife asking "what was your hurry?"—a simple domestic joke about overexertion. The bottom cartoon labeled "The Hyena" and "The Goose" appears to depict animals refusing to laugh or participate, suggesting reluctance or avoidance of something (the context isn't entirely clear from this page alone).
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He (proudly) : She: WENT AROUND IN EIGHTY~ AND WHAT WAS YOUR HURRY? FB TO-DAY, The Suburbs HE difference between a suburb and a country village is the Sears-Roe- buck catalogue. The suburbs bring forth an unusual degree of kindliness from the ordi- narily stony-hearted railroad officials. They give special rates to suburbanites to aid them in escaping from the sub- urbs daily. When a suburbanite says, “It’s won- derful for the children; I wouldn't think of bringing them up anywhere else,” it’s ten to one that next year he'll be living in a city apartment. The business of a suburbanite, which is so slack early in the summer that he can take the 3:14 home and lounge in the hammock the rest of the afternoon, picks up in the most remarkable way as soon as the weeds begin to come up in his wife's garden, and keeps him at the office until after six. A suburbanite suffers from the hot weather as much as any other human being until he discovers that it is half a degree cooler on his front porch than it is in the city, and then it can’t get hot cnough for him. A suburbanite won't help his wife take the potato bugs off her potatoes because crawly things make him sick at his tummy, yet he will be able to brace himself sufficiently to dig up and thrust into his pockets about a quart of worms when he wants to go fishing. Bertram Bloch. RUE: How was the bathing at irport ? Not very daring. The Pedestrian’s Favorite Lines "| FRIEND! I know not which way I must look.” (William Wordsworth.) se “No rauscle I move As I lie at full length.” (Edgar Allan Poe.) eee “The plague full swift goes by.” (Thomas Nashe.) eee “God knows, I'm toss'd about.” (Robert Herrick.) eee “Tam the mark.” (Algernon Charles Swinburne.) eee “He rose, he he clutch’d. (William Brightly Rands.) 08 “O my God, I thank Thee that I live!” (Alexander Smith.) stoop'’d, he Observation HEN a woman buys a bargain she is so sure that she has done well that she shows it immediately to all her friends. But when she acquires a husband, he has to be taken off on a honeymoon to be looked over and polished up before being displayed to the public at large. OW is the time when every golfer sows his wild oaths. The Hyena: wy von’T You LAUGH? The Goose: EXCUSE ME, I PREFER HISSING. comicbooks.com