Life, 1924-08-07 · page 6 of 36
Life — August 7, 1924 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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The top panel depicts a humorous sequence about a woman stranded on a rock. The captions suggest she's been there "three long hours" while "devising devery of the follies," then "clung desperately to the rock, crying willy for help." When "no help came," she ultimately "climbed down from the rock and waded ashore"—satirizing exaggerated female helplessness and melodrama. The lower section includes brief satirical pieces: "A Word to the All-Wise" critiques nature conservation excess, "On Speaking Terms" presents a mother-daughter joke about Sunday school teachers, and a street scene cartoon shows boys discussing directions, using period working-class dialect. These pieces exemplify Life's early 20th-century humor targeting social pretension, gender stereotypes, and everyday absurdities through visual gags and sharp prose.
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: | L _ FOR THREE HOURS GENEVIEVE DEVERE OF THE FOLLIES LONG NO HELP CAME, SO— CLUNG DE ATELY TO THE ROCK, CRY- ING WILDLY FOR HELP, SHE CLIMBED DOWN FROM THE ROCK AND WADED ASHORE. A Word to the All-Wise F we ever get communing with Na- ture so that she is ready to take a suggestion or two, the first hint we shall give out will be to confine all acts of heaven, such as mosquitoes, lightning bolts, mad cattle, bad weather, tramps, ptomaine poisoning, blisters, poison ivy, ants, sunstroke, caterpillars, flat tires, hay fever, sprained ankles, snakes, broken spectacles, cinders in the eye and drownings, to the following and to their heirs and assigns forever: People name their summer camps “Welikeit,” and “Damfino”; fat women in knickers; tin can tourists; youths who wear caps cut from the crowns of felt hats; beach beetles; people who organize frankfurter and marshmallow roasts, who gather around the piano and sing, who hog the tennis court; divers who give volun- tary exhibitions; swimmers who kick you in the face as they go by; girls who walk into the setting sun in flimsy frocks; dry-fly fishermen; fresh drug-store clerks; student orchestras; porch cats; girls who kiss and tell; girls who don’t kiss and tell on you; affectionate children; people with fancy canoes; sweater knitters; — married women who park their wedding rings; who husbands who suddenly Friday afternoons; vendors of ice- cream cones; sponsors of straw rides. Upon all such, anathema, maranatha! Henry William Hanemann, LA FOLLETTE keeps the third- party vote in his West pocket. appear on The Official Mother Goose GEESAWS, Coolidge and Dawes, Senate shall have a new master. It shall have but a million a day Because it can’t spend any faster. A.G.C. Bedtime Story A Tale of Success O here was a man who took magazine that told him how to rv his business, and another magazine th. told him how John D. Rockefeller ley Schwab, et al, had become suc cessful, and a third magazine th: informed him how he could becom successful himself. He also took magazine that told him how to develo. personality, and another that told h how to organize his time, and sti another that told him how to acquire the Will to Wealth, And now you are smiling cynically thinking that the story is going to end with a note to the effect that the mar went into bankruptcy in a few weeks But nothing could be farther from the truth. He took all these magazines and more, and made money as a result of taking them. He was a newsdealer, you see. Bertram Bloch. On Speaking Terms OTHER: And who was your teacher in Sunday School to-day? Barpara; The one who knows God so well. YOU TELL ME WHERE TH’ OTHER SHIDE OF TH’ SHTREET ISH?” “THISH IS IT, OL’ BOY—THAT FELLER OVER THERE JUSH TOLD ME SO.” comicbooks.com