Life, 1924-08-14 · page 14 of 36
Life — August 14, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical commentary and fiction rather than political cartoons. The top illustration shows a domestic scene where a young novelist dictates overly romantic prose to his stenographer while his wife looks on—satirizing melodramatic literary conventions of the era. "Mrs. Peps Diary" (August 7th-8th) mocks sentimental Victorian literature through a woman's account of reading such a novel. The satire targets how such works portray abandoned husbands and suffering children unrealistically. The bottom illustration, captioned "Just take a look at Hank's new scarecrow," appears to joke about rural life, though the specific reference is unclear from the visible text. The "Life Lines" column contains brief, unrelated social observations typical of magazine humor sections.
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Life Lines HE city that gets the 1928 Demo cratic Convention will have to shoy the national committee a reliable gave factory. JL An Arizona man recently wrote 3,00 words on a postcard, but any experi enced editor could have cut that dow to “Wish you were here.” aL Among pedestrians, he laughs best wi laughs fast. JL In these days of wholesale raids o1 cabarets and roof gardens, Longfellow’ hero could do a rushing business as th village locksmith. JL A petrified ear has been found ai Tamanend, Pa. The discoverers do not tax fl know whether it belonged to an Indian Young Novelist (dictating) : DARLING, ACCEPT FROM MY LIPS THE CONFESSION THAT — chief or a telephone operator. CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT YOU. BE MY WIFE, SHARE MY LOT, AND MAKE ME HAPPY. aL Stenographer (ingenuously) : 18 THAT TO GO DOWN WITH THE REST? The letter carriers failed to receive an * ; increase in pay—but at least they had vs. pe lary their hopes raised. August Lay late, reading a silly novel The day begun pleasantly Valid Excuse ; Ith wherein a woman with a ’ al of a great “ RE you following your Five good home, husband and 5 elda imple Rules for Keeping Cool?” children longed to express herself in Sears’s garden, but, mindful of the bee No, I can’t make the effort. It's too the world of affairs, a theme ut- (Continued on page 31) hot.” terly beyond my comprehension, yet being overworked by modern writers. Nor do they solve the problem to my satisfaction, neither, forasmuch as in almost every case the abandoned husband and chil- dren begin to contract holes in their stockings and colds in their heads the minute Mother starts up the ladder of success, so that she must come home, rebellious and tearful, to defend them from such calamities. I suppose that men must work and women weep, but I had liefer shed a few tears in the privacy of my own apartments than cope with the public in any manner soever... rge Boothby to luncheon with me, after seeing some friends off for Europe, and they had plied her with cocktayles, so that when she stopped to order a wedding present for Nan Chis- t holm, she laid out more than three “I SEE HANK'S WAYWARD SON COME BACK FROM THE CITY.” times as much as she had planned “HOW DO YE KNow?” to spend for it. “JEST TAKE A LOOK AT HANK’S NEW SCARECROW.” comicbooks.com