Life, 1924-09-04 · page 12 of 36
Life — September 4, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on social customs and courtship. The main cartoon shows a couple in conversation, with the man promising marriage if the woman will "give up your extravagant ways" and discharge his taxi—a joke about male expectations that women abandon independence upon engagement. The "Nice People" section satirizes baseball fans' behavior, mocking how grown men become invested in games, ask unanswerable questions, and remove their hats excitedly—behavior considered undignified for "nice people." The poem "Song" romantically parodies commercialized tourism, referencing roadside signs for "Hot Dogs," "Cold Root Beer," and ice cream—suggesting modern romance has been replaced by mass-market consumerism and manufactured experiences. The final cartoon humorously depicts men removing cinders from each other's eyes on a New York street, illustrating gallant social behavior.
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“YES, JACK, I'LL MARRY YOU, IF YOU'LL PROMISE TO GIVE UP YGUK EXTRAVAGANT ways. “T PROMISE, DARLING, IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME A MINUTE I'LL RUN OUT NOW AND DISCHARGE MY TAXI.” Nice People Whom It's Unlucky to Take to a Baseball Game HE girl who watches the score- board so faithfully that she has to have each play explained after the ap- plause dies out. The man who once saw a game of cricket and tries interminably to tell you just how it differs from baseball The girl who tries to show an intelli- gent interest in the game by asking questions that you can't answer The man who expects a dime’s worth of ice cream for a dime, and who grumbles about it. The girl who puts her hands over her cars and er the ball is knocked within two hundred feet of her. The young realist, aged seven, who expects the Giants to be Giants, and the Athletics to be athletes, and who asks and asks and asks why they aren't The Old Timer who tries to recall and recite “Casey at the Bat,” to the amusement of all your neighbors. The younger brother of the best girl shudders whene in the world, who consumes incred- ible quantities of ice cream, pop, and peanuts during the first eight innings, and then has to be hurriedly removed in the middle of an exciting ninth- inning rally IW. L. Werner. | * Horace could have seen the modern dances his ode would probably have read: Virginibus puer risqué. Song H, come, my love, to yonder dale Beyond the sign, “Hot Dogs for Sale.” To where the hamlet spires appear Above the notice, “Tonics Here.” We'll climb the purple mountain top And view the glorious—“Hot Dogs Stop.” And through the murmuring pines we'll steer Th’ enchanted Beer.” path to “Cold Root And skirt that pretty azure lake Close by the sign, “Hot Dogs and Cake.” farmhouse old “Drinks Ice And rest before the With that inscription, Cold.” Or we can, just as well as not, Drive on to quaint old “Hot Dogs Hot.” Or to that crystal mountain stream Where rustic maidens sell ice cream. eee Oh, come, my love, and ride with me, And I will buy Hot Dogs for Thee; For we will leave the city drear And drink in ure and root beer. ederick Orin Bartlett. No Luck at All OWARD: There was nothing to drink but cider. Jay: Hard luck! Howarp: No, not even hard. THING of beauty is an expense forever. A MAN REMOVES A CINDER FROM HIS FRIEND'S EYE ON A NEW YORK STREET comicbooks.com