Life, 1925-01-15 · page 9 of 36
Life — January 15, 1925 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate pieces of satirical content: 1. **"Geese" poem** by Cornelia Otis Skinner: A humorous verse about geese returning home, likely satirizing human behavior through animal analogy (a common literary device). 2. **"Jonesville Goes South"** by McCready Huston: A satirical anecdote mocking a businessman's vacation pitch. A traveling salesman claims winter golf is available in Jonesville (likely Florida), contradicting the hotel manager's claim that January-February were slow months before the "invention" of winter vacation. The satire targets commercial tourism marketing and the business mentality of creating artificial demand. 3. **"The Southern Cross"** illustration: A woodcut depicting a burning cross, likely referencing post-Civil War Southern religious or racial imagery, though context is unclear without surrounding text. 4. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"**: A serialized domestic humor column beginning January 8th.
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* LIFE - Geese THE stupid geese go strutting home, Their necks are long, their bodies fat; Complacently across the loam The stupid geese go strutting home; Perhaps they know they once saved Rome And ever since have lived on that; The stupid geese go strutting home, Their necks are long, their bodies fat. Cornelia Otis Skinner. Jonesville Goes South “THREE of my best customers have gone to Florida and another one says his wife is looking at folders,” said the gray-haired traveling salesman to the chief desk man in the Hotel New Trianon, Jonesville. “I think I'll jump to Sioux City to-night; Jonesville is getting to the place that a business man would as soon resign from the Country Club as not take a winter vacation. “January and February used to be my big months but that was thirty years ago when this hotel was called the Smith House and the vacation, convention and conference hadn't been invented. “The house could save money by taking me off this territory and sending me to Miami for a month. That's where my customers are. Why, over in Peoria a man told me that he gets almost as much inspiration out of his trip South as he does out of the American Magazine.” McCready Huston. CKILY, the North won the Civil War and saved winter golf for the United States. Northerner: Wow WAS THE COTTON CROP THIS YEAR? Southerner: { UNDERSTAND, SAM, IT PRODUCED ONE THOU- SAND, SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO SUCCESSFUL SONGS. Wes Reps Diary In a fearful wax this morning because I could January yo: find the strand of silver beads which I do twine about my left wrist, feeling so unwonted and ungarbed without them that I was at my wits’ end what to do, when the young woman from the gymnasium telephoned that I did leave them swinging from one of the hooks yesterday, whereupon I was for doing something handsome for St. Anthony....Lucy Reynolds to luncheon with me, whereat we both did eat too many popovers, and L, asked me if it were wisdom to marry a man who would not enter a taxicab which did not fly the cut-rate flag, how- ever stormy and drear the night, and I told her No, not unless she wanted to sit back of the twelfth row for the remainder of her s and cook at least one dinner a weck....Sam home betimes, and upon finding Dr. Ames with me again, began to bait me upon the frequency of his visits, as though he doubted them to be professional. Lord! It is not possible that the poor wretch can be jealous. A great barrel of apples arrived this day, accompanied by Sam’s card on which was written— an apple a day; you know why! THE SOUTHERN CROSS (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com