Life, 1925-03-05 · page 6 of 36
Life — March 5, 1925 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"Here Endeth the First Lesson"** (top): A sketch mocking ice-skating instruction, showing adults teaching children an awkward skating technique. **"Punch and Go"**: Brief commentary on "Jet Wimp," someone who frequents Harry's White Marble Cafeteria and plays handball at Toledo Tom Terris's Health Parlors—satirizing a shallow lifestyle centered on leisure activities and grooming. **"Modern Methods"**: A British lecturer in America is mocked for his outdated notion that farmers should "pay fines for speeding," ignorant of American mechanization. The satire targets Old World attitudes toward modern American efficiency. **"Flopping Along"** (bottom): An illustration of children wading in mud, likely criticizing progressive education theories that prioritize play over structured learning—"The New Pedagogy" section critiques this approach. The page satirizes social pretension, outdated thinking, and progressive education fads.
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Punch and Go ET WIMP is my idea of the real “round-trip” advocate. Jet does everything with a ticket. Every Monday he gets a six-lunch card at Harry's White Marble Cafe- teria. He plays handball three nights a week at Toledo Tom Terris's Health Parlors. Tom punches his monthly ticket every time he leaves the gym. Jet owns a “thirty shave and two haircuts” card at Bill the Barber's; a HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON” “four presses” a month ducat for the Harlem Clothes Hospital. He sub- scribes for the Theatre Guild. And, of course, he commutes. But he'll be foiled eventually: he won't be able to get more than a one-way ticket from the undertaker. H. D. The New Pedagogy HE modern theory of education seems to be that it doesn’t matter what it is children are taught so long as they don't learn it. up He a a8 FLOPPING ALONG Modern Methods OG-GONE it, Judge,” the old farmer complained as he fished out his purse and prepared to pay his son's fine for speeding; “it's got so now'days that a young feller can't even sow his wild oats without a machine.” RIGGS: now Here's a British lecturer in America that I've never heard of before. Griccs: Where have you been living —in England? comicbooks.com