Life, 1925-03-05 · page 8 of 36
Life — March 5, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This satirical column contains brief social and political commentary. The cartoon depicts three figures in a hotel lobby; the caption reads "Well, what have you girls been doing all afternoon?" — likely satirizing idle wealthy hotel guests or gossiping socialites. The text references contemporary 1920s concerns: President Coolidge's mechanical horse (presumably a technological curiosity), diphtheria epidemics, Paris fashion trends, and General Outdoor Advertising Company's billboard expansion plans. Most notably, the column mocks Elihu Root (an aging statesman) and references Mme. Yajko Amado's predictions of "unprecedented horrors" in 1925, alongside commentary on a potential "Third Party" in American politics—all delivered with the magazine's characteristic witty, gossipy tone targeting educated urban readers.
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MONG those who have not been sitting up nights writing inau- gural addresses are Joun W. Davis and Rosert M. La Fotterte. JL The news about President Coottpce's mechanical horse answers one impor- tant question: we now know what he and the Prince or Watts talked about. aL The papers were able to tell us about the President's hobby-horse before the end of his administration chiefly because they did not depend for its discovery upon a Senatorial investigation. LL The Senate now contemplates investi- gating the causes of the World War. This will relieve many wounded vet- erans who have been wondering whether there was any one at Wash- ington who knew there had been a war. aL The latest word heard from the Nome diphtheria epidemic was that everybody had forgotten all about it. aL Women, it has been decided by Paris, dress solely for other women. Except, of course, when they pose in bathing suits at Palm Beach for the Sunday rotogravure sections. aL In the face of repeated warnings of the approaching end of the world, the sober, level-headed common sense of the American people asserts itself. Calmly the General Outdoor Advertis- IN THE LOBBY OF THE FAMILY HOTEL “WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU GIRLS BEEN DOING ALL AFTERNOON?” ing Company (a new organization) lays its plans for the display of $30,- 000,000 worth of outdoor signs during the coming season. LL Jounx Barrymore is appearing in “Hamlet” in London, and England may return the compliment by sending Sir Jounston Forses-Ropertson over to play “Abie’s Irish Rose” in New York. aL The real one hundred per cent. Ameri- can has at last been discovered. He bet cn an American runner against Nuri. JL “I like to think,” says Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, “that we approaching the era of the Golden Rule when each of us will be able to vie things through the other fellow’s eyes. And when, he might have added, we won't have to listen to talk through the other fellow’s hat. LL In Switzerland an engine has been in- vented called the “hochdruckkonden- sationsdampflokomotive.” In this coun- try they'd hang a name like that on a Pullman car. L Euinu Root, at eighty, has reached the conclusion that the American people are competent to govern themselves. The Lord’s Day Alliance and the Anti- Saloon League know better. a aL “Mr. Root has had the chance to study the soul of America” (we quote from an editorial) “because of his long career in politics.” Perhaps “in spite of” would have been the happier phrase. L To future students of American history Ettuu Root will probably be known as “the last of the statesmen.” LL Mme. Yatko Amano, a Japanese seer- ess, predicts unprecedented horrors for the world in 1925. This is no news to the adherents of the late Democratic Party. LL All this talk about a Third Party is rather previous. What the country needs now is a good Second Party. comicbooks.com