Life, 1925-03-19 · page 14 of 36
Life — March 19, 1925 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: 1. **"Eat Viggle Gum" Advertisement Parody**: A chaotic illustration mocking consumer culture, showing an exaggerated, disheveled figure amid product chaos—satirizing aggressive advertising and gum marketing to children. 2. **"Father at the Bath"**: A humorous poem about a father displaced from the bathroom by his baby's ownership of it. The joke relies on domestic role-reversal and the indignity of a grown man relegated to kitchen-sink washing. 3. **"Mrs. Pops' Diary"**: A satirical diary entry (dated March 12th-13th) depicting upper-class social anxieties—dinner parties, social climbing, and the arrival of visiting celebrities like Hope Carroll. It mocks pretentious society behavior and the performative nature of wealthy domestic life. 4. **"Household Helps - The Picture-Hanging Crane"**: A comedic illustration showing an absurdly oversized industrial crane used for hanging household pictures—satirizing over-mechanization of simple domestic tasks.
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“IT WAS ALL HER FAULT, OFFICER. I WAS EXPECTING HER TO SHOOT OVER To THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD AS ANY NORMAL WOMAN WOULD—MADE ALLOWANCE FOK IT—AND THEN SHE DIDN'T.” Lay late, albeit [ went to March hed carly last night in or- 12th der to be up specially be- times, even having Miss Wright come to massage me into slumber, but Lord! the telephone on my table wakened me at midnight, George Banning and some others who were at cards wanting me to settle an argument about an unusual revoke which G, described, and I so out of temper that I told him the offender should be straightway handed over to the police without even being allowed to score his honors, I did forgive him this morning, however, because of his subtlety in sending me a sheaf of gor- gous which the poor wretch must have combed the town.... Marge Boothby to luncheon, with the news that Hope Carroll will soon be coming to visit her. Whereupon we fell to discussing the changes which have come upon New York hospitality within our own experience. In our grandmother's day, quoth Marge, hav- ing a guest meant laying out the finest damask and silver and sending out cards for the second evening, whereas we go no farther than ordering pussy willows and a case of gin. poppies, for Unable to withstand the March purchase of a bright felt 13th hat any longer, off carly to search for one, finding it speedily, and being in the neighborhood of H. Cam- man’s office, so to see her and how her literary brokerage doth. She did tell me that a woman had just left who had berated her most foully for no just But I paid no heed to aught save the spots on her dress, quoth Helen, adding, One should always go to a dry cleaner before one makes a scene. (Continued on page 29) cause soever, Father at the Bath INCE Baby's owned the bathroom, I Possess no means my form to dry. So when I from the tub rebound, I imitate the humble hound. The soap is hid in a retreat, Since Baby thought it good to eat. My banishment is only right... My bath is not a cunning sight. Attempts at shaving all were queered; That's why I wear this flowing beard To clean my pearly teeth I slink Out to the kitchen and its sink. 1 wait for my paternal bath And only rise up in my wrath When rubber duck or fish of tin Lurks in the tub I'm seated in. Fairfax Downey. Uplifting the Drama H, there was a little girl and she had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead, and when she was good she was very, very good, and when she was bad David Belasco and William A. Brady produced plays about her. IRST ANARCHIST: you doing these days? Seconp Anarcutst: Oh, much—just bombin’ around. What are nothing, HOUSEHOLD HELPS THE PICTURE-HANGING CRANE comicbooks.com