Life, 1925-04-09 · page 26 of 41
Life — April 9, 1925 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon**: The strip showing five figures carrying "DIVORCE" signs illustrates the article's headline "Four Out of Every Five Get It Before Forty"—a commentary on divorce rates among Americans. **Main Article "Business Going On as Usual"**: This satirizes post-Lenten hypocrisy. After Lent (the Christian period of abstinence and penance), people immediately return to drinking, dancing, card-playing, and "polite-sinning." The author's point: society claims religious observance during Lent but abandons it immediately after, suggesting little genuine moral improvement occurs. **"One on the Prince"**: A joke where Hamlet's famous line about Denmark being rotten receives a modern twist—Horatio suggests the problem is Hamlet's radio reception ("receiving set"), mocking contemporary obsession with new technology. **Bottom Image**: An "Elder Sister" reads a ghost story to children. Bobby dismissively notes the supernatural sound effect was merely "static"—suggesting even children now understand modern radio technology enough to recognize technical artifacts rather than be frightened by traditional spooky stories.
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FOUR OUT OF EVERY FIVE GET IT BEFORE FORTY * Business Going On as Usual OW that Lent is over— The theatres will be patronized again in increasing numbers by people who have been crowding them all during Lent; There will be more dancing by those who have been stepping all during the holy season There will be more drinking, feasting and self-indulgence by the same crowd that have been celebrating for the past forty days; There will be more card-playing, flirting and polite-sinning by everybody who has been enjoying him- or herself right up to this There will be less churchgoing, less self-denial, less penance and almsgiving by a world that was never particu- larly sold on that sort of thing, even during the traditional period of grace; Elder Sister (reading a ghost story): “AND JUST THEN THERE IT WAS A LONG WHEE—ERE—ER—FF—EF.” DOWN TO THE END OF HIS SPINE. There will be more people going to the devil in the same ways that were popular during Lent. In short, now that Lent is over, it doesn't really make much difference. Edmund J. Kiefer. One on the Prince OMETHING is rotten in the state of Denmark,” mused Hamlet. “Don't you fool yourself,” returned the faithful Horatio. “DIL bet the whole trouble is with your receiving set.” HERE'S a blessing to balance every curse,” a well- known orator recently observed with characteristic astuteness; but it would be small consolation to have found a pearl in the oyster that gave you typhoid fever. CAME A SOUND THAT MADE WILLIE SHIVER ’WAY Bobby: Gee, HE DIDN'T NEED TO GET SCARED AT THAT. ANY DUMBBELL COULD ‘a’ TOLD HIM IT WAS ONLY STATIC. comicbooks.com