Life, 1925-05-14 · page 12 of 40
Life — May 14, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains three distinct pieces: 1. **Top illustration**: A sketch showing two women in what appears to be a domestic scene, with captions suggesting commentary on female appearance and social performance ("when it suits her, Dolly can pretend to be very unsophisticated"). 2. **"Vane Love" poem** by Lois Whitcomb: A romantic verse about romantic inconstancy—a lover who has strayed. The satirical tone mocks the predictability of such emotional situations. 3. **"Mrs. Pop's Diary"**: A humorous diary entry dated May 7th-8th, detailing mundane domestic activities (shopping, visiting friends, household management). The satire targets the triviality of upper-class women's daily concerns and their preoccupation with social calls and domestic minutiae. 4. **"Breakers Ahead" cartoon**: A brief comic about an office boy informing a stenographer that his boss's son will graduate college, with a rural illustration below. The overall theme mocks domestic life, romance, and social pretension.
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Madge: WHEN 1T SUITS HER, DOLLY CAN PRETEND TO BE VERY UNSOPHISTICATED, SAY, DEARIE, THAT GIRL CAN BLUSH SO THAT IT SHOWS THROUGH HER Marjorie: MAKE-UP, Cs Peps Diary M. A long letter from Gracie Smith on the first 7k post. telling me of the gay doings in Europe at f present amongst many people known to me, and it read so like an E. Phillips Oppenheim novel that I did long to be off on the next steamer, but Lord! I do journey now so little that even a jaunt to Forest Hills sets me all a-flutter. --To a shop this morning to buy some utensils for my kitchen, bewildered, as usual, by the glittering array. Surely Cato could not have sun had he ever been in Macy's basement, but this time I did restrain myself for K ke and came home without having bought aught useless save two metal devices for removing the covers from milk bottles....In the afternoon to Hattie Belle Johnston's for bridge, finding there Carolyn Wells, whom I liked on the instant so thoroughly that I regret not to have met. her before. Whilst I was dummy I did pass her a plate of candy which was on a side-table. She regarded it questionably for a moment and then quoth, shaking her head, No, I've never felt that peanut brittle was worth the work you have to put on it....Sam did bring home to dinner Oliver ir, whom we have not seen in seven years, and when I asked him where he had been all that time, he answered, Out West in the great open spaces, where men are men and the plumbing’s terrible. id there was nothing new under the Awake betimes, but with such a feeling of physical depression that I was forced to dose myself against collapse. The world is indeed full of a number of things, and glad I am that one of them is aromatic spirits of ammonia. On my chaise-longue all the day, reading in this and that, in especial a book wrote by (Continued on page 33) Vane Love you had thought me steadfast, true, Resolute and staunch, you say. But there came a lover new And my heart has turned away. Were I not so fickle, dear, You'd not won me with such ease. If a lady’s fancy veer, It will veer with every breeze. Love like mine's a weather-cock That the slightest wind will change. If I vary, waver, mock, You should never think it strange. He I loved before you came Was a charming fellow, too. I do not deserve your blame If I turn away from you. Flattery’s wind will still prevail To deflect me—west or east, And which lover blows the gale Doesn't matter in the least. Lois Whitcomb. Breakers Ahead "FICE BOY: What's worryin’ the boss? Stenocrartiex: He just found out his son’ will be allowed to graduate from college this year. — OBST -Gaw>am . The Tall One: AND WHAT'S MORE, FATTY, YOU NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO CATCH AS BIG A FISH AS I CAN—YOU AIN'T BUILT RIGHT. comicbooks.com