Life, 1925-12-03 · page 64 of 84
Life — December 3, 1925 — page 64: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine (circa 1926), featuring cruise ship promotions and product ads. The main content is a **humorous poem titled "A Song of Lunacy"** mocking post-WWI excess and moral breakdown. The poem sarcastically celebrates abandoning social norms—standing on your head, breaking bottles, wrecking trains, killing "misers," slaughtering animals—attributing this chaos to "yesterday the World went mad." This appears to reference the chaotic, hedonistic behavior of the 1920s Jazz Age, satirizing the era's perceived social decay and loss of Victorian propriety. The page also includes brief humor columns like **"Rich Relations"** (mocking wealthy relatives' outdated gift amounts) and **"Adults Only"** (a joke about someone trying to bring their dog to a theater). The rest consists of **cruise ship advertisements** (Cunard, White Star Line), hotel promotions (Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda), beauty products (Oriental Cream), and book subscription offers—typical magazine advertising of the period.
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AROUND WORLD Cruises "Supreme on the Specially Chartered Cunarder - “FRANCONIA’ The World’s Pre-eminent Cruising Ship from New York Jan. 14 Returning May26, 1926 The supreme event of a lifetime achieving the grand circuit in 133 days, sailing eastward in the path of spring. No crowding, no confu- sion. Most compre- hensive itinerary. Our own offices with their special facilities all along the route. Cruise Supreme to the MEDITERRANEAN On the White Star “Ship of Splendor” “HOMERIC” from New York Jan. 23, 1926 14,000 MILES—67 DAYS Thos. Cook & Son 585 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK 253 Broadway Philadelphia Boston Chicago St. Louis San Francisco Los Angeles Toronto Montreal Vancouver more d 25 cts. tn stamps. C. W. t & Co., Baltimore, Md. LIFE OOLISH CONTEMEO ARIES A Song of Lunacy It's time for joy and singing, For standing on your head; Oh, set the church bells ringing! Oh, paint the pavements red! Come dance a tripping measure From Cambridge to Bagdad : The time is ripe For talking tripe, For yesterday the World went mad. It’s time for breaking bottles, And time to dig up drains, To ope a thousand throttles, And wreck a thousand trains: It’s time for killing misers And all whose looks are sad: The hour has come To make things hum, For yesterday the World went mad, Let's slay the college porter, And steal the college plate; A thousand gyps let's slaughter And stow them in a crate. I'll eat a pound of pepper To shew that I'm a lad: They tell me that I'm off my hat— But yesterday the World went mad —H. G. G. H., in Cambridge Granta. Wine jelly when Qavored with Abbott's Bitters s made cligntful and healthful. | Sample Bitters by mall Rich Relations Somehow it seems that rich uncles and aunts are more inclined to live in the past than any other class of people. There always is something so old- fashioned about the size of their gifts. They never seem to get away from the idea that you will be satisfied with amounts of money that would have brought joy to their hearts when they were your age. A rich old aunt who almost worships you may present you with $5 to buy something nice for your- self, and a rich uncle thinks he is helping you out wonderfully when he gives you a sum that hardly will pay for one casing. It is such a pity these good relatives can't understand that times have changed and that they should make their assist- ance more modern. —Claude Callan, in Milwaukee Journal. Ina Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT:EASE “Adults Only” Box-Orrice AtteNpant (at revue): I'm sorry, madam, but I'm afraid you can’t take your little dog in with you. Tue Lapy witn tHe Doc: Don't be so ridiculous. Why, Tootsy’s over five, and has had quite a big family! —Passing Show (London). A recent gleaning from a London school: ‘Dialect is the language we speak with our pals."—London News. Tt HAMILTON HOTEL J. A. Sherrard, General Manager G. J. Sherrard, Associate Manager Bermuda's largest, bese known hotel. Centrally located, in tropical park. 4C0 outsiderooms, Sis wich bathe. Fireproof. Famous: All sports. Opens Jan. it: BERMUDA Nigu Text Ofes, Srer Trave! Pree, ‘425, FVth Avennd, or any trevel barca So enchanting, so fascinatin; pells the admiration and homage of all. A skin and complexion of unsurpassed beauty you will be proud to possess. aoe eu Flesh - Rachel Gouraups ORIENTAL CREAM Ferd. T. Hopkias & Son, New York Gity Christmas Parcel of 12 books and a $1 95 year's subscription to BOOK NOTES e The parcel contains the following books printed in clear type, with colored paper wrappers, size $x 7) THE DARK FLEECE by Joseph Herges- hetmer AN AMATEUR by W. B. Marwell ‘THE SPANISH JADE by Maurice Hew- lett. THE DUEL by Joseph Conrad THE TOUCHSTONE by Edith Wharton NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE by Rex Beach UNEDUCATING MARY by Kathicen Norris CAPTAIN WARDLAW’'S KITBAGS by Harold McGrath MA PETTINGILL TALKS by Harry Leon Wilson THE BEAUTIFUL LADY by Booth ton ry Gene Stratton Porter THE GORGEOUS ISLE by Gertrude Atherton “Book Nores is the most enlightening organ of the publishing trade.”—Baird Leonard in Life. Fill in the form below and send with check of money order to Edwin Valentine Mitchell's Famous Bookshop, 27 Lewis St., Hartford, Connecticut. Name... Address. comicbooks.com