Life, 1926-02-18 · page 10 of 36
Life — February 18, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: an editorial cartoon and a diary entry ("Mrs. Pop's Diary"). **The Cartoon** depicts two men at what appears to be a harbor or waterfront. The caption reads: "There, Monsieur, you see the famous statue of liberty... Ah, I see, in America you have about the custom of France to erect the statue to your illustrious dead." The joke satirizes American attitudes toward French monuments and customs. A Frenchman apparently mistakes the Statue of Liberty for a memorial to the dead, rather than understanding it as a symbol of freedom. This mocks both French perspectives and American self-regard regarding the statue's significance. **Mrs. Pop's Diary** is a gossip column reporting on society weddings, theater visits, and social observations—typical society-page content of the era.
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“THERE, MONSIEUR, “AM, TE SEB, IN AMERICA YOU January 25th market, I di he cut the for might miss Lord! the invoice which he sends me each week reads like the reparations effort of an inter- nat 1 debt com- mittee, and about such items as “Lima beans $2.60" there i something — Baby Jonian which dis. turbs me. Then to my new daybook, which | did buy because of the fas cinating assorted information with which its margins are filled, and com- ing upon a list of w drastically STATUE THE you AVE TO YOUR Reading in the publick prints article out il it to my greengrocer for fear he ONE SEE THE PAMOUS STATUE ADOVT THE CUSTOM OF ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD.” YY? the seven wonders of the world, I did prices have ask Sam to me OF Liperty.” FRANCE TO ERECT THE one of them, fallen in the fresh vegetable — whereto he responded, The battle of and Waterloo, the great zany, but it set me BEST SHOCK ABSORBER pondering how the term V aterloo has stood for years as a symbol of defeat, when as a matter of fact the Duke of Wellington was also amongst those present, In my day- book, too, are printed full instruc- tions on what to do in case of drown- ing, and I should ha poir rc been ed not to fi disap- them there. Did on my black faille my of Mistress out d fine new cloak brown silk and sealskin of which Deering did fashion for me two dis- carded garments, and off to call upon Lily Dunham, the bride, and when I beheld her splendid array of wedding presents, I did ask her if she were not glad she had taken my advice and been married on carpet instead of running off to a civil magistrate as was their first intention, whereto she rejoined, Yes, I dare say the necd of a larger deposit box will compensate for the wear and tear on our nerves and stomachs, She told mealsot after a week of marriage, she can find no fault in her spouse save that he leaves the cork out of the gin bottle., dinner this night with the Schuylers, and afterwards to the Heckscher Theatre to see a class from Boston do some English cc safety ntry dancing, which Sam, upon arriving home, tried to imi- tate, so now our Dorie lamp will have to go to Crichton’s again. Awake betimes, and behold- January in¢ my husband arrayed Uke 26th Charles Cherry, 1 did ask the wherefore of such valiant attire, whereupon he demanded if I wauld have him lunch with distinguished for- cigners in his overalls, which God knows I would not, so said no more Then to making out our next dinner list, and Sam was for having poor Jim Mitchell because of his great affection for Lida Morse, who is to be present, but I gravely doubt the wisdom of be- ing compassionate any longer in Jim's behalf, Lydia Loomis having told me that the last time she asked him to dine with them he stayed three days. To luncheon at an inn with Mathilde Emery, a fairly tiresome business, too, forasmuch as she xes into detail upon subjects which are not interesting even in rough sketch. Lord! I do hope I never encounter conversationally an- other person who has lived through a fire or who escaped from Paris in 1914. But Mathilde did regale me with an account of the Hartford citizens who were haled into court because a re- less bootlegger lost his notebook, and how, when one of the inquisitors was demanding of an elderly physician what kind of medical man would stoop to the purchase of rum in direct violation of federal statutes, ete., the old gentle- man had replied, I am no longer prac- ticing, sir; my professional career was at its height in the days when your father died of delirium tremens, Baird Leonard. comicbooks.com