Life, 1926-06-10 · page 16 of 44
Life — June 10, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page offers etiquette advice for weekend guests, illustrated with a satirical sketch of an elegantly dressed couple relaxing. The main article warns against common social missteps: arriving late, sleeping in past breakfast, appearing unwashed or unkempt, playing piano badly, and lending one's belongings to fellow guests. The baseball cartoon below depicts an umpire making a controversial call—the humor lies in the umpire's physical comedy (contorted pose) while declaring "THREE STRIKES! YOU'RE OUT!" The "From a Club Chair" essay critiques modern consumer behavior, suggesting wealthy people thoughtlessly purchase items on credit without understanding their financial consequences or moral implications. The author appears to contrast this with earlier restraint.
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He: WHAT 1S IT YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT She: We HAS SUCHE A WEAK GIN Don’ts for Summer Week-Enders Di« be excited or disappointed = play tennis in the rain, Others sud cumstances: (a) if you can play it; if your hosts fail to meet you at denly become seized with adesire to go (b) if you cannot play it. the station. Remember there — sailing on a rough day, Don't be frightened or irritated if are other guests who must be met. And Don't take people seric when the rare old four-poster in which you anyhow, it's only a four-mile walk to — they say: “The water's fine Py are sleeping collapses some time dur their estate. get in.” This really me nee you ing the night. Think of the boys in 1 t fail to admire the splendid get back in the house near a fire and — the trenches during the War early American ladder-back chair in the — look at the ocean through a window In fact, think of the boys in the hall when you arrive. That would Don't intimate that you can play the — trenche every possible occasion and take ten points from your s piano in either of the following cir- the weck-end will be sure to be a glori- Don't get o of bed at ous success cight-thirty for a nine-o’clock Parke Cummings breakfast—if, you expect to appear at the table washed : : From a Club Chair Arise at six-forty-five. (While x HE : difference, as I see it awaiting your turn for the u is this: we buy our th ceremonies of the bath you can out of next year's income brush up on your reading—a : short book like, say, ‘Vanity tach, veal Fair” or the Old Testament.) \ > see our fathers bought them out of Don't in an led mo- > And, also, we have gone far- ment say you like to work in ( 9 ther than not letting the right gardens. — Week-end hosts Nee : hand know what the left hand aren't above adopting — con- | is ; we don’t even let the scription, ( right hip know what the left Don't offer to give the sweet | hip is carrying. young thing from Montclair oe 8 any tips on golf, She was a , I have been reading Profes finalist in the North and South sor Erskine’s book and it makes Tournament. ? me wonder whether, in all the Don't offer to lend your new years she spent in Troy, Helen flannels to any of your fellow-, Ex-Baseball Umpire (as golfer makes third miss): didn’t have her face lifted. guests. Some people like to THREE STRIKES! you're OUT! BATTER UP! James Ke comicbooks.com