Life, 1926-07-15 · page 34 of 37
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: **"Indifferent"** — A comic dialogue where a mother remains remarkably calm after her daughter Maryetta admits to hitting her sister Marjorie in the stomach *in the dark*, without bothering to turn on the light. The joke mocks parental indifference to children's misbehavior. **"Your Child and Mine"** — A longer monologue satirizing how parents justify their own children's violence while condemning others'. A mother describes how her son Charles struck another boy with a pistol, but she frames it as self-defense and blames the other child (Rodney) for being older and larger. She lectures Rodney's mother about supervision, then is offended when the woman avoids her afterward. The satire exposes parental hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness. **"An Order"** — A brief joke where a fiction writer is asked to name someone's police dog—treating creative writing talent as trivial party-trick labor. The overarching theme critiques early 20th-century parenting and adult behavior, using humor to highlight moral blindness and social pretension.
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STOPS AND PREVENTS TRAVEL SICKNESS and all dizziness faintness and stomach caused disorders by the motion of sea, train, auto.car or air travel a Sanya Ry -F New York, Monrreat, London, Paris. | the Zoulogical Indifferent FTER Marjorie and M. had gone to bed a piercing w followed by sobs, came from. the direction of their room upstairs. Their mother hurried up to see what the trouble might be. Marsonte (crying): Maryetta hit me in the stomach! Motier: Maryetta, why did you hit Marjorie in the stomach? Maryetta: Well, Mother, you don’t need to think I’m going to get | up and turn on the light just to see where to hit her. N otice to Wiry Beards! Don’t get up against Barbasol. Barbasol will lead the old razor blade through you just slick- ery-slick! No brush. No tub-in. No after-smart. Use Barbasol—3 times —according to direc- tions. 35c and 65c tubes. 7. The 7 Barbasol Co, For Modern Shaving Your Child and Mine “VOU know how I am about such things, Grace; I positively will not quarrel. I think it’s just too ridiculous for words for people to have trouble with other people about their children; but when he came right over in our yard and struck Charles with his shovel, of course I ran out to stop him. He's three months older than Charles—Charles is the least little bit larger than he is, but he’s older and should have known better. Charles had his little pistol in his hand and he struck him in the head with it—I really could not blame him. If they had been grown men, Grace, any jury would have acquitted Charles—self-defense, you know. And he hit Charles right on the spine. I saw him. And if you remember anything at all about your biology, you know what a deli- cate, sensitive thing the spine is. Of course, I went right over to her be- fore her precious Rodney could get there and misrepresent things. I was perfectly nice and pleasant about it. I simply said that Rodney was older than Charles and it did seem as if he ought to know better than to make such an utterly unwarranted attack upon another child, And I finished by ng that I wished she would keep Rodney at home until he learned how to play with other chil- dren. And now she doesn’t speak to me when she meets me on the street! Can you imagine that? Isn't that disgusting!” A. W. Davis. An Order “A RE you a fiction writer?” “Yes, that’s my busine: “Oh, won't you think of a good name for my new police dog?” HE younger generation has its problems, too. It wonders what the older generation is coming through with. ‘BUSH TERMINAL CORPORATION, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Among the New Books Here and Beyond. By Edith Whar- ton (Appleton). Six short stories from a master pen. To be reviewed later. The Arcturus Adventure. By \Wil- liam Beebe (Putnam). The leader of Society’s first oceano- graphic expedition tells what happened to him when he burst into the Sargasso Sea Tom Fool. By F. Tennyson Jesse (Knopf). All about a man with a thirst for danger, introducing psychology into the literature of adventure on the high seas. The Silver Spoon. By John Gals- worthy (Scribner), The author's latest fictional comment on — contemporary manners, with Fleur Forsyte as one of the leading characters. To be reviewed later. The World's Best Proverbs and Maxims. By J. Gilchrist) Lawson (Doran). A handy volume of assorted wise-cracks. An American Tragedy. By Theo- dore Dreiser (Boni & L ight). The faithful and enthralling account of what befell an extremely commonplace young man. The Book Nobody Knows. By Bruce Barton (Bobbs-Merrill). Mr. Bar- ton attempts to do for the Bible what he did last season for Christ. Nomad’s Land. By Mary Roberts Rinchart (Doran). Travel stuff, with photographs, to prove the versatility of one of our more popular novelists. The Black Hunter. By James Oliver Curwood (Cosmopolitan). Fair wome: and brave men in a romance of ol Quebec. Beau Sabreur. By Percival Christo- pher Wren (Sto! e French Hus- frit i n sheiks, Ameri- can girls, and everything. The Mauve Decade. Beer (Knopf). A contribution to the current revival of the Nineties which everybody is reading. The Story of Philosophy. By Will Durant (Simon & Schuster). A fiterary event worthy of a town crier. 8B. L, By Thomas Give Your Dog a Square Deal ! READ THE AMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE IT TELLS YOU HOW TO KEEP HIM WELL AND HAPPY No lover of a dog should be without the Gazette The Gazette is the most beautiful, complete, interesting and authentic dog magazine published. It con- tains each month fact, fiction and beautiful illustrations. It is pub- lished by the American Kennel Club, the governing body of dogs. It sells for 0c per copy $4.00 per year SHOULD READ THE GAZETTE ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB, 1200R, 221 Fourth Ave., New York City comicbooks.com