Life, 1926-09-16 · page 13 of 40
Life — September 16, 1926 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon depicts a tenement building scene with children and adults, captioned about wishing "to go in the country" but having only a tree on the block. This satirizes urban poverty—working-class families confined to crowded city streets with minimal access to nature or outdoor space. "The Children's Hour" story below features a mother telling fairy tales to children at bedtime. One anecdote mocks a girl who met another girl and "talked for ten minutes without once mentioning boys"—satirizing early 20th-century social expectations about female conversation. The courtroom cartoon shows a judge addressing a prisoner about capital punishment, likely commenting on contemporary debates about execution methods and state justice systems.
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| || " “WILAT YER WISILIN’ TO GO IN THE COUNTRY FER? AIN’T WE GOT A TREE RIGHT HERE ON THE BLOCK?” s STORY, Mommy,” clamored Ate Thoroughly Modern Kid- dies, bunching round their . Mother in their little insu- Se - began Mommy, snatch- ing her Lalique flask from the lips of little Hector, “once upon a time there was a man who sold so many bonds that he beeame—" . A fairy story, said Mommy ab- sently, and crossed her legs for a peep at her diamond knee-watch, “once: upon a time there was a girl who married a million dollars and six cars and—” “Baw! “No success sto- i Mommy!” “Raspber- Vor a long time Mommy wrinkled her enameled brow. So long, in fact, that her Co- tona-Corona nearly died on The Children’s Hour in the whole wide world. you like him? “O. K.,” approved young Orvis. “And he met a girl who had once met another girl and talked for ten minutes without once How do mentioning hair, Does she get by?” inquired Mommy anxiously. “You bet!" shrilled the chorus. “Let's !" And tucking their little white nighties about them, they set- tled down against Mommy's knees for an hour in the wonderful Land of Make-Believe. Stanley Jones. Editorial Policy DITOR OF STONE AGE GAZETTE: Bi- ceps, write our contributors, please, and remind them that they must chip on one side of the stone only and cach con- tribution must be accom- panied by a wheelbarrow to insure its safe return. That’s So “UJHAT do you get if you wee boil your drink- ing water?” asked the teach- er, her. Then: s “Once upon a time,” she began brightly, “there was a man who really didn’t believe that he could poke up a log fire better than anybody else Judge: REMEMBER, IF WE CAN’T CONVICT YoU IN THIS STATE, WE'LL TURN YOU OVER TO THE MARY- LAND AUTHORITIES, WOULD YOU RATHER BE HANGED IN MARYLAND OR IN CALIFORNIA? Prisoner: 1 11’8 ALL THE SAME, JUDGE, I THINK Vp RATHER BE HANGED IN EPPFIGY. 'yphoid fever,” the pupils. “And when you boil your water?” began the teacher. “Soup,” chorused t he bright youngsters. replied comicbooks.com