Life, 1926-11-11 · page 16 of 45
Life — November 11, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several distinct humor pieces rather than a unified political cartoon. **Top cartoon** ("The Terrible Influence of the Huddle System"): Depicts a group of men in coats and hats huddled together. This satirizes the "huddle" formation in American football, which was relatively new at this time, suggesting it had negative social influence—possibly implying it encouraged roughness or unsportsmanlike behavior. **"Mrs. Pipp's Diary"** and accompanying sections are personal anecdotes and light social commentary rather than political satire. The remaining pieces ("A Stranger in New York," "How to Get a Turtle into the Soup," "Experience") are humorous short-form writing typical of Life's satirical editorial content, poking fun at contemporary urban life and human nature rather than addressing specific political events.
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Ce WLAd The Terrible Influence of the Huddle System October The public prints full of news about the Queen of 20th Rumania, in whose doings I might be able to take more interest had I not once read a novel which she wrote, authorship being as good a medium for showing up a queen as for showing up an enemy. To the shops this morning, being needful of many articles for our new quarters, and driving thither I did marvel in at the wide discrepancy be- tween the appearance of the driver and the photograph which the 1: requires him to post within his it being almost incredible that so un- kempt-looking a creature could ever have been groomed even to the mod- erate extent which the picture manifested. Greatly irritated by the salespeople’s inability to say whether the ar- ticles I purchased would reach me by a certain hour on the morrow, I did try to compose my- self by the reflect that our ancestors had to wait weeks for even news and mail, and yet, on the other hand, it did take me a half-hour last Tuesday to go ina cab from our house to Douglas Elliman’s of- fice, a distance of but three squares, which does not sound like so much of an improvement on stage- coach records....Emmy Anders in for tea, and she told me how a woman had jumped into the sea from the Homeric last week fully clothed and wearing white gloves, and we a that she must have been “Hedda Gabler.” I have it from Emmy, too, that poor Jim Mitchell has been released from the institution to which he was remanded for alcoholism, but I shall take no chances on getting too near him with a lighted mateh until I have adequate proof of his renuncia Sam home early, bringing with him Maity Banks, who was so upset for (Continued on page 31) “TIUM IT TO THEM, HARRY, SO THEY CAN PLAY IT.” A Stranger in New York TTHE ground is full of subway, The air is full of El, The streets are full of taxi And I don’t feel so w How to Get a Turtle into the Soup I AVE amusements of turtle cen- sored, Turtle will think life not worth living. Rush to fish market. Inform turtle soup is opportunity for service. ‘Turtle will be sold on idea. Offer self. Turn advertisement writers loose on turtle. Turtle will read ads. Be fooled. Think soup blessed state. Throw pictures of soup on silver sereen. Release — to turtle. Turtle will be intrigued. Will leap for pan. Read pessimistic phi- losophers to turtle. Tur- tle will be discouraged. Think soup inevitable. Accept fate. Engage good comedi- an. Comedian will ridicule turtle. Make mock turtle soup. Ww. W. Scott. Experience “T)O you believe in a hell on earth?” “Sure. I put on an amateur play once!” comicbooks.com