Life, 1926-12-02 · page 60 of 81
Life — December 2, 1926 — page 60: what you’re looking at
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This 1926 *Life* page collects brief humorous anecdotes and cartoons mocking contemporary social behavior and politics. **Key sections:** - **"Eileen"**: A poem about a college student confessing troubles to a sympathetic girl—the punchline being she's the actual cause of his problems. - **"Dear Papa"**: Celebrates a child's letter as profound literature, satirizing sentimentality about childhood innocence. - **"And I Can Lick Any——"**: Mocks inferiority complexes, referencing boxer John L. Sullivan as an example of masculine bravado. - **"The Chinese Situation"**: References real 1926 Chinese political turmoil (Sun Chuanfang vs. Chang Kai-shek forces near Shanghai/Nanking), satirizing the West's confusion about Asian affairs. - **"Duces Wild"**: Criticizes fascism, suggesting all politicians want to be Mussolini—timely given Mussolini's recent consolidation of power. Other items mock domestic absurdities: wives beating husbands "as a joke," absent schoolchildren, and a singing car owner. The humor targets pretension, political instability, and everyday foolishness.
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ontemporaries Eileen I ret my ‘troubles to Eileen, Though I'm not seeking pity (As nice a girl as I have seen And, too, she's just as pretty). But when I'm feeling down, and blue, To see her quite relieves me— She's one girl [can tell things to And know that she believes me. Yl, \ fief I tell her of my few affairs With co-eds—all about them— And when I think she really cares I try to do without them. My stories have no biased sheen, I've never tried to shade them, I tell my troubles to Eileen, For she’s the one who made them. —J.G.P., Ir, in Ohio State Sun Dial. SASS . Thought for Christmas, 1926 Jiov Kaisusancer est seem to M YOU SAY HE SAID YOU MAD THE FACE AND HABITS OF A MONKEY, be acti HarsnxaMENTE doesn't secra to AND THAT HE COULD MA BETTER MAN THAN YOU OUT OF CITEWED STRING? be getting any more recognition from our Sicce thwpeses Tile? prominent materialists than he would if Victim: "E THEN BECAME AnUsIVE, he were the real one. -Punch (London), by permission. —Ohio State Journal, The Classics “Dear Papa” Wutar’s this? A letter? Looks like it. What the — ant read it at all. “Dear Papa,” it begins. Ah, that's dif- ferent. A letter from little Bobbie. Cute little devil. “Dear Papa”—fancy that, now. A pitiable little scrawl? Not by any means. The world’s greatest literature. —Milwaukee Journal. “And I Can Lick Any——"" “vou KNow, G re “A way drinks,” writes a woman in The Chinese Situation RNONS a published art “because of his in- ‘suN ¢ N FANG 18 ADVANCING ON feriority complex.” For instance, there eK THE TCHEKIANGESE Wwito “om, VES. MINUTE HE SEES ME was old John L. Sullivan. WERE APPROACIUING SITANGHAL WETIt HE RUNS AND 1n1DES.” _Detroit Free Press. CHANG KAD SHEK ARE WITHDRAWING TO —L’Echo de Paris. NANKING, DURING THIS TIME TOHANG Duces Wild a 8 RCHING we sipctry, re Excusable Absence “Fascism would never work in_ this ° country.” says a contemporary. No, all the politicians would want to be Musso- lini—Passing Show (London), Jouxsie was absent from school one “THEN rou WE KE OERPLAIN IT afternoon. ‘The next morning the teacher received the following excuse: “Dear | excuse Johnnie's absenc fternoon. He got his feet wet ne at noon, and he didn’t have any others to put on.” —Indianapolis News, Add Indoor Sports Tusaxots paper—“William Warner was yesterday arrested, charged with beating his wife. Warner told the police he was trying to amuse his brother, who is spending a few weeks’ vacation with him.” —Boston Transcript. A New Dance? “You rub elbows with all sorts of peo- ple in a dance hall, don't you?” “What 11!" —New Orleans Times-Picayune. Ir’s getting so that “no news is good Owner: 1 SAY, DO STOP YOUR BLITHERING SINGING WHEN 1’M DOING THIS— news” for a loyal Italian. FOLKS'LL THINK IT’S A BARREL ORGAN, —Cincinnati Enquirer. —Tatler (London). comicbooks.com