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This page contains multiple satirical pieces from Life magazine: **Main Cartoon (top):** Shows a father explaining something to his young son seated on furniture. The caption suggests a parental figure illustrating how children will eventually become worries and expenses—the underlying joke being that all parental joy (Pygmalion-like creation of the child) becomes parental burden. **Literary Humor Sections:** - "Lines from One Aspiring Parent-Bard to Another": Satirizes aspiring poets who think they can write verse when distracted by screaming babies and children's chaos. - "Shakespeareana": Mocks a society woman whose niece claims theatrical talent but confuses Shakespeare play titles ("If You Like It That Way"). - "For the American Girl": A joke about a young woman at the Ziegfeld Theatre asking where the "glorifying department" is—satirizing women seeking cosmetic enhancement. **Right Column Jokes:** Include "Sufficient Evidence" (a wife's practicality proven by owning a can opener) and a Metzel clothing advertisement. **Bottom Right:** Tourism advertisement for Daytona Beach, unrelated to satire. The page reflects early 20th-century American humor about domesticity, women's fashions, and theater culture.

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Lines from One Aspiring Parent-Bard to Another Wnuew that most promising of gents, Your son, adorns the so-called nursery ‘And rends, with raucous eloquence, The quondam quiet of your versery; When that steel-lunged, lusty mite Expands his chest—as babies should— Then, Boss, if poesy you can write You're good! Just wait until he first explores ting realm of noise eaves across the hard-wood floors His battered, uncomplaining toys; Ab, wait until—what’s even worse— He tumbles, yawping, down the stair— Then, Chief, if you can fashion verse You're there! Though graceful be your lyric gift ‘As any band-conductor’s baton, Into prosaic prose you'll drift When Tony muffs his college Latin. And when his bills for divers debts Begin arriving at your desk, Will these inspire your triolets? Dunt esk. —N. D. Plume, in New York World. Pe THAT THE You STATUE COME TO LIFE. —Humorist. (London). “Tieim house is mortgaged, isn't it?” “Up to the auto."—Boston Transcript. 31 Shakespeareana “My niece is quite theatrical,” re- marked old Mrs. Blunderby. “Next week she is taking part in a Shakespeare play at college.” “Which of his plays is i asked, “Edith mentioned the name of it, but I'm not sure whether it's ‘If You Like It That Way’ or ‘Nothing Much Do- —Boston Transcript. her caller Hideboard or ocean steamer Kit Is Incom- Sample more, Md For the American Girl Ar the ceremonies of the new Ziegfeld theatre, a busy young woman was ob- served in eager search for something. She was asked what she sought. “Where,” she wanted to know, “is the glorifying department?” —New York Morning Telegraph. Ina Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE MR. PYGMALION EXPLAINING TO See ones iia Sufficient Evidence y do you know Jenkins's wife is Ile carries a can opener on his key ring."—Detroit News. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U.S. Patent Office, $$.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign ‘oantries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents, Back cannot be supplied. text_and illustrations in Live ave copyrighted. For Reprint Rights creat Britain apply to Live, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter London, E. C., England. The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams, Buildings, London, . Canadian distributor,’The American News Compan + 386-388 ‘St. James Street, Montreal,’ Canada. No contributions will be returned unless ai anied by stamped and addressed envelope. Live docs not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions, Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the date of issue to be affected. Lerabiaded 1476 Zand 4 E Forty-Fourth Street NEW YORK XPONENTS ‘of fashionable conservatism in gentlemen's ap- parel. £S 13Ke a Ten-Strike, PesFfect.— To Readers of LIFE D° YOU play golf? Do you fish, ride, play tennis, bowl, pitch horseshoes, sail a boat, dance, swim or enjoy lying on a glistening beach, watching the sky and soaking up the warm sun- shine? You can do all these in Daytona Beach this winter—if you'll come. Such great artists as Schipa, Galli Curci, Kreisler, Heifitz, Homer, Schumann-Heinck, Zimbalist. Martinelli, New York and Cleveland Symphonies, Will Rogers and Elsie Janis will entertain you. (Not by radio but in person.) Doesn't it sound great? Plenty of room at reasonable rates. Address Room 78, Cham. of Com. Bldg., Daytona Beach, Florida. “Chamber of Commerce, D. Send Book Explaining Way Your Winters are MANN OO ee ee eee ADORE mm ow ww we we wm ew www we = ee eee comicbooks.com