Life, 1927-03-24 · page 15 of 38
Life — March 24, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking 1920s social trends: **"Just Between Us Girls"** (top left): A cartoon criticizing a "League" formed to prevent drinking and partying. The writer (Lloyd Meyer) sarcastically attacks the idea as prudish and impractical, arguing that organized sobriety is absurd and that people will drink anyway. This satirizes Prohibition-era temperance movements. **"The Grand Scale"**: A cartoon showing a woman discussing marriage costs with others, concluding she wants money to buy a Ford rather than a husband—mocking both materialistic marriage attitudes and the growing consumerism around automobiles. **Other brief items**: Include gossip about local events (a theatrical production, a wedding) and a "Fairy Story" joke about a divorceé's mercenary marriage expectations. The page reflects Jazz Age skepticism toward moral reform movements.
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“M’ dear, DID you read about this absurd LEAGUE 4 or something that these peculiar people in Chi- CAgo or somewheres have formed? I mean the iDEA of it is PERfectly abSURD, my dear, because it is to prevent PETting and drinking GIN at PARties and th because I mean these riDICulous people who have FORMED this LEAGUE effect, you see, have ORganized against PETting and DRINKing because I mean they have this ODD and raucous iDEA that you can have a good time at a PARty without PETting and DRIN King, which is so perfectly riDICulous and ling, my dear, because I mean the ONly way t to igNORE things like that because I mean r ALL, my dear, it is nobody's BUSiness when you go to» party WHAT you do! But ANYways, my dear, I think these ChiCAgo people who have formed this LEAGUE must be actually a very RAUcous crowd of people if they pet and DRINK so OBviously that it is so NOticeable that they have to ORganize an organ- iZAtion to STOP it, because I mean personally speak- ing for mySELF I do not beLIEVE in NECKing be- cause I think you are simply making yourself CHEAP when you let anybody PET you especially at a PARty where there is practically AL. s some FOUL person prying aROUND who is CERtain to SEE you, and I mean I have ALways been against DRINKing on PRINciple because I mean I prac- ticably NEVer drink anything but COC Ktails and chhaomPAGNE, ANY- ways, my dear, because I mean I HONestly do not think it is NICE for « virl to drink WHISky because it is VULgar, but I mean I think this idea of a LEAGUE to prevent petting and drinking is ACtually the most MUtilating idea in the WORLD, my dear, because it simply docs not make SENSE—I mean I ACtoally DO!” Lloyd Mayer. Fairy Story “T'VE had enough of married life!” exclaimed a divorcee. “I wouldn't marry another man if he had iwenty millions!" “Marry me!” begged a man worth twenty millions. “No,” replied ‘she. “{ WISH I HAD THE MON “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED FoR?” “WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WANTING TO GET MARRIED? I WANT THE The Accursed O# I shall be, till Gabriel's trump, Nostalgic for some distant dump; And ever doomed to weep me dry For some lost mediocre guy. Dorothy Parker. binneyville Bugle PLAY called “Abie’s Irish Rose” will be the attrac- tion at the Opera House next Friday evening. Its advance agent was here to-day and told Manager Smith that the show would be taken on to New York after- wards if Binneyville folks registered their approval of it. ** * Miss Sophronia Wells was married Wednesday eve- ning at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Wells, Franklin Street. Quite a few of the guests pres- ent were invited. * * * Uncle Si Chadders predicts an early summer. The old horse-hair sofa in his parlor has commenced to shed already, Fred B. Mann. y tee The Grand Scale ] RS. HOWARD: When my daughter first mar- ried she lived at the rate of fifty thousand a year. Mrs. Jay: How long did they keep it up? Mrs. Howarp: For their seven- day wedding y TO GET MARRIED.” MONEY TO BUY A FORD.” comicbooks.com