Life, 1927-09-15 · page 12 of 40
Life — September 15, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces from Life magazine: 1. **Top cartoon "Life"**: Two well-dressed figures discuss an ugly vase, with one saying "no one could admire a thing like that even if it were antique" — satire on pretentious aesthetes who value objects solely for their age or claimed artistic merit. 2. **"Hates"** (poem by Norman R. Jaffray): Satirizes annoying social behaviors — girls who hum "di, die, die, dum," people who say "don't be sil," and those dismissing youthful exuberance as foolish. 3. **"Mothering Mercedes"**: Mocks upper-class mothers' plans to send their daughters to technical schools (electrical engineering), predicting the daughters will abandon education for marriage, socializing, and ultimately opening a tea room — satirizing women's limited professional prospects and expectations in this era.
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“prepostrrousty so! Hates SLAY those maidens, as a rule, Who chirp: “Don't be a fool, you fool. 1 eat up little girls who hum: “Di, dee di, dee dum, dum, dum.” At “Don't be sil,” I pant with rage, And wince when told to “be your age.” Cries of “Don't be ridic” dismay me: Likewise confessions that “you slay me!" And I rebel at such jocoseries As “Boy! I'll say you know your groceries!" But how I thrill, and warm, and mellow When told “a funny fel- low! Norman R. Jaffray. Who's Sioux “LTERE,” snapped the editor, “rush a caption for this photo- graph of President Coolidge and Will Rogers as Indian chiefs.” Nonchalantly — the reader picked up his penc Politics,” he wrote, “makes strange red-fellows.” “WHAT A DISGUSTINGLY UGLY VAsE!" A THING WHY, NO ONE COULD ADMIRE WERE ANTIQUE.” LIKE THAT EVEN IP IT Mothering Mercedes “WYVERE sending Mercedes to a technical school this year for a course in electrical engineering. We want her to get along well with ‘you JUST KNOW SIE WEARS THEM.” men, marry, and have a home, so we to give her the necessary ages. ‘Think what it n to her to be able to dis- cuss radio with her men friends on an equality, She will never be at a loss in a crowd when the talk drifts around to automobile engines or air- motors. are tryin tiful girl but and we think that if she can take a couple of years of electrical and then a year or two of automotive, and perhaps a semes- ter of bridge building and structural, she will have a brilliant social suc- cess. And then, of course, she may use it some day. If she should not marry and should start a tea room she will be able to » the sand- wich machine in repair, Anyhow, she will be equipped to take part in a modern conversation, I've prac- tically been silent since 1907.” McCready Huston. Different CUSTOMER: I want to buy a col- ar. Crerk: What kind? Like the ohe you have o: Customer: No, I want a clean one. comicbooks.com