Life, 1927-10-06 · page 16 of 40
Life — October 6, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page features **Mrs. Peps's Diary**, a recurring satirical column mocking upper-class social life. The main illustration shows a fashionable woman and man in 1920s dress, with dialogue about "Vassar girls" developing a "wonderful new cheer." The diary entry satirizes the pretensions of wealthy women who aspire to intellectual pursuits (French history, aesthetics, metaphysics) while remaining absorbed in trivial social gossip. The humor targets the contradiction between their stated noble ambitions and actual idle behavior. A smaller cartoon titled "A Bigger Supply of Cash" depicts financial anxiety—a tourist asking a villager to cash a check, highlighting class anxieties about money during this period. The page overall mocks the affectations and shallow concerns of the privileged classes, a characteristic target of *Life* magazine's satirical humor.
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To Alice, Who Saw Me Kissing Mary WHEN 1 brought you my love, 1 was humble and meek, Though my ardor was none the less burning; Then I that you w: but technique, dear, I have started in learnir Dick Chryst. “VV HAT sort of man is Snyder?” “All he needs is a car to be a drunken driver.” saw ited, not love, Se, my Hes. Wear THAT you WONDERFUL She: VASSAR GIRLS HAVE EVOLVED A NeW CHEER, Yes, MY DEAR, IT’S A SCREAM September The time of i again at hand when I 13th am fullest of high re solves, to lead a nobler and purer life for one thing, and to take up French history seriously for another, to the extent, at least, of which mistress belonged to Louis on the tip of my point of erudition which I am not able to manage without a bit of re- flection. It would also be a_ fine thing, methinks, to take up wstheties and metaphysics where I once so re- luctantly left. them, but Lord! I shall probably end up the season as usual, with an even break between my bridge winnings and sempstress’s bill. Mayhap J Penseroso was right about Amaryllis, ete., for, albeit the friends are year is having what tongue, 2 of my a con- versational cut above what the dry cleanser did to their plaited chiffons or the butler’s nipping at the claret, I do believe that few of them care even dispassionately whether or not Hamlet was mad. Going over the linen all this morning, finding our towels beginning to break, and three tea napkins missing from my newest Binche set, which put me in so des- that I almost guests searched house in’ the perate a moved to have my before leaving the future, it being a natural, if careless, error to stow them away as hand- kerchiefs. Marge Boothby to lunch- con, of stewed mushrooms in rice and id when I did confide am a fine salad to her my lofty plans for study and responded that she had resolved to do nought be- contemplation, she yond caring for the flowers in her house, so that she would not be i (Continued on page : Vaart] \persrt? \ WERE A Bigger Supply of Cash Tourist: CAN you ror ME? Banker (looking it over): 1 MN'T GOT THAT MUCH, BUT ULL TAKE OVER TO THE PILLING STATION AND INTRODUCE You. CASIL THIS CHECK Village you comicbooks.com