Life, 1928-03-01 · page 10 of 42
Life — March 1, 1928 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **satirical humor pieces** rather than political cartoons: 1. **"Domestic Relations"** - A poem by Arthur L. Lippmann critiquing indulgent parenting. It mocks wives who spoil their sons with leniency, contrasting this with the speaker's preference for discipline ("toddle down life's Highway"). 2. **"Two Recent Graduates Discuss Their Classmates"** - A dialogue satirizing what became of seminary and law school graduates. The humor lies in their career outcomes: one became a stage actor, another a hospital intern, another in the legal profession—with the punchline suggesting the speaker is "going murderer" (dark humor about becoming cynical). 3. **"Priceless"** - A brief joke about movie actresses and necklaces, playing on materialism. The cartoons mock early 20th-century social pretensions and changing career paths of educated men.
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ess “I want a magazine fer ’Enry—but none o’ this art business, mind ya.” Two Recent Graduates Discuss Their Classmates IRST RECENT GRADUATE: And Bill—remember Bill?—he’s finished theological school and has a little church somewhere upstate. Seconpb Recent Grapvate: Yeah? I understood he went re- ligious. Finsr R. G.: Hank's writing. He's had quite a lot of stuff in the Wednesday Evening Bulletin. He's working on a novel, too. Seconp R. G.: Yeah? stood he went literary. First R. G.: Joe's been studying at Harvard Law and he's gotten in with Green, Eagen & Smith. Seconn R. G.: Yeah? stood that he went legal. First R. G.: Pete’s left his family I under- I under- and now he’s on the stage with Wal- lace Hammond's company. Going to make a name for himself, I bet. Seconn R. G.: Yeah? I under- stood that he went actor. First R. G.: And Jim finished at Hopkins last spring. He's an interne now at some hospital in Philadelphia. Seconn R.G.: Yeah? I understood that he went medical. Finst R. G.: And as for you and me—do you know what? I've been going crazy for the past few min- utes and now I'm going murderer. That means, of course, that you're going corpse. So long, old man. (Kills Seconn R. G.) Mason L. Ham. Domestic Relations BELOVED wife and mother of Our lad whose face effulgent Has captured your maternal love And made you too indulgent— Just listen to that pampered child Come yelling through the door way! He'll grow up crude, untamed and wild— If you have your way. His doting aunts and uncles, too, Encourage Junior's follies By bringing ‘lasses drops to chew And countless colored lollies. With Cousin Bob and Uncle Jim He's sliding down the stairway; We'll never do a thing with him— If they have their way. Yet though I speak of what I might Accomplish with our sonny Were I at home from morn to night Instead of earning money, Were I around to teach him how To toddle down life’s Highway, I fear he'd be much worse than now— If I had my way! Arthur L, Lippmann, Priceless IRST MOVIE ACTRESS: What a lovely necklace you have there, my dear. Seconp Movie Actress: Yes, and I’m very much attached to it for sentimental reasons. You see, I got each one of my husbands to add a pearl. “No” remarked the geometry pro- fessor as he squared the rec tangle, “it won't be oblong now.” Osserver: Missed him. Gunner: I never miss. Onsserver: Then run out and tell him to fall over. comicbooks.com