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This page contains several satirical pieces targeting early 20th-century social behaviors: **"Field Fever (After Masefield)"** parodies poet John Masefield's romantic celebration of nature and adventure ("Sea Fever"). The satire inverts Masefield's noble sentiments, depicting picnickers as destructive vandals who litter forests with "newspapers strewn and broken glass," trample bluebells, and leave orange peels and eggshells. It mocks the gap between urbane tourists' pretensions about appreciating nature and their actual careless behavior. **The "Repartee" cartoon** shows a humorous London bus exchange: a driver confronts another driver about reckless driving with his "old rabbit hutch" (slang for a ramshackle vehicle), but the passenger insults him, prompting the driver's sarcastic comeback asking if the heckler is also present. **"Club Life in Missouri"** satirizes a university club whose membership requirements—hoboing 1,000 miles, sleeping in boxcars, begging meals—are presented ironically as promoting "moral tone." The joke is the contradiction between disreputable behavior and stated moral purposes. The page is primarily text-driven satire rather than visual cartooning.

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PRAQIR ee & FIELD FEVER (AFTER MASEFIELD) I west go down to the woods again, to the silent heath and the downs, Aod all I ask is a sharp knife and some com- rades from the towns; dod a thick stick and a thin prong and the primrose waking, ‘And a free hand in the free space with the gray ferns breaking. | must go down to the woods again, for the sign of the budding spring Isa wild call and a clear call to ruin the lovely thing And all I ask is a bluebell wood with the egg- shells flying, Acd the flung skins and the orange peel and the violets dying, town to the woods again, to uproot ck and kill; To the hog’s way and the ape’s way, where there blossoms one daffodil, And all I ask is to spoil the scene for the laugh- ing nature lover, And newspapers strewn and broken glass when the picnic’s over, I must go Repartee Bus Driver (to driver of growler): Nau, THEN! LOOK WHERE YOU'RE COMING TO WITH THAT OLD Rassit ‘uTCH! Indignant Fare: curs Your RUDE TONGUE, MY Mant Bus Driver: ’UtLo, BUNNY, ARE YOU THERE TOO? 27 CLUB LIFE IN MISSOURI From the Columbia (Mo.) Herald: ‘*Thirteen students of Missouri University at Columbia have formed an organization known as the Quo Vadis club. To be eligible to membership one must have bummed at least 1,000 miles without pay- ing railroad fare, must have slept one night in a box car and must have had at least one free meal at the back door. Membership is limited to thirteen. The purpose of the club is to raise the moral tone of the university." —Buffalo Courier-Express. Wine jelly when Savored with Abbott's Bitters is made more delightful and healthful. Sample Bitters by mail, 25 ct in stampa CW. Abbott & Co, Maltimore, Md. STILL THEY COME Tis is the latest product of the Aberdeen Joke Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Market-street, Aber- deen: A Londoner was asked by his little son, **Dad- dy, is Aberdeen close to Edinburgh?"* “Yes, my boy,"’ said the father. Then, after a moment, ‘And to every other town in Scot- land.""—London Daily Chronicle, Wats anything in Chicago is all over but the shooting, it hasn't even begun. —L. F. R., in London Morning Post. —Passing Show (London). —Arkansas Gazette. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S. nd illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter ndow, E England. The foreign ‘trade supplied from Live's fon Othce,’ Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. No contributions will be “returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Live does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks grigs to the date of issue to be affected. All communications should be addressed to LIFE, 598 Madison Avenue, New York. Yearly Subscription Rate, $5.00 (Canadian, $5.80; Foreign, $6.60). : “Did you tell your mother you were coming to the library?” “Naw, I didn’t have to —she knows where we're goin’ when we wash our hands.” ESTABLISHED 1818 Caer Furnishing ods, MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET, N. Y. Clothes for the Golfer Send for Brooxs’s Miscellany STON PALM BEACH NEWPORT LITTLE BUILDING PLAZA BUILDING AUDRAIN BUILOING eon. Bonaven County Rese 220 Bcsuwe Avenve comicbooks.com