Life — January 24, 1930 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Scott Shorts & "Eliza and the Ice Man" This page contains humor columns and verses by W.W. Scott, plus a poem by Dalnar Deecning. **"Eliza and the Ice Man"** is a humorous poem about a woman engaged to marry an ice vendor, but who runs away with the janitor instead. The verse plays on class assumptions and romantic irony—she abandons her respectable fiancé for someone of lower social standing. **The top cartoon** shows what appears to be people viewing artwork or a sketch, with someone commenting on its quality as "real free-hand sketch work"—likely satirizing art criticism or pretension. **Scott's "Shorts"** are brief satirical observations on contemporary American life: Girl Scouts, New York nightlife, taxi drivers, marriage, wealth, and social climbing. The final item notes that "reading maketh a fool man," mocking intellectual pretension.