Life, 1929-06-21 · page 19 of 40
Life — June 21, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate satirical pieces: **Upper section:** A diary entry by "Mrs. Peps" discussing literary and social gossip, including references to Frances Hartmann's birthday and visits to Rome. This appears to be society-page satire mocking upper-class pretension. **Lower cartoon:** Depicts a beach or swimming scene with adults and children in various states of undress. The caption reads: "HENRY: That's all right, somebody's got to teach these children modesty!" The joke satirizes parental hypocrisy—an adult figure suggests teaching children modesty while surrounded by scantily-clad beachgoers, implying adults themselves lack proper decorum. This mocks Victorian-era contradictions between preached moral standards and actual behavior. The page also features a poetry contest for picture titles and a "Poem for Unmarried Men."
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Life Hee Peps Diary> Can you think of a Title for this Picture? May 30—The morning by gone in the writing of an Ist Prize $500 Baird article on literary matters, 2nd Prize $250 Leonard and I was distressed to 3rd Prize $100 * find in the notes made in 4th to 9th Prizes preparations for it the preponderance of such parenthetical items as “Don’t forget Frances Hartmann’s birthday,” “2Y, yards of silk for slip” and “Ask Mary Eyre the name of her lingerie woman,” for they did aid me no whit in its composition, Charley Towne to see me, so droll that I am cheered for a week, whate’er befall, and he told me that, when he recently garbed himself in evening raiment in the morning to pay a visit to the Pope, he could not but reflect on what an excellent oppor- tunity was afforded him of doing as the Romans did. He did also tell me that Pius XI was the only cardinal in the conclave which elected him who had bought a return ticket to his native village, albeit he stated that he did not get the information firsthand. After luncheon, Sam and I to call on Ruth White in hospital, and as we read the names of the various patients on their doors, Sam did protest that their mala- dies were not also inscribed, which minded me that when I was recently in St. Luke’s, he lamented the lack of a list of the other inmates such as the steamship companies furnish, which does show that his mind, on $25 Each (Continued on Page 32) Poem For Unmarried Men I'd like to meet a jolly girl, A filled-with-fun-and-folly girl, A witty girl, a pretty girl, Appealingly petite, A charming, unaffected girl, A wealthy, well-connected girl, A sunny girl, a honey girl, The sweetest of the sweet; A captivating, gracious girl, A ravishing, vivacious girl, A slender girl, a tender girl, With eyes of azure blue, A marvelous, entrancing girl, A ready-for-romancing girl, A girl of girls, a pearl of girls— And so, no doubt, would you! Hussy: That's all right, somebody's got to teach these children modesty! —A. LL. comicbooks.com