Life, 1929-06-28 · page 16 of 37
Life — June 28, 1929 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page presents a diary entry by "Leonard" (byline visible) dated June 5, discussing funeral arrangements and choir music selection. The accompanying illustrations satirize indoor leisure activities. The top cartoon, labeled "Indoor Sports: That fine old English game, 'Cricket-on-the-hearth,'" shows two men playing cricket indoors using a fireplace hearth as the pitch—a visual pun on the phrase "cricket on the hearth" (a cozy domestic scene). The joke mocks the absurdity of playing an outdoor sport inside. The bottom illustration depicts a cottage window with someone looking out, captioned "Summer Cottage: Oh, Fred, come to the window and look at this wonderful view!" Both images use gentle humor to satirize domestic life and leisure activities of the era. The diary entry continues on page 30.
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Indoor Sports. That fine old English game, “Cricket-on-the-hearth.” SOUL ATG A wee WANA WR POLS ‘Aa le WAYS Sumaer Corracer: Oh, Fred, come to the window and look at this wonderful view! June 5—Abed far too long, by fully mindful of the adage Baird that he who rises late must Leonard trot all day, but I am now in that pleasant state of hav- ing a great deal to do, but nothing which needs absolutely to be done, the surest safeguard against ennui that [ know. So lay pondering the scheme of my funeral, including the hymns to be sung thereat, for I do mean to have a spirited processional, and no solemn clumping-in of choir boys, and those present, moreover, are to lift their voices to such tunes as “Wake, My Soul, and Stretch Thy Wings” and “I Heard a Sound of Voices Around the Great White Throne,” suitable but not melancholy, concluding conven- tionally with “Onward Christian Sol- diers,” in which I do think S. Baring- Gould served Sir Arthur Sullivan as well as Gilbert might have, and T am sorry now that I shall not be alive to hear it. In this connection, I was minded of one of our leading play- wrights, and how a wag at his obse- quies had remarked that the Biblical lesson delivered over his remains was the only script he had ever heard read in his presence, which he did not arise and assert to be a plagiarism from his own works, Suddenly aware that I have nought unimpeachably appro- priate to wear to a wedding or other formal afternoon function, up and off to the shops, finally choosing an Alengon lace, very handsome, which I do mean to have fashioned into a sleeveless frock and jacket, and albeit I do not believe the material to be veritable at the price, the semblance is good enough to deceive even those who may be prompted to lay hands on it for examination. Resolved this day to indulge for a time only in quiet, in- formative reading matter, (Continued on Page 30) comicbooks.com