Life — August 4, 1898 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Life* magazine (page 92) features a single cartoon showing two figures in what appears to be an interior domestic setting. An older man reclines in a chair on the left, while a woman sits across from him on the right. The caption reads: "My dear young lady, do you ever think of marrying?" with the response "Think? Why, I worry." The satire targets anxieties about marriage, presenting the woman's worry as a humorous counterpoint to the man's casual inquiry. The cartoon appears to mock either courtship conventions or women's genuine concerns about matrimony—likely reflecting early 20th-century social anxieties about marriage expectations for women.