Life — September 28, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine (page 359) contains a satirical cartoon and accompanying text pieces on early 20th-century themes. The main cartoon depicts a social scene: a well-dressed woman sits while two men in formal attire converse nearby. The caption reads: "Is it expensive sending your girls to college?" / "I should say so! My wife takes advantage of their absence to dress about twenty years younger than she really is." The joke satirizes changing gender dynamics—specifically, how women's education and independence (attending college) shifted family finances and social roles. The humor targets vanity and the economic burden of daughters' education, while implying wives used this opportunity to reinvent themselves fashionably. The accompanying text pieces—"All Over" and "A Difficult Situation"—appear to address broader post-war or political concerns, though OCR errors obscure exact meaning.