Life — September 15, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Life Magazine Fortune Teller Feature This page presents "Life's Infallible Fortune Teller," a satirical feature matching birthdates (September 15-21) with predictions about future spouses. Each date pairs a woman's portrait with a man's, accompanied by humorous predictions about their compatibility and roles. The satire mocks period gender stereotypes: women are predicted to become decorators, homemakers, and mothers, while men become "fashionable portrait painters," "divorce lawyers," and "musicians." The feature ridicules both fortune-telling pseudoscience and rigid Victorian gender expectations. The left page contains "Oyster Bay" poetry (with Kipling attribution), likely satirizing political figures associated with that location, though specific identities are unclear from the text alone.