Life, 1911-11-16 · page 36 of 44
Life — November 16, 1911 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements** rather than satirical editorial content. The ads include Maillard's cocoa (emphasizing quality and 60 years of tradition), and a Remington typewriter promoted as an office essential. The single **cartoon** at bottom depicts two women in what appears to be a domestic interior. One asks "Are you a good cook?" The other responds "Of go t' church twice every Sunday!" The joke reflects **early 20th-century gender expectations**: the cartoon satirizes how women might deflect from cooking ability by pointing to religious devotion instead—suggesting either that church attendance was considered an acceptable substitute for domestic skills, or that pious women were assumed competent homemakers regardless of actual cooking ability. It's gentle satire on gendered social assumptions and the priorities placed on women's roles. The page also includes a notice recruiting college students to join Life's College Students' League.
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