Life — July 10, 1913 — page 27: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a humor cartoon satirizing young men's dating behavior in the early 20th century. An older man (apparently the father) confronts a young man, asking if he was "making love" to his daughter the previous evening. The young man's reply—"I was one of them"—suggests multiple suitors were courting the daughter simultaneously, and he cannot even recall which evening is being referenced. The joke targets both the casualness of young men's romantic intentions and the apparent popularity of the daughter, who entertained multiple callers. The cartoon satirizes shifting social attitudes toward courtship and suggests concerns among older generations about the loosening of Victorian-era dating conventions. The woman visible in the background appears to be the daughter in question.