Life — July 30, 1914 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 174: Life Magazine - "Shall We Have a Holiday in August?" This page contains an article debating whether to establish a public holiday in August, comparable to Labor Day in July. The text proposes moving Lincoln's birthday from February to early August as a compromise solution. The accompanying cartoon (labeled "Romance") shows a domestic scene where a woman at a doorway tells a man: "No, Mrs. Henfoque, you can't come in—your husband says it would be hell!" The joke satirizes married life—suggesting husbands want to avoid their wives, making a holiday (presumably for family time together) unappealing. The cartoon humorously undermines the article's earnest vacation proposal by implying domestic discord makes extended time together undesirable.