Life, 1916-04-27 · page 10 of 44
Life — April 27, 1916 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "Dinner in the Suburbs"** This sketch satirizes suburban dinner etiquette and the emerging telephone culture. The caption humorously notes that dinner is "the sacred hour in which your friends know they can reach you by telephone"—mocking the intrusion of early telephone technology into family dining. The joke is that people interrupt meals with calls, making dinner an unsuitable "sacred" time for peace. **Bottom Cartoon: "Laced Up the Back"** This cartoon ridicules a boot designed specifically for men "who always swear when hooking up their wives' gowns." It's a satire on the impracticality of women's Victorian-era fashion with lacing, which required husbands' assistance to fasten—creating domestic friction and profanity. **Editorial Section: "Protect the Weak and Helpless"** A Methodist Church policy opposing military preparedness is critiqued, arguing pacifism cannot protect vulnerable populations without military strength.
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SSS S SSS SSSSSQ SSSAQy Y \ \ \ DINNER IN THE SUBURBS THE SACRED HOUR IN WHICH YOUR FRIENDS KNOW THEY CAN REACH YOU BY TELEPHONE. AN IDEA TO SAVE GETTING UP FROM THE TABLE Protect the Weak and Helpless O NE reads in the papers that the New York conference of the Methodist Church is opposed to all warlike preparation, “except as much as is necessary to protect the weak and helpless.” That much will do very well. Give us the ability to pro- tect the weak and helpless, and the great majority of pre- parers will be satisfied, But in order to do as much as that we need a proper army ana trained reserve force and an adequate, up-to-date navy. Without a force competent and sufficient to protect the whole country we cannot protect the weak and helpless. LACED UP THE BACK “WES, there is a real idea back of everything ie writes.” THIS SMART BOOT WAS INVENTED ESPECIALLY FOR THE MEN “Yes, all the way from one to two thousand years WHO ALWAYS SWEAR WHEN HOOKING UP THEIR WIVES’ GOWNS back.” comicbooks.com