Life, 1919-01-30 · page 26 of 34
Life — January 30, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon (Top):** A car driven by an ex-tank corps soldier careens dangerously down a cliff near a "Danger" sign, with wealthy passengers inside. The satire mocks newly hired chauffeurs fresh from WWI military service—suggesting they drove tanks recklessly and apply the same dangerous driving to civilian vehicles. This plays on post-war anxiety about militarized men returning to peacetime society. **Comic Strip (Bottom):** Two panels show domestic humor: a hat-check girl asks a distracted man if he's forgotten something; he replies "Oh yes, dear!"—implying he's forgotten his wife. This is standard era humor about absent-minded husbands and marital forgetfulness. **Text Section ("Learning"):** Discusses whether gentlemen should work for a living—reflecting post-WWI class debates about labor and social obligation. The page satirizes post-war readjustment and social class anxieties of the 1920s.
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WHEN THE VANDEROCKS HIRED THEIR NEW CHAUFFEUR THEY NEGLECTED TO NOTE THAT HE WAS AN EX-TANK CORPS DRIVER JUST RELFASED FROM SERVICE will not be necessary to issue the Bul letin in. It is good for any war. The best thing to do is to feed it now to the inhabitants of Europe, and Iet Mr. Creel stay with us a while The inhabitants of Europe will become so absorbed by its contents that they will forget all about Homer and Hans Christian Andersen and Munchausen. Learning have learned in’ England,” Beith (lan Hamilton), ay work for a living ris a step forward for Eng- And the next step may be to learn whether a man may be a gen- tleman and not work for a living. The sentiment is quite strong, and is grow= ing, that in life, as in a racing boat, a man should at least pull his own weight. Hat-Check Gi COTTEN soy HAVEN'T YOU FoR- ETHING, SIR? Absent-Minded Husband: bear! comicbooks.com