Life — February 13, 1919 — page 29: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a humorous single-page comic from Life magazine depicting a dog's complaints about home life during wartime (likely WWI era, given the "5'15" train reference and "war is hell" closing line). The dog expresses various frustrations: inability to chew socks, forced tolerance of the cat, indifference toward balls, and questioning the usefulness of fish without a fisherman to catch them. He wonders if he'll ever mess up a bed again and laments that digging up flowers would now be "sacrilege." The final panel—"the 5'15 is now just a passing train"—likely suggests the dog's owner has departed for military service. The caption "War is Hell, Indeed—For the Home Folks!" frames this as domestic inconvenience during wartime: the joke being that the dog's petty grievances represent how war disrupts even trivial home routines when family members enlist or are drafted.