Life, 1919-04-17 · page 13 of 46
Life — April 17, 1919 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Section:** "This Season's Pest" is a humorous poem offering comedic advice on dealing with insects—using powder guns, sticky paper, and physical force. It's lighthearted domestic humor typical of the era. **Middle Illustration:** Shows children playing outdoors near tall grass, captioned "Hey, Bill! Listen! There's a couple of guys havin' a terrible fight on the other side o' this hedge!" The joke reflects children's imaginative exaggeration of minor events. **"Home!" Section:** Discusses household items that define a woman's domestic space—worn cushions, faded carpets, family pictures—emphasizing feminine domesticity and household management as core to women's identity. **Bottom Cartoon:** "How Times Square is Going to Look to a Broadway Johnny" depicts urban Prohibition-era decay: closed saloons and bars, homeless figures, economic hardship. This satirizes the social consequences of Prohibition on entertainment districts and urban life.
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This Season’s Pest Swing upon him with a vim. Whale the daylights out of him Ask your neighbor to assist. Thrash the insect. Use your fist Take a little powder-gun, Hold it ready. Squirt it, son. End each crawling, sneaking one. Reams of sticky paper buy. Ever keep your swatter nigh. Down it now—the Bolshefly. Terrell Love Holliday. Home! T is said that home is the place where a man hangs his hat, but with a woman it is different. There is a rocker with a worn cushion, a clock that doesn’t keep time, a quilt tha? is n, a strip of carpet that is faded, ew old family pictures, an old-fash- ioned vase, a meat platter, a cup and a few plates that do not match and are chipped around the edges. These, and a few more, known in feminine lan- “HEY, BILL! LISTEN! THERE'S A COl ON THE OTHER SI guage as “her own things,” are needed, in the final reckoning, to make a place a home for a woman. EO" GUYS HAVIN’ A TERRIBLE FIGHT pO’ THIS HEDGE!” ACHER: What is an alibi? Bricut Boy: where you ain't HOW TIMES SQUARE 1S GOING TO LOOK TO 4 BROADWAY JOHNNY Being somewhere comicbooks.com