Life — May 8, 1919 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Air Raid" and "Ask Dad—He Knows" This page contains two cartoons satirizing World War I domestic life. **"The Air Raid"** (left) depicts a woman fleeing in panic from an air attack, her composure abandoned as she runs through grass. This reflects anxieties about German aerial bombardment of Britain—a new, terrifying warfare technology that threatened civilians on the home front, not just soldiers. **"Ask Dad—He Knows"** (bottom right) shows a man being pestered by women asking questions about the war, with "Father and the Girls" emerging from his head in exasperation. This jokes about husbands becoming unwilling experts on military matters, pestered endlessly by wives and daughters hungry for war news and information they cannot access themselves. Both cartoons capture wartime social disruption and gender anxieties.