Life, 1919-05-08 · page 10 of 46
Life — May 8, 1919 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
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.
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The Biograph FERDINAND FOCH "Rave E linguis!” «meat Hush!” And hear a Song of Marshal F< The Lion-hearted Pyrenean Whose Battle-stroke is Maccabean When through Lorraine the Te sallied, A shattered Line his Genius rallied His Right was broke, his Center cle Said he, “Tl Lick 'em with my Left Because an Army Corps retreated They thought him Hopelessly Defe But Foch, he didn't Give a Darn He turned and Smashed Marne Another Hannibal or Caesar, Again he whipped ’em on the Yser And helped to save the Channel h other Maritime Resorts “Napoleon and Alexander! ‘make this Chap Supreme ( mander !” They cried, and did. He massed Men, And Smashed ‘em on the Marne a So, when we've had Enough Disputing About the Recent Spell of Shootin And Who did Less and Which did More Perhaps they'll say He Won the War! Arthur Guitermas Relieving the Monotony HUSBAND: Now, madam, shall we talk alimony? Wire (seeking divorce): Why not? It will be the first interesting thing you have launched since we were married THE ATR RAID duty finishes his work, let him take his profits or his pension and wipe his feet, and enter into peace and the joy of his Lord. Let him he quit of strife and of the giving of judgment, and of all responsibility for knowing the news and guessing the truth about it, and, most of all, of all need to know what views his successors entertain and put into the pages that he once ruled. The chances are he won't like them, and he will do best to get his indispensable information about affairs out of some paper that was never his E.S.M. HE associated powers have lifted the embargo on German postal, telegraph and wireless communication. Maybe they will help out the United States some day. “ASK DAD—HE KNOWS” puttin. comicbooks.com