Life, 1919-06-19 · page 30 of 42
Life — June 19, 1919 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical cartoons mocking early 20th-century social anxieties: **Top cartoon:** Shows a woman supervising children playing outdoors while relaxing. The caption jokes that self-made women constantly change their plans, so projects never finish—satirizing the emerging "New Woman" figure gaining independence. **Bottom cartoon and article:** Titled "A New Source of Evil," it mocks Prohibition-era anxiety. A High Council of Prohibitionists meetings to ban hamamelis (a plant extract) as a potential cocktail base when a panicked councillor bursts in about intoxicating mushrooms. The satire targets prohibitionist hysteria—their endless search for new substances to ban becomes absurdly expansive, treating innocent items as threats to public morality. Both pieces mock contemporary anxieties: changing gender roles and increasingly zealous alcohol prohibition enforcement. The humor lies in exaggerating these concerns to reveal their underlying absurdity.
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1094 ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO PLAY ON TH ING THE GRASS, MSING CHILDREN, NOL WHY be YoU GRASS HIE reason we never hear of a self-made woman is because she changes the plans so frequently that the job is never finished “THE TRAGEDY OF IT! THAT WE—WE SHOULD HAVE A HOPE ve IsTIC CHILD! r } LAWN? THEY ARE &ULNS A New Source of Evil Hollis Webster, a mycolog turing at 3 stitute of Arts and Sciences, stated that some mushrooms are distinctly intoxicating. He told of a friend who, after partaking of one of these w red automobiles in his HE weekly meeting of the High Council of Prohibitionists was pro- ceeding in an orderly manner, Coun- cillor Graydust had made a motion that the sale of hamamelis be at- tacked on the ground that hamamelis might be made the base of cocktails or other intoxicating mixed drinks. This motion had been seconded, carried and ordered. First Vice-President Sauermouth was in the act of reading a report on Perfumery Odors as Incentives to In- dulgence in Spirituous Liquors, when the door burst open and Councillor Mushe staggered into the room with two spots of brilliant color on his pallid face, and with his knobby wrists flap- ping weakly. “Drop everything!” he exclaimed (Continued on page 1104) t comicbooks.com