Life, 1919-07-10 · page 26 of 50
Life — July 10, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two satirical pieces from Life magazine: **"The French Babies"** (top): A fundraising announcement for French war orphans relief, presented with dry humor. Life acknowledges receiving $343,494.40 in donations but notes only $55.50 francs were actually remitted to Paris—a joke about administrative overhead or mismanagement of charitable contributions. The accompanying illustration shows a car breakdown, with the caption's pun about "dinner horn" being unheard. **"A Few Don'ts for the Kitchen Fusser"** (bottom): Humorously patronizing advice for husbands attempting to cook while wives are away. The "don'ts" mock men's incompetence in the kitchen—substituting handkerchiefs for pot holders, destroying new tablecloths, involving children as helpers, and leaving burnt food in the oven. The accompanying cartoon shows a woman sitting obliviously while a child warns her about a snake, playing on the theme of domestic chaos. Both pieces reflect early 20th-century gender stereotypes about domestic work and male inadequacy in household tasks.
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THE FIRST TIME FARMER GILL DIUN'T HEAK T The French Babies IFE has received for the relief of the French war orphans, in all, $343,494.40, from which we have remitted to Paris F $55.50 francs. We gratefully acknowledge from Mrs, George S, Chambliss, Norwalk, Conn., for Raby No. 3728. Renewats: Mary ‘T. Little, Honolulu, 11 5 Mary dd Miss Mary ‘Kelly Vizard, M . Philadel Va, $3 i gan Falls, Ca 33 PA. Mass., $12 EM on New York City. Ellis, Newark, N. J., Hume, Berkeley. itergere, Detroit, Corinne D, Schaum, York . Egypt, $16.49; Dorothy F BABY NUMBER 3724 Already acknowleds: W. G. Gaylord, Clar A Few Don'ts for the Kitchen Fusser WHEN your wife is away and you feel fully qualified to get your own supper— Don't substitute your pocket handkerchief for the hot- dish lifter, Don’t shake down the range as you do your furnace. Don’t think that you can’t do the job without the assist- ance of two or three of the children, Don't toss the carelessly strewn recipes on the kitchen shelf into the fire to help the blaze along. Don't set the red-hot cooking pans on the new table- cloth. DINNER HOKN IN GOODNESS KNOWS WIEN Don’t use the coal scuttle for clearing the table of bread crumbs, And don't, when through with the whole task, don't stalk out of the kitchen without clearing the oven of those shriveled potatoes you left there to warm up, and forgot. "SCUSE ME, AUNT! I HATE TO BOTHER YOU—RBUT I REALLY THINK YOU ARE SITTING ON A LITTLE SNAKE THAT I'VE MIS- LAtb.”