Life, 1919-11-06 · page 13 of 36
Life — November 6, 1919 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** A street scene showing a tavern keeper discussing beer quality with a soldier on horseback and other figures. The caption jokes about beer sales during wartime—the keeper claims he can "rejoice a good deal more over the one per cent that's gone astray than the ninety-nine per cent that just takes up room." This satirizes profiteering: merchants celebrating waste because scarcity drives up prices during military conflicts. **Article: "Why Not Abolish the Home?"** Argues against anti-home sentiment among socialists and the wealthy elite. The author defends home life's value, citing Henry Ford's continued attention to his business and family. The piece advocates for preserving domestic life against what it characterizes as attacks from revolutionaries ("Bolshevists") and the privileged class. **Bottom Image:** "The First Monday at the Plymouth Colony"—depicting early colonial settlement activities.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
iin ) i “CAN YOU GET ANY KIND OF SENSATION OUT OF THIS BEER THEY'RE SELLING?” “WELL, 1 CAN REJOICE A GOOD DEAL MORE OVER THE ONE PER CENT THAT’S GONE ASTRAY THAN THE NINETY-NINE Why Not Abolish the Home? | 'HE bolshevists are against it. Our super-rich are against it, as is proven by the increasing vogue of Palm Beach and like watering places, and countless applications for pass ports. Our urban middle class has for some time been against the home, and is in a fair way to becoming hopeless ly addicted to the apartment habit And indubitably our farmers are en- tering the Los Angeles winter class. There really seems to be no place in modern life for the home. Henry Ford is attending to his own business, and that is a direct blow to the institution Our movie houses have become com fortable. Find the city that has not built or is not building, its palatial hotel; and with prices at their present level it is almost as cheap to eat there as it is to prepare one’s own victuals. Our daughters are working, and there is no longer the need for a refined- leisure background. Our self-styled PER CENT THAT JUST TAKES UP ROOM.” proletariat is up till dawn, taking strike votes. And Mr. Burleson’s service makes invalid any excuse that one must stay at home until the mail arrives. There seem to be fewer homes than ever. That estimable song-writer who. a few years since, wrote that he wanted “a little bunga- low, where the red, red roses grow,” could not today draw royalties from such a sentiment. Of course he might write that he wanted a little two-by- four, with a “Not In” on the door.” Why not abolish the home? THE FIRST MONDAY AT THE PLYMOUTH COLONY comicbooks.com