Life — March 25, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 547 This page contains two distinct satirical pieces about gender and social expectations: **"Soul Searchings of the Press"** (left column) critiques sensationalist newspaper headlines targeting women with questions like "Can the College Woman Love?" and "Can a Screen Vampire Make a Good Mother?" The author argues these headlines exploit feminine readers with trivial content, but acknowledges improvement in modern American press coverage. **The two cartoon illustrations** depict domestic scenes. The upper sketch shows a young woman with two men; the lower shows a man and woman at a doorway with the caption "AREN'T YOU GOING TO KISS THE LADY GOOD-BY, OSWALD?" / "IF YOU AIN'T GOT NO OBJECTIONS, MA, I'D RATHER KISS TH' DOG." These mock Victorian propriety and social courtesies around romance and leave-taking.