Life — April 15, 1920 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains a multi-panel comic strip by W.Z. Enwright satirizing domestic life and horticulture. The narrative follows a portly gentleman who: 1. Smuggles tobacco into his home 2. Receives geraniums as a gift ("Geraniums, Sir") 3. Attempts to cultivate them indoors with various containers and equipment The final panel shows the man's wife confronting him about his homemade geranium-growing operation, with the caption "Yes sir, grew 'em and made 'em myself." The satire appears to mock men's domestic incompetence and over-engineering simple gardening tasks, while also playing on Prohibition-era anxieties about illicit home production (the tobacco smuggling reference strengthens this). The humor relies on visual absurdity and the contrast between the man's elaborate efforts and the mundane task of growing flowers indoors.