Life, 1920-10-21 · page 36 of 44
Life — October 21, 1920 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **four separate advertisements and one cartoon**, not political satire. **Advertisements:** Milo Violets cigarettes (25 for 10 cents), a Stetson hat for 1920, and a Life magazine subscription pitch emphasizing it prevents homesickness for students away at school. **The Cartoon (bottom right):** Shows a domestic scene where a wife asks her husband if he's attending church. He declines, saying he's playing a golf match with Jones instead, but offers to have her pray for him. **The Joke:** This is gentle social satire about **priorities and male leisure activities**—the husband values his golf game over religious observance, a common theme in early 20th-century humor about middle-class masculinity. The cartoon gently mocks how men justified prioritizing sports/recreation while their wives maintained religious duties. It reflects 1920s attitudes about gender roles and the growing popularity of golf as a status activity among men.
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Delicately Scented Gold oh YY) a ines i C Ch J oe De Dac if rr Ox De Luxe of YS fe AS, 100-$ 230 Sf your de cannot supply you rwrite Dept. MV. 1790 Broadway New York IN CANADA 38 CATHCART ST MONTREAL. The Best Gift For the Boy or Girl at school or college, includes a subscrip- Life As a preventive of homesickness it is unequalled. A good, hearty laugh each week dissipates the blues. Try it for eight months, $3.34, or $2.50 for a half year, or, Obey That Impulse, and for a trial trip, avail yourself of our Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $t.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Lire for twelve issues to ns renewed at this FE, 17 West 31st Street, New York. One Year $5 Canadian $5.80 Foreign $6.60 23 HE Stetson Feature Hat for 1920 distinctly fulfills those qualities of style and workmanship so char- acteristic of Stetson Hats for half a century. Smart in appearance, with a fine feeling of strength and dignity. JOHN B. STETSON COMPANY. Philadelphia. “ AREN'T YOU COMING TO CHURCH To-Day, HENRY?” “NO, DARLING ; BUT YOU MIGHT PRAY FOR ME, I'M PLAY? ING A MATCH WITH JONES THIS MORNING.” consti just v comicbooks garam