Life, 1921-01-06 · page 9 of 44
Life — January 6, 1921 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate satirical pieces: **"The Model Boy"** (left column) describes a boy who deliberately avoids all normal boyish activities—no hockey, cheap novels, or mischief—and refuses to shovel snow or smoke, mimicking his wealthy father's pretensions. The satire mocks excessive parental ambition and class-conscious child-rearing. **"Recipe for a Happy Wife"** (right column) humorously lists expensive antique furnishings—Windsor chairs, grandfather clocks, Oriental rugs—as ingredients for domestic contentment, satirizing the consumerist assumption that material goods ensure marital happiness. The photograph below titled **"Habeas Corpus Proceedings"** appears to show a winter scene of someone being physically forced or coerced, possibly illustrating legal proceedings or social commentary, though its exact connection to the above pieces is unclear from the image alone.
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The Model Boy Hé never plays hookey; school is far too entertaining. He never reads ten-cent novels; they are not in it with twenty- cent movies. He does not hang around street corners; he cuts around them in a roadster. He does not smoke out behind the harn; it’s a garage now. He never refuses to shovel the snow— as often as his father can afford it Recipe for a Happy Wife 'AKE one original Windsor chair, one rush-bottom ladder back, one great-grandfather’s clock, one spinet, one walnut drop-leaf table, one fireside wood basket, one Cape Cod fire lighter, one peachblow vase, one copper-lustre vase and one Colonial mirror. Mix thoroughly and at the last moment add one Oriental rug. Put in a warm place. HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS comicbooks.com