Life, 1921-04-21 · page 13 of 36
Life — April 21, 1921 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: 1. **Top illustration**: "About 3 A.M., Sunday, One of Aunt Jennie's Bottles of Grape Juice Blew Up" — appears to reference Prohibition-era humor, showing someone discovering a bottle has exploded, likely implying home-fermented alcohol disguised as "grape juice." 2. **"In the Toils of the Bolsheviki"**: A fictional story fragment about escape from Soviet Russia, reflecting 1920s anti-communist anxieties common in American satirical magazines. 3. **"A Stone Age Romance"**: A four-panel comic strip titled "Love at First Sight," "The Wooing," "The Acceptance," and "Domestic Bliss" — appears to be humor about prehistoric courtship and marriage, likely satirizing romantic conventions through anachronistic caveman scenarios. The content reflects early 1920s American preoccupations with Prohibition enforcement and communist fears.
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ABOUT 3 A. M., SUNDAY, ONE OF AUNT JENNIE’S BOTTLES OF GRAPE JUICE BLEW UP In the Toils of the Bolsheviki LL*night long the drosky dashed over through the darkness. Over that white-clad region not a sound could be heard except the swish of the driver's whip and the occasional howl of Under the robes that covered Sonia Petrinoff clung to her Olga in an ecstasy of fear. At she shivered. With the came the inevitable. A group of Cossacks surrounded them; roughly they were dragged from the sleigh) amid the jeers of their captors. the snow a wolf, them every sound dawr wandering LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Suddenly the laughter stopped; they had been recognized. At noon, heavily fet- tered, they stood before the magistrate, Nikolai Nikolaivitch, the “ Red-Handed.” “ Sonia and Olga Petrinoff,” he said, “ you are accused of conspiracy against Soviet Government of Russia, and of try- ing to escape to New York. Tell me, how, with our system of guards and spies, did the you expect to be able to cross the ocean to America?” “Ina boat,” replied Olga. The End. A STONE AGE ROMANCE THE WOOING THE ACCEPTANCE The Neighborhood Movement EASHORE or mountains this sum- mer?” “ Neither, and give the local highwaymen a chance.” I'm going to stay in town This Sporting Life “DID you go to the fight last night?’ “No, I went to hear the lecture on Ireland.” “Oh—who wor A PREJUDICE is a conviction not shared by you. DOMESTIC BLISS comicbooks.com