Life, 1921-05-19 · page 14 of 36
Life — May 19, 1921 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains two satirical cartoons mocking domestic situations. **Top cartoon**: Shows a social gathering where a woman (Mrs. Catterson) complains to another guest about her husband's tedious conversation. The joke satirizes boring husbands who talk excessively—a common complaint in early 20th-century domestic satire. **Bottom cartoon** ("Mr. Neely Wed"): Depicts a man dramatically gesturing while his wife lies injured on a bed, with the caption "Quick, Marie! Call a doctor for my wife—I cut my finger." The satire mocks self-centered husbands who treat minor personal injuries as emergencies while ignoring their wives' serious injuries. Both cartoons target male egotism and absent-mindedness in marriage—typical subjects of *Life*'s humor during this era.
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“MRS. CATTERSON 1S TALKIN YOUR HUSBAND TO DEATH OVER THERE.” “YES, AND POOR HENRY IS SO TACTFUL THAT TO LOOK AT HIM YOU'D REALLY THINK HE WAS LISTENING.” Method, Maybe NEW YORK boy, convicted of being a-loafer, has been sentenced by a judge to three months’ reading in a public library, the diet recommended Dickens and Hawthorne. being With an, epoch-making novel by some Mr, Newly Wed: QUICK, MARIE! American genius coming out every week or so, this is a surprising sentence. But perhaps the judge thought that if the boy began on Dickens and Hawthorne, he might gradually work himself up to the lofty heights of Amy Lowell, Scott Fitz- gerald, H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. Fifty Years After (Longfellow’s “There Was a Little Girl Who Had a Little Curl,” was pub- lished in the spring of 1871, just fifty years ago, in the Balloon Post, a daily printed in Boston for six days in con nection with the French Fair, held for the French war sufferers. Miss Susan Hale was editor. It appeared without Longfellow’s name, and with music “ for three voices,” and it should encourage writers of light verse to know that, anonymous as it was, it still lives, though signed contributions of Henry James, Howells, Bret Harte, Weir Mitchell and others are forgotten.) HERE was a little man Who at study was a fan, And over his books kept porir When he talked just enough Tt was right good stuf, But when he talked too much Tt was boring. There was a little wife, Her husband’s joy in life, Baked natal; cakes for his anniversary The first were so light They made the birthday bright, But the last were so heavy They were fatal. Arthur He EN people hurry to catch up where one hurries to get ahead. CALL A DOCTOK FOR MY WIFE—I CUT MY FINGER, comicbooks.com