Life, 1921-05-19 · page 9 of 36
Life — May 19, 1921 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a satirical illustration titled "Affinities" depicting a street scene with well-dressed men in top hats observing a small boy leading a dog on a leash. The caption reads: "What kind of husband would be seen leading a dog like that on a leash?" / "The kind of husband who would marry a woman who owned a dog like that." The joke plays on social class anxieties of the era. The cartoon satirizes the pretensions of wealthy urbanites who keep small lap dogs as status symbols. By showing gentlemen observing this spectacle with apparent disdain, it mocks both the ostentatious display of pet ownership and the judgmental attitudes of the supposedly refined observer class. The accompanying text discusses anti-tobacco fanatics and Turkish marriage customs—unrelated social commentary typical of Life magazine's miscellaneous satirical format.
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AFFINITIES “WHAT KIND OF HUSBAND WOULD BE SEEN LEADING A DOG LIKE THAT ON A LEASH?” “THE KIND OF HUSBAND WHO WOULD MARRY A WOMAN WHO OWNED A DOG LIKE THAT.” teen sordid years behind protruding teeth surged through her untidy soul, She wanted love. But it was not her husband that she loved so fiercely. It was old Grandfather Twilly. And he was too dead. PART 3. In the dining-room of the Twilly’s house everything was very quiet. flyspecks. Even the vinegar cruet, which was covered with Grandma Twilly lay with her head in the baked potatoes, poisoned by Mabel, who, in turn had been poisoned by her husband and sprawled in an odd posture over the china- closet. Wilbur and his sister Bernice had just finished choking each other to death, and between them completely covered the carpet in that corner of the room where the worn spot showed the bare boards beneath like ribs on a chicken’s carcass. Only the baby survived. She had a mean face and had long streaks of Imperial Granum down her bib. As she looked about her at her family, a great hate surged through her tiny body. She wanted to get down from her high-chair and show them all how much she hated them. Bernice’s husband, the man who came after the waste paper, Staggered into the room. The tips were off both his shoe- licings. The baby experienced a voluptuous sense of futility at the sight of the tipless lacings and lcered suggestively at her uncle-in-law. “We must get the roof fixed,” said the man, very quietly. “Tt lets the sun in.” Smokers, Ahoy ! NYBODY who thinks the Anti-Tobacco fanatics are not.in earnest has another guess coming. in earnest. In a wealthy country like America, there are people who will back the fanatics with money. When you have acquired the habit of drawing a salary for being a fanatic, you are not likely to quit. The Anti-Tobacco workers are organized and the rest of us are not. When you wake up some day and find that a minority has succeeded in depriving you of your pipe, you will wish that you had done something about it before it was too late. Open Covenants Openly Arrived At bs I “HE latest news from Turkey is that the government is con- sidering a bill to compel all men over twenty-five to marry. A fanatic is always The number of prospective Turks is not large enough. That is hard on the Turks, The Turkish girls are bundled up so that it is difficult to know what kind of a wife one is getting. America is much more civilized in this respect. If an American marries a girl, and has eyes in his head, he knows pretty well beforehand just what she is, ‘D? you meet Deepthinker, the British novelist, while you were in England ?” “No, when I returned to New York.” comicbooks.com