Life, 1922-06-29 · page 3 of 35
Life — June 29, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a poem titled "Day-Dreams" (signed D.P.) depicting domestic fantasies, paired with an illustration captioned "The Gang Teaches Mickey to Swim." The poem presents a woman imagining shared domestic life with a man—building a bungalow, cooking, cleaning, and cultivating intellectual pursuits together. It reflects early 20th-century romantic idealization of companionate marriage and domestic partnership. The illustration shows children teaching a younger boy to swim in water near a building, depicting childhood camaraderie and outdoor recreation. Both works appear to celebrate idealized life scenarios: the poem romanticizes domestic partnership and self-improvement, while the illustration celebrates innocent childhood bonding. The overall page reflects period values around domesticity, education, and wholesome recreation.
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Day-Dreams E’D build a little bungalow, I'd buy a little scrubbing-brush If you and I were one, And beautify the floors; And carefully we'd plan it, so I'd warble gaily as a thrush We'd get the morning sun. About my little chores. I'd rise each day at rosy dawn But though I’d cook and sew and scrub, And bustle gaily down; A higher life I'd find; In evening’s cool, you'd spray the lawn I'd join a little women’s club When you came back from town. And cultivate my mind. A little cook-book I should buy, If you and I were one, my dear, Your dishes I’d prepare; A model life we'd lead. And though they came out black and dry, We'd travel on, from year to year, I know you wouldn't care. At no increase of speed. How valiantly I’d strive to learn, Ah, clear to me the vision of Assured you'd not complain! The things that we should do! And if my finger I should burn, And so I think it best, my love, You'd kiss away the pain. To string along as two. The Gang Teaches Mickey to Swim comicbooks.com