Life — July 5, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page contains two distinct pieces from *Life* magazine: **Top section ("My Husband Says"):** A humorous domestic essay by L. Blanche Simpson about a motor outing to the hills. The piece gently satirizes her husband's preferences—he criticizes their elegant lunch setup at an inn as "indecent" and would prefer a "square meal" at a second-hand store afterward. It's satirizing masculine practicality versus feminine aesthetic sensibility, a common comedic theme of the era. **Bottom section ("The Unattainable"):** A golf cartoon featuring dialogue between a novice golfer and a professional. The novice asks if he'll ever become good; the professional responds there's "nae a gude gowfer in th' wurld"—using Scottish dialect for comic effect. The illustration shows golfers on a course. It's satirizing golf's impossibly high standards and the futility of amateur improvement. Both pieces use gentle domestic and sporting humor typical of early-20th-century *Life* magazine satire.