Life, 1923-12-27 · page 8 of 37
Life — December 27, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon illustrates a domestic dispute where a wife complains about her husband's response to her illness—he dismisses her ailments and sends her to the doctor, then suggests she take pills and go for walks rather than receive his sympathy. The satire targets unsympathetic husbands who minimize their wives' health concerns. The bottom illustration depicts a rural scene involving a horse-drawn vehicle and references "the liquor question"—likely alluding to Prohibition-era debates. The caption mentions a judge's involvement in a case involving someone's "potatoes" (possibly code for illegal alcohol), satirizing how Prohibition enforcement created absurd legal situations and judicial confusion around what constituted contraband.
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LIFE My Husband Says THt the next time I complain of feeling ill and he sends the doctor down to see me I must be at home when he calls. But the last time he came and found me in he gave me so many tablets he made me sick. . And I don’t care for the ties he wears, anyhow. After he went away I looked in the dictionary to see what was the matter with me and it wasn’t much, but I set the alarm clock to remind me when to take the pills and I got awfully nervous listening to it going off so many times. The tablets were all flavored, so I ate them all at once and felt lots better and went out to walk to the dentist. My husband says that the next time I am ill, unless I am lying unconscious, I can look in the dictionary to see what ails me and then go out and take a nice walk. L. Blanche Simpson 'HE New York Grand Jury is about to investigate some Little Boy Red: oH, PAPA! SEE WHAT SAX alleged immoral plays which are, by a remarkable BROUGHT ME! coincidence, all box-office hits. One may expect, before long - to hear unofficial prices quoted of twenty or thirty dollars a GOOD holiday signal at department store aisle crossings seat in the first panel, next to the judge, on the juries whose would be: “Shop! Look! Loosen!" painful duty it will be to go to the shows in question. THE LIQUOR QUESTION AT FOUR CORNERS “pID YE HEAR WHAT HAPPENED UP TO HEN BEER’S TOTHER DAY? JUDGE CROCKETT COME UP TO SEE HEN "BOUT SOME PLOWIN’, LAR WHERE HEN’S SORTING POTATOES, EN’ A BUNG OUT'N A BAR'L OF ELDERBERRY BLEW OUT EN’ HIT JUDGE BLACKED IT; GOIN’ TO SERVE HEN WITH A WRIT OF vino veritas, HE SAYS, OR LICK HIM, HE DON’T KNOW WHICH; SAYS HE’LL HAND DOWN HIS DECISION FUST OF NEXT WEEK. HEN’S SCAIRT.” comicbooks.com