Life, 1924-03-13 · page 12 of 40
Life — March 13, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains three separate humorous pieces about domestic life. The top cartoon ("Standard Joke No. 4150-M") depicts two men discussing St. Patrick's Day—one carrying "a line of green goods" (likely counterfeit merchandise), a play on the holiday and commercial deception. The middle section, "My Husband Says," is a brief essay by L. Blanche Simpsonabout marital negotiations over breakfast habits and lunch dates—satirizing how wives must manage husbands' preferences and schedules. The bottom cartoon, "Acute Angling," shows a wife sympathetically responding to her husband's fishing story with exaggerated sarcasm ("What a nuisance!"), while he describes catching nothing. The final caption reveals the wife's actual concern: she must attend a matinee while the maid and children are sick. All pieces mock traditional gender roles and domestic expectations of the era.
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LIFE My Husband Says HAT ladies should always eat breakfast with their hus bands even if there is nothing about eggs in any form to inspire brilliant conversation; I sometimes wish ‘they came in a greater variety of colors, too. I really dislike rising so early but he likes to have me serve the coffce But he says he wishes I could remember the number of ps he takes. He thinks if I would commit that to nemory at home it might sometimes save embarrassment at | hotels. He it us interrogatively ys it makes him nervous to sce a waiter look It makes him awiully cross, too, when the clerk rings up 1 also the sts. his room and says he can't read his signature managem kes to know the home addresses of My husband’s Aunt Julia says hi ture looks like a worm in a fit, but [ just love to see it on the checks he gives tome. He says his Aunt Julia will never see it on anything more important than Birthday Greetings | Mrs, Swift says that personally she is much too hum: ne to allow her husband to see her before seven in the evening and later, daylight saving time, and she says she would cheerfully divorce any man who dared to appear at home for x lunch, But I love to eat lunch with my husband and, besides, I STANDARD JOEE No, 4180-M always need him to do several errands for me in the after- “LOOK HERE, SOL, HADN'T YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS BEING noon. THE PATRICK'S DAY NUMBER?” I think errands are so uninteresting and try “sure.” . L. Blanch “WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK you're DOING HERE?” ng. Simpson “UM CARRYING A LINE OF GREEN Goons.” Acute Angling USBAND (describing fishing trip): And he fought for DITH: S Etnet: No, we put a new valve on the radi you didn't go South? half an hour before I lar Wire. (sympathetically) : W d him! at a nuisance! “NOW, I MUST BE THE MAID, AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE SICK, SO 1 GO TO THE MATINEE.” comicbooks.com