Life, 1925-01-15 · page 12 of 36
Life — January 15, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a comic strip by the artist Skippy (signature visible) depicting a humorous domestic scene. Two working-class characters—apparently a father and son or uncle and nephew—discuss meals and household economics. The joke centers on food scarcity or budgeting constraints. One character boasts about elaborate dishes available at "our house" for supper (listing fancy items like cranberry sauce, pork chops, and cream puffs), while the other reveals their household only has stew. The final panel shows mock excitement over stew, suggesting the characters are making light of financial hardship through exaggeration and false bravado. The cartoon likely reflects post-WWI economic conditions when working-class families struggled with limited food budgets, using humor to cope with scarcity.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
TO HAVE OVER AT OUR Sooky: om, pie! We WHITTLE A COUPLE O° TITEM IN TIF TURKEY WID MASHED MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON, 1 GOTTA HAVE ME PIE 'N’ COPPRE OR I'D NEVER HOLD OUT TUM SUPPER. “WHAT D'YA TTAVE FOR SUPPER?” tuar’s TH AT OUR MOUSE, YES, SIR, Sooky: stew? on, poy! 1's ox—riat’s sweet! ER, NOW WE'LL START OFF WID A—EK-ER—WELL, YOU SEEN DELICATESSEN WINDERS, AIN'T CHA? Skippy: ’x’ Week 1 WAS GOIN’ TO ASK YA OVER TO MY HOUSE FOR LUNCH, DUT GER, WE ONLY GOT STEW. Skippy comicbooks.com