Life — June 4, 1925 — page 29: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a four-panel comic strip titled "Skippy" showing a child's bedtime routine. The sequence depicts: 1. **Top left**: Child in bed, appearing to settle down 2. **Top right**: Child now awake, looking at something (possibly a toy airplane on the bedpost) 3. **Bottom left**: Child playing on the floor with toys/blocks, labeled "Skippy" 4. **Bottom right**: An adult (likely a parent) scolding the child in bed with the caption: "COME NOW, GOD, THIS IS NO TIME FOR JOKING" The humor targets parental frustration with bedtime resistance. The child keeps finding reasons to avoid sleep—first distraction, then active play—prompting the exasperated parent to invoke divine assistance, treating the child's behavior as a cosmic joke rather than genuine disobedience. This reflects early 20th-century domestic comedy about childhood misbehavior.