Life, 1926-02-11 · page 14 of 40
Life — February 11, 1926 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top illustration satirizes early 1890s honeymoon photography. A photographer with a large camera captures a couple posing stiffly indoors while their relatives observe—mocking the era's formal, staged portrait conventions and the tedious process of tin-typing photographs for "folks back home." Below, the article "This Problem of Personnel" addresses a serious workplace issue: working girls (female factory/office workers) quitting jobs after marriage. The text notes that husbands often discourage their wives from working, causing industrial turnover. It debates whether husbands should work year-round or just part-time to allow wives to maintain employment. The accompanying "Time Studies" section briefly mentions a woman named Sadie resisting constant interruptions during reading time—illustrating domestic tensions over women's autonomy.
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THE GAY NINETIES NO HONEYMOON OF THE EARLY NINETIES WAS COMPLETE UNTIL THE HAPPY PAIR HAD BEEN TIN-TYPED FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE FOLKS BACK HOME. This Problem of Personnel OTHING impairs the efficieney of a working girl as Some personnel experts say that the situation improves much sshand who lives beyond her means. Mar when the husband works modera! ! a first-l fetcria checker has collapsed under the strain months out of the year; others believe that the husband | of providing her husband with the same k of automobile of the average department-store sales-person will not furnished hy his former wife, who was, perhaps, a manicurist. function properly if he works more than two weeks in the or a waitress fifty-two. This does not allow for his vacation, of course. Of course, every man is entitled to a decent salary, pro- A minimum-wage law for working girls perhaps is the vided his wife can earn it; but, after some fellows have had best way of solving the problem. This may be difficult to | a few working girls for wives, they become spoiled. If draw because of a wide difference of opinion as to how their incomes do not improve with every few marriages much a husband needs per week. McCready Huston. \ | they may drop Many good men have been lost to 3 . | industrial domestic life in this way, men who were on the Time Studies ] threshold jounting to something as husbands of power “TS Sadie still doing her fifteen minutes’ reading every "i } sewing-machine operatives or usherettes. If industry is day? to continue its ard march itr find some way of she said she was tired of having to stop right in the reducing the turnover in working girls’ husbands middle of a sentence.” comicbooks.com