Life, 1927-01-20 · page 5 of 34
Life — January 20, 1927 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains several humor pieces targeting early 20th-century domestic life and social attitudes. **"The Head of the House Goes Crazy"** satirizes a husband's frustration with household expenses. He complains about his wife's spending on luxuries (a new sedan, life insurance, dental work, Armenian relief contributions, and a lacrosse team) while he struggles with taxes and mortgage payments. The joke reflects anxieties about wives' expanding consumer power and charitable involvement during a period of economic uncertainty. **"Speaking of Religion"** is a dialogue mocking women's religiosity as superficial—attending church for comfort rather than genuine belief, finding hymns "pretty," and struggling to understand theological concepts like modernism versus fundamentalism. The other brief humor pieces ("Illegal," "What's the Idea?", "Tempo") appear to be short jokes about nightclubs, household appliances, and dating customs, typical of *Life's* satirical approach to contemporary social behavior.
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Hadame Yonsor— I Ladies Physical \ Speaking of Religion Cuclblicre Gurlors H E: Don’t you think women are usually more religious than men? Exetecses. B Zhsek | aor Yes, I suppose so. You see more women in v7 nt OV AMLEINTIVENT He: Yes, women are really more spiritual, I suppose. Sue: Don't you think religion is a very good thing? He: Yes, of course. You couldn't get along without some religion, I suppose. Sue: It is sort of comforting to go to church, don’t you think? He: Yes, I suppose it must be. I think some of the hymns pretty. Yes, they are sort of pretty > of them. What is all this stuff about modernists and fundamentalists? He: Well —er—the modernists are the moderns, you see, and the fundamentalists are the —er— well, they believe in the Garden of Eden business and all that sort of thing, you see. Sue: Oh, yes—I see. I think it’s sort of hard to believe in the Garden “den business, don’t you? : Yes—sort of. There's a lot of stuff I've never understood about religion. He: Yes, there's a lot of stuff that's kind of hard to understand. Sue: But don’t you think re- ligion is really a very good thing? He: Yes, of course. You couldn't get along without some religion, I F gott suppose, t wat The Head of the House Goes Crazy—and How! ote BP “YYOULDN’T it be lovely to I'll renew that note for another year A oie V have a nice big new sedan at « her rate of interest wouldn't What’s the Idea? foreis B like the Zolches have just bought it be divine to go abroad next sum- F your stove seems “fyr-pruf” and ont and you really ought to take out mer with antique ladder-back chairs the “koal’ won't burn, be a SP oore life insurance because we've for caster and all “pepster,” “laff it pack to owed that dentist two hundred dol- income tax reports off,” go to your Daves Bi lars since we all must plug for our must be filed by “naborhood” store seal dear old Alma Mater and contribute midnight to - mor- of mar Or share in sending the lacrosse row.” cordd team around the world so that this R. L. home at 13. pails instalment on the vacuum a trolley-car that ic? Bcleaner is due and we haven't paid is daily f last month's rent only a few dollars Illegal the “kids” “?HAT’s WHERE MY WIFE SPENDS HALF HER TIME.” “WHAT For?” “‘sur’s GETTING A CUSTOM BODY.” Lloyd Mayer. vill keep an entire Armenian family “Wat's Big laws of in new phonograph records we for- Jake,the undefiled t Aunt Minnie last Christmas and night club man, so frieze of “ads”! tomorrow is her birthday why don’t mad about?” you pay the tailor what you owe “Raided out of him and then you can order some his turn.” oo! a new clothes to get slip covers for the The Poet: my LOVE FOR YOU, DEAR, UB: What'll overstuffed furniture and I can’t go OME = fellows 18 AS ENDURING AS THE STARS, AS we do? . en keeping house unless I have an couldn’t even INFINITE AS NIGHT, AS... Dus: Let’s get lectrie icebox but Junior simply tell the truth ina She: on, Quit TALKING sHoP, up carly and go to must start his piano lessons again “diary. HARRY, AND GET DOWN TO CasEs. a night club. Tempo comicbooks.com