Life, 1927-06-23 · page 12 of 38
Life — June 23, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two satirical pieces mocking educational and marital expectations of the era. The main cartoon shows a man at dinner rejecting "another calory [sic]" while his wife serves him. The accompanying text "Including Ballistics" lists absurdly comprehensive college subjects he supposedly studied (astronomy, chemistry, French, etc.), while sarcastically noting he can only discuss football—suggesting educated men often retain nothing practical from their studies. The second piece, "As Interpreted," mocks a newlywed husband who abandons his Methodist bride after only two months to attend a conference, claiming she shouldn't mind because she "played golf, dear." The satire critiques both male self-centeredness in marriage and women's limited autonomy—she's presented as property whose interests can be dismissed. Both pieces reflect early 20th-century gender dynamics and class anxieties about education and domesticity.
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**No, no, Fifi — not another calory to-day.” Including Ballistics MPLOYER: What did you study in college? Appticant: Astronomy, political science, history, Spanish, calculus, Greek, economics, chemistry, French, physics, trigonometry, Italian, busi- ness law, biology, solid geometry and several other subjects that for the moment escape my memory. Empoyer: And what did you spe- cialize in? Appuicant: Football. Emptoyrr: Come to work Mon- day. HE real millennium will come when the pedestrian and the mo- torist shall lie down together. As Interpreted A DAUGH7TER of a big business man married a young Methodist preacher after a brief courtship. They had been married only two months when he told her that he would have to go to a nearby city in a few weeks to attend the Confer ence. She said in surprise: “I didn't know that you played golf, dear.” comicbooks.com +—