Life, 1927-07-07 · page 19 of 42
Life — July 7, 1927 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humor columns and a cartoon about domestic life and gender relations. The top cartoon shows a man (Mr. Perkins) breaking dishes while a woman watches in alarm—the caption jokes that he's destroying the household to prove his point to his wife Maria about something. "The Point of View" presents a woman's perspective on marriage, satirizing male attitudes. She describes a husband who wanted to be treated as a gentleman but proved incompetent and irresponsible, ultimately forcing her to manage everything while he complained. Below, a cartoon shows two women in bathing suits discussing a man's recent travels to the American West and South, with stereotypical observations about those regions. The page satirizes traditional gender roles, marital power dynamics, and male incompetence—common themes in early 20th-century Life magazine's social commentary.
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Mr. Perkins: ror pete’s SAKE, MARIA, HIT ME WITIL ONE, BEFORE YOU BREAK (Adam tells about it.) h, well, I suppose that's what you get for trying to be a gentleman and let the women do the back-seat driving, but next time I take a chance on losing the lease just to be polite I hope some body crowns me. She asked me to try out her apple preserves and tell her candidly what I thought of them, and said she wanted a frank opinion, and when I told her they weren't like Mother used to—I mean they weren't what I was accustomed to when I was a kid, she kicks up such a big hullabaloo that the neigh bors complain and here we are out on the side k sitting on the furniture at a time of year when there isn’t anything vacant for love or money, and——”" (Eve tells about it.) ss ell, I wouldn't marry him —W again if he was the first man on earth, and I hope he does leave me, because there are just as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. Gee, I won- der if there isn’t a real man somewhere for little me and not a wishy-washy namby- pamby that a wind around her little finger. If he'd only eaten the pre- serves when I told everything would be all right, but, no, he had to stall woman can him to EVERY DISH IN THE House! The Point of View (With a Genuflection of Regret to E. L. sround till the juice turned to hard cider and liquor oughtn’t ever touch a drop, I've t plenty of times, and no wo the animals sent word that didn't move, they would 1 man who can't hold his as, goodness knows, him The serpent tells about it.) “\V TELL, the scheme worked out all right, and it wasn’t such a plan, if I do dumb so as say ae) Ou! SOMETHING JUST BIT ME.” “WoRrRORS! Was IT A SHARK?" “1 DON’T KNOW—I-I FORGOT TO ASK.” Gordy) shouldn't lieve in modern improvements and all that sort of thi but this in- venting human » clutter up a lot of perfectly good jungleland was just plain flying in the face of Provi denee I'm progressive and be- No After this experience I'm ing to put out a sign announcing Homo Sapiens Allowed Tip Bliss A Little Chat with a Polished Man “Ww! LL, I've just returned from a long trip. Really ? “Yes, I've and South “Oh, really?" They say idge, but Really?" South is the been all over the West the West is for I don't believe it.” big question, Oh, really?" Yes, the solid South may” split “Really?” But I learned one trip, thing on my anyway.” Oh, ‘really >” Say, you give me ‘ay, 3 1 pain! “Heally? WW. Scott WOMAN is the company she has Z left. comicbooks.com