Life — October 6, 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 6 of Life Magazine: Satirical Commentary on Domestic Life This page contains three separate pieces of humor commentary: **Top illustration:** Shows a couple with the caption "How do you keep your children in at night? I have an enclosed car." This satirizes how automobiles—then still relatively new—were becoming popular venues for young people's unsupervised dating and socializing, alarming parents. **"More Reasons":** A poem by Gene Bromme listing why he loves someone, humorously emphasizing their *lack* of pretension—never attempting fancy clothing, never knocking on doors loudly, never being overly familiar. It's gentle mockery of ordinary, unpretentious affection. **"Some Relic":** A cartoon dialogue between an antique dealer and customer about a chair allegedly belonging to Julius Caesar, with the dealer later claiming it came from a Chamber of Commerce. This satirizes both dubious antique authentication and boosterism.