Life — December 29, 1927 — page 17: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains six separate satirical comics addressing early 20th-century social issues: 1. **Automobile Safety**: A society field committee distributes free wool blankets to address automobile accident injuries. 2. **Julius Caesar's Telephone Pad**: A map-style cartoon showing Caesar's conquests labeled as if territories on a phone directory—satirizing imperial ambition through modern communication metaphor. 3. **Crime Note**: A Chicago billiard player is arrested for putting English on a ball—wordplay on "English" (pool technique) versus literal meaning. 4. **Beauty Surgery**: A doctor offers to make a woman's nose "saucy." 5. **Mother and Child**: A domestic joke about leg exposure and propriety. 6. **Two Mothers**: A conversation about daughters' evening activities, with one mother threatening future disclosure. These comics satirize contemporary anxieties about technology, crime, beauty standards, and changing social morality.