Life — July 26, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 7 This page contains three separate humorous cartoons and an article about criminal behavior and heredity. **Main Cartoon (top):** A truck driver warns a motorist that "if I see nurse, I'll tell her it's time for your bottle"—mocking the motorist's reckless driving as childish behavior. **Left Cartoon:** "The Sentimental Stonecutter Ands a Few Kisses for His Girl" depicts a gravestone carver kissing his girlfriend among tombstones—dark humor about his morbid profession. **Bottom Cartoons:** Two brief joke panels about church acoustics and an automatic fire sprinkler malfunction at a party. The accompanying article discusses theories about criminality, heredity, and environmental factors—typical early-20th-century pseudoscience attempting to explain human behavior through "glands" rather than morality.