Life, 1929-03-01 · page 15 of 36
Life — March 1, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon depicts a domestic scene where a man reads while a woman relaxes—both appearing content. The caption satirizes this as "The married models, who have been smiling all day in photographic advertisements, settle down to an evening of peace." This mocks advertising culture of the era, which presented idealized domestic scenes featuring models. The joke suggests these picture-perfect moments were artificial performances for commercial purposes, contrasting the staged happiness with actual married life. The lower cartoon shows a portly man in an armchair reading, with a dog at his feet, captioned about candy—likely a humorous domestic complaint about a wife's nagging or domestic demands. The page combines these visual jokes with various philosophical quotes about marriage, romance, and human nature, reflecting Life's satirical approach to American social conventions.
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The married models, who have been smiling all day in photographic advertisements, settle down to an evening of peace. Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers I see nothing in the life of a rich man which the workman need envy. St. John Ervine. The British are so romantic. Elsie Janis. The theatre I'd like to see, the theatre that would have the intellectual and physical equipment necessary to justify the ways of the machine to me, would combine the qualities of high mass and a prizefight, of a vaudeville bill and a Communist meeting in Madison Square Garden. John Dos Passos. What, I ask myself, could a wife do for me? Beverley Nichols. Marriage is a normal development of life. Helen Wills. \rt is true democracy in its very esence. Otto H. Kahn. Even a dog fight has its elements of excitement—as well as its lessons. George Matthew Adams. Spiritualism is infinitely more im- portant than politics. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. What every boy and girl does not know nowadays is not much. William Lyon Phelps, “This gets 'm ev'ry time! 13 Some Suggestions On Taxation The government could get a lot of revenue by taxing people’s speech. The part in the Constitution about free speech would have to be amended, but the American people like to amend the Constitution. It gives them a feel- ing of freedom and power. The next thing would be to get Mr. Edison to invent a speechometer. He could do that easily. A speechometer should be in every home, or better still each person twenty-one and over could be required (by law) to wear one. The same officers that enforce prohibition could enforce it, so there would not be any additional expense to the government. Besides being a source of revenue it would have a restraining effect on in- surance agents, salesmen, after dinner speakers, politicians, actors, radio an- nouncers, columnists, natives of Cali- fornia and women. Arsie Wood. Then there was the amateur yachts- man who luffed to make boom boom. See if I don't get a piece of that candy.” comicbooks.com