Life — October 25, 1929 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 7 **Top Cartoon:** A lawyer asks a client why he wants a divorce; the client replies he's considering remarrying instead. The joke mocks the impulsiveness of romantic decisions—the man hasn't even finalized his first marriage's dissolution before contemplating another. **"Scott Shots" Column:** W.W. Scott's witty observations about wealth, romantic prospects, bootleggers, and motorists. Notable: references to bootleggers and "gallons to the quart" allude to Prohibition-era illegal alcohol trade and measurement deception—indicating this is from the 1920s Prohibition period. **Bottom Cartoon:** A man in shabby clothes asks a bartender what he should drink, identifying himself as "a Princeton man"—satirizing educated, wealthy men reduced to poverty, likely due to economic hardship or Prohibition's effects on their social standing.