Life, 1929-04-12 · page 12 of 44
Life — April 12, 1929 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three cartoons satirizing domestic life and social anxieties of the era. The **top cartoon** shows a wife confronting her husband about buying an electric refrigerator and "poor gal" (likely a servant), suggesting tension over modern appliances and household staff employment. The **middle cartoon** depicts a nervous woman with her own car horn, satirizing women drivers as anxious and timid—a common stereotype when women began driving automobiles. The **bottom cartoon** shows a disheveled woman telling another "Ye Gods, Marie! I can't stand this. It makes me nervous!"—apparently referencing domestic exhaustion, possibly from housework or childcare. The right column contains philosophical quotes about women's roles, radio dangers, and marriage—reflecting period anxieties about modernity, female independence, and domestic life.
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HusBand: Well Nora, you would buy an electric refrigerator and the poor gal got lonely! Timid lady who always worries about reckless cab drivers, carries her own horn. “YeGods, Marie! I can’t stand this. It makes me nervous!” Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers The speakeasy man is of a much higher type than the old fashioned sa- loon keeper. —Heywood Broun. I cannot, under the limitations of my traditions, hit a woman on the nose. —lJoseph Hergesheimer. I do not know much about the radio business. I have been opposed to the bill and the commission ever since it started. I have noticed recently that there is a report that it is intended to put a radio in the Capitol; in fact, in this very room. Four years ago when I was here on the 4th day of March they brought into this Cham. ber the President and the President clect, the Vice-President and the Vice- President elect, the Congress of the United States, the Supreme Court judges—in fact, the whole Government was here present. I was thinking if we bring in that same group this year that it might be possible, if a radio is put up in this room, for some fel- low to destroy the whole American Government in one blow. —Senator Blease. It is a woman's function to take or- ders. —Beverley Nichols. I am advising my son to brush his teeth, work hard—and laugh his way up. . —Bruce Barton. A woman should never seck to be witty, for wit is something that has been denied to women.—A. B. See. When I say that I can add nothing to a reply I have already given, | mean IT can add nothing. —Sir Austin Chamberlin. There is nothing commonplace. —William Lyon Phelps. Many a rich man has envied some of his poorest employees who have nothing to worry about beyond the necessity of earning their salary. —Bernarr Macfadden. If a husband and wife are in love with each other they never bore each other, —Dorothy Dix. comicbooks.com a