Life, 1929-06-21 · page 12 of 40
Life — June 21, 1929 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines social commentary with humor about early 20th-century attitudes toward women and prohibition. **Top cartoons**: Show a man photographing children at play, contrasting "simple" Sunday family activities with more chaotic modern behavior—likely satirizing changing social norms. **"Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers"**: A series of quotes from prominent figures (Bernard MacFadden, John Gilbert, Alice White, etc.) expressing opinions on gender roles, women's work, and prohibition. The quotes reveal period attitudes: women should stay home, prohibition is beneficial, and competitive women are problematic. **Bottom cartoon**: An insurance agent tells a man his secretary has been fired eleven times—satirizing workplace instability, possibly reflecting on women entering the workforce. The page overall satirizes contemporary debates about gender, domesticity, and social policy during the prohibition era.
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Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers I am just a boy grown up. —Bernarr Macfadden. Even if a Clara Bow constitutes the ideal companion of the cabaret, a film ‘actor, after all, is only human, and it is not unlikely—if he allows his better judgment to guide him—that he will choose a staid and placid life- mate, well versed in the culinary arts. —John Gilbert. Snapping a Sunday afternoon family group used to be very simple, but— I adore men, I don’t understand women—that is, when they are in the competitive class, I mean by that, whom I could really chum around with. And I'd rather be with people I do understand, and who understand me, and I'm afraid they are always men. I don’t mean to be catty either. —Alice White. Personally, I think that most women would rather stay at home than go to work every day. —Rosita Forbes. Prohibition is a godsend to this country. —Captain Robert Dollar. Wet propagandists are afraid to give prohibition its chance by allowing it to be enforced. —F. Scott McBride. I am not cold and icy. —Charles Evans Hughes. “And then I knew I didn’t like him at all, because I hate a faker.” —Joan Lowell. Insurance Acent: | never saw such per sistencel Your secretary has thrown me out eleven times. comicbooks.com